Adult faith Formation

1. Adult faith Formation Session 5: Adult Faith Formation Programing, Pathways & Playlists Certificate in Pastoral Ministry Course: Adult Faith Formation

2. Care in the desert of Lent • Lent is a time to learn to travel light, to clear the clutter from our crowded lives that we may listen and respond to that place within us where our deepest desires align with God’s desire. • Reflection: • What clutter do I need to release from my life? • How am I listening and responding to God’s desire for me? CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

3. ScripturePhilippians 2:1-11 • Imitating Christ’s Humility -Philippians 2:1-11 • 2 If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, 2 make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. 5 Let the same mind be in you that was[a] in Christ Jesus, CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

4. ScripturePhilippians 2:1-11 • 6 who, though he was in the form of God,    did not regard equality with God    as something to be exploited,7 but emptied himself,    taking the form of a slave,    being born in human likeness.And being found in human form,8   he humbled himself    and became obedient to the point of death—    even death on a cross. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

5. ScripturePhilippians 2:1-11 • 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him    and gave him the name    that is above every name,10 so that at the name of Jesus    every knee should bend,    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,11 and every tongue should confess    that Jesus Christ is Lord,    to the glory of God the Father. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

6. Richard Rohr: A Process of self-emptying [Jesus], though he was in the form of God, did not deem equality with God something to be grasped, Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave… -Phil. 2:6-7 CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

7. Sharing • What did you hear in the Scripture and/or in the reflection that • Touched you • Challenged you • Engaged your heart and mind • Gave you hope CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

8. Closing Prayer • Loving God, as we make our Lenten journey to new life, remain with us and guide us in the days ahead. • Help us to recognize and accept your constant care for us that we may listen and respond to that place within us where our deepest desires align with your desire. • We make this our prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

9. How to have the Perfect Meeting: Priya Parker and Beth Comstock As humans, we need to gather and connect. I've had moments where I leave meetings feeling energized, ready to take on challenges. But I've also left plenty of meetings feeling like we took so much time not reaching a solution or even a next step. So what makes the difference? CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

10. A pathway is a process for helping people discern where they are in their faith journey and to chart a path for faith growth—to get from where they are to a closer relationship with Jesus and a deeper practice of the Christian faith. People should be able to clearly understand where they are in their faith journey and their next steps in faith growth. They don’t have to do everything, they just need to do the one next thing.. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

11. A pathway is life-centered Reaching into every area of a person’s life: relationships, family life, life transitions, marriage, parenting, financial stewardship, spiritual formation, professional and work life, service to others, and more. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

12. A pathway is holistic incorporating the whole person: head, heart, and hands. • A way of the head(inform) demands a discipleship of faith seeking understanding and belief with personal conviction, sustained by study, reflecting, discerning and deciding, all toward spiritual wisdom for life. This requires that we educate people to know, understand, and embrace with personal conviction Christianity’s core belief and values. • A way of the heart(form) demands a discipleship of right relationships and right desires, community building, hospitality and inclusion, trust in god’s love, and prayer and worship. This requires that we foster growth in people’s identity through formation and the intentional socialization of Christian family and community. • A way of the hands (transform) demands a discipleship of love, justice, peace-making, simplicity, integrity, healing, and repentance. This requires that we foster in people an openness to a lifelong journey of conversion toward holiness and fullness of life for themselves and for the life of the world. • (See will there be faith: a new vision for educating and growing disciples. Thomas Groome, Harperone, 2011, pages 111-119). CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

13. A pathway Focuses on Faith Maturing The goal of a pathway is to develop disciples and promote faith growth. A pathway is created around the church’s vision of discipleship and mature faith—identifying characteristics of faith maturing that can be used for people to discern their faith journey and chart a path for growth. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

14. The Elephant, The Rider and the Path A Tale of Behavior Change CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

15. Designing a Pathways Model for Discipleship & Faith Growth 1. Identify a target audience(s): children and parents, adolescents, young adults, midlife adults, mature adults, older adults. 2. Describe the life stage and religious-spiritual characteristics of your target audience. 3. Identify how you will use the pathways model, for example: • Sacraments/milestones: Marriage, Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation, Beginning Church Faith Formation, etc. • RCIA, Evangelization, and new member processes • Gathered faith formation events and programming • Parenting meetings • Small groups: affinity groups, interest groups, bible study groups, • On-ramps where people in your church might start the discipleship journey CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

16. Designing a Pathways Model for Discipleship & Faith Growth 4. Develop the characteristics of faith growth you want to use in your pathways model. For example: • Option 1. Use characteristics of faith growth specific to the life stage (such as family faith practices) or the content of the event (such as preparing for confirmation) • Option 2. Use characteristics of maturing faith (see the “faith maturing characteristics” below) • Relationships with Jesus Christ • Living the Christian way of life - discipleship • Living with moral integrity • Learning and articulating the teachings of the Christian tradition • Praying and seeking spiritual growth • Studying and reading the bible • Engaging in service and mission to the world • Worshipping with the community CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

17. Designing a Pathways Model for Discipleship & Faith Growth 5. Develop a ‘discernment continuum” that gives people a way to reflect on their current growth, for example: • Inquiring---getting started---making progress---going deeper • How true is each statement for you: 1= not true from me , 3=somewhat true for me, 5=very true for me CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

18. Developing Playlists of Content and experiences • A faith formation playlist is a curated group of digital (online, video, audio, print) and gathered (church, home, small groups, etc.) faith forming experiences and resources that are tailored to the specific faith growth needs of people around a particular characteristic of faith maturing or theme/topic. Playlists are developed for each “stage” on the discernment continuum, such as Inquiring, Getting Started, Growing, Going Deeper. Each playlist provides a variety of ways for people to learn and grow in faith. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

19. Developing Playlists of Content and experiences • Pathway-Specific • Content and experiences are selected to address each pathway, for example resources for Inquiring, Getting Started, Growing, Going Deeper CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

20. Developing Playlists of Content and experiences • Utilize the Faith Forming Experiences in the Life of the Church • Sunday worship • Sacramental celebrations • Faith formation programming • Intergenerational and family programming • Service and justice ministries • Pastoral care • Church events and community life CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

21. Developing Playlists of Content and experiences • Provide a Variety of Settings or Environments for Faith Growth • Independent/Individualized • Mentored • Family / At Home • Small Group • Large Group • Intergenerational /Whole Church Community • Community and World CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

22. Developing Playlists of Content and experiences • Address the Ways People Learn (Multiple Intelligences) through a Variety of Activities • Verbal-linguistic (word / book smart) • Logical-mathematical (number / logic smart) • Visual-spatial (art / picture smart), • Bodily-kinesthetic (body / movement smart) • Musical-rhythmic (music / sound smart) • Naturalist (nature / environment smart) • Interpersonal (people / group smart), • Intrapersonal (self / introspection smart) CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

23. Developing Playlists of Content and experiences • Use a Variety of Methods • Read • Write • Engage in storytelling and create stories • Feature films, TV shows, videos • Converse with others • Create a media project or video • View or create art • View or take photographs • Watch or engage in drama • Listen to or create a podcast • Listen to or create music • Conduct a demonstration • Experience games, simulations, video games • Analyze or create a case study • Develop an apprenticeship or internship • Create an exhibit • Experience prayer and rituals • Take a field trip (e.g., churches, museums) • Participate in a mission trip • Engage in or create a service / action project • Keep a journal • Develop a mentor relationship • Experience events in the congregation CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

24. Developing Playlists of Content and experiences • Publish the Playlists on a digital platform and use social media for connection, interaction, and sharing learning reflections. You can add the playlists to your existing church website or create a website just for faith formation and link it to your church website. Examples of faith formation websites: www.SeasonsofAdultFaith.comand www.FamiliesattheCenter.com. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

25. Developing Playlists of Content and experiences • Building a website is made much easier today by the availability of online website builders that provide predesigned website templates, drag-and-drop features to create webpages, and hosting for the website. Three popular website builders to explore are Weebly(www.weebly.com), Wix (www.wix.com), and Squarespace (www.squarespace.com). All three have easy to use features and very reasonable subscription fees. For advanced users WordPress (http://wordpress.org) provides thousands of predesigned templates, lots of customization features, and ready-to-use apps. WordPress does require an understanding of web design and some programming ability. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

26. Developing Playlists of Content and experiences • Here are several suggestions for web usability to keep in mind as you design (from Steve Krug’s excellent and easy-to-use book Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Third Edition, Berkeley: New Riders, 2014). • Don’t make the user think—make web pages self-explanatory so the user hardly has any perceived effort to understand them, or example, clear choice of labels, clearly “clickable” items, simple search. • People generally don’t read web pages closely; they scan, so design for scanning rather than reading. • Create a clear visual hierarchy and menu system (main menu, submenus). • Make it very clear how to navigate the site, with clear “signposts” on all pages. • Omit needless words. • The home page needs the greatest design care to convey site identity and mission. • Promote user goodwill by making the typical tasks easy to do, make it easy to recover from errors, and avoid anything likely to irritate users. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

27. St. Theresa of Calcutta Parish Profile • Community of 3500 families; growing Hispanic community; parish is financially secure; has good facilities • A seasoned pastor who is committed to parishioner faith growth; delivers engaging homilies; generally liked by parishioners • A large professional parish staff (15 full-time and 6 part-time) that operate out of a Silo mentality (a number of staff run their ministry without a connection to other ministries or in regard to the needs of the total parish). • A well-developed Children’s Catechetical Program • A new youth minister with a well-established youth ministry program • A Catholic School is attached (has funding trouble) • RCIA program is robust; no other ongoing adult faith formation CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

28. Holy Name Parish Profile • Community of 1000 families; mostly Hispanic community; parish is financially insecure; has old facilities in need of repair/remodel • A first-time pastor who is zealous for the faith; delivers challenging homilies; parishioners are generally unsure of him • A small professional parish staff (3 full-time and 3 part-time) that are responsible for many ministries • A Children’s Catechetical Program that has undergone virtually no change in 10 years • A part-time youth minister hired with little or no training to develop a youth ministry program for a large population of poor Hispanic youth • No Catholic school attached • RCIA program is minimal; Cursillo retreats offered; small faith sharing groups meet in homes; parishioner and community outreach and support are critical but parish is struggling to provide CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

29. St. Anthony of Padua Parish Profile • Community of 10,000 families; mostly Anglo but with a growing Hispanic community; parish is financially well to do; has newish facilities; connected in the larger community • A very seasoned pastor who is well liked by parishioners; delivers engaging homilies; committed to the parish being an evangelizing force in the community (being and bringing the Good News to others) • A large professional parish staff (25 full-time and 20 part-time) that are responsible for particular ministries of the Church. The pastor meets regularly with a senior leadership team. The senior leadership team meets with parish staff under their responsibility • A huge Children’s Catechetical Program in English and in Spanish • A strong youth ministry program • No Catholic school attached • RCIA program is year round; Alpha evangelization outreach is strong; small faith sharing groups meet in homes; parishioner and community outreach and support are growing CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

30. 10 Guides for developing aFF programming that reflects current research and practice in adult learning 1. Focus on the life tasks, needs, interests, and spiritual and faith journeys of each season of adulthood. 2. Target the spiritual and religious diversity of adults. 3. Offer a wide variety of programming to address the diversity of adults’ lives. 4. Use multiple environments for programming. 5. Enhance participation in programming by building on adult motivation and principles for effective adult learning. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

31. 10 Guides for developing aFF programming that reflects current research and practice in adult learning 6. Design online and digitally enabled strategies into all programming. 7. Develop programming around the essential eight faith-forming processes. 8. Incorporate intergenerational programming into adult faith formation. 9. Address the needs of families in each season of adulthood. 10. Design missional initiatives to reach the spiritual but not religious and the unaffiliated. CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

32. Conclusion • In this course: • How much of your learning was self-directed? • How were your life experiences and knowledge engaged? • How did this course connect with your goals (personal, faith, career) • How relevant was the content we covered? Was it clear to you why we were learning about the content presented? • How have you been able to apply new knowledge and skills to your life, ministry? • Give some examples of how you were shown respect CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

33. Ten Principles of Servant Leadershipby Robert Greenleaf • Listening - listen receptively to what is being said (and not said) • Empathy - put yourself in the shoes of the other person • Healing – desire to be compassionate • Awareness – tune in to what is happening around you • Persuasive – build consensus. Convince vs. coerce compliance CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

34. Ten Principles of Servant Leadershipby Robert Greenleaf 6. Conceptualize – conceive a desirable vision, then lead in that direction 7. Foresight – look into the future and anticipate the likely impact of current decisions 8.Stewardship – acknowledge and care for God’s gifts 9. Cultivate Followers– help followers grow beyond their current skill levels 10. Build Community – create a deeper desire for belonging, a bond that goes beyond a traditional organization CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

35. Servant leadership invites us to Lead Like Jesus What followers look for in leaders: • Trust • Compassion • Stability • Hope CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

36. Vision of Pastoral Ministry: Communion At the heart of the vision for pastoral ministry is that our God is fundamentally relational: A loving communion of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. ‘At the heart of the divine act of creation is the divine desire to make room for created persons in the communion of the uncreated Persons of the Blessed Trinity through adoptive participation in Christ. (from Co-Workers in the Vineyard) CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

37. Overtime • Organizing for Adult Faith Formation • ArchDiocese of Cincinnati • http://www.catholiccincinnati.org/ministries-offices/evangelization-and-catechesis/adult-faith-formation/organizing-for-the-faith-formation-of-adults/ • Milestones Ministry https://milestonesministry.org/adult-milestones/ • Curated Faith Formation Resources https://www.lifelongfaith.com/curated-resources.html • Adult Faith Formation https://www.lifelongfaith.com/adult-faith-formation.html CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

38. Overtime • Research and show the terrain of AFF • USCCB website OHWB • http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/catechesis/adult-faith-formation/our-hearts.cfm • Archdiocese of Atlanta • https://archatl.com/pastoral-plan/knowing-our-faith/stages-family-growth-life-cycle/ • United Methodist Church on adult faith • https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/commentary-getting-serious-about-adult-faith-formation CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation

39. Overtime • Research and show the terrain of AFF • Nextchurch • https://nextchurch.net/three-models-intergenerational-faith-formation/ • Intergenerational faith • https://www.buildfaith.org/intergenerational-faith-formation-three-models/#gref • Messy Church • https://www.messychurch.org.uk/ • Life Tree Cafe • https://lifetreecafe.com/ • Journey on Canvas (faith autobiography) • http://www.journeyoncanvas.com/ CPM – Adult Faith Formation Session 3: Organizing Adult Faith Formation