Faith Formation in Vital Congregations

Faith Formation in Vital Congregations provides a framework for ordained or lay pastors; professional church educators; family life coordinators; educational ministry volunteers; and committee, task force, or board members to provide strategies for preparing the way forward in adult Christian formation.

Plant has included: Think Pieces -short essays on particularly critical issues

Point in Time exercises designed to engage readers in processes that put their experience and contextual setting into dialogue with current theories and practices Strategies for developing ministries that spark, ignite, and sustain adult Christian formation, with examples to help illustrate the strategies Stories from the lives and ministries of individuals who put a human face on faith formation. People seeking faith and faithful responses in their lives within the world will be blessed when the tools in this book are put into action.