Family Resources
Home is the heart of faith formation, and most faith formation for young Friends takes place within the family in the busy swirl of daily life. The key is to be intentional and present to moments of spiritual deepening.
If you are raising children or planning programming for home spiritual nurture, you may appreciate these resources on spiritual practice in the home to support the journey with children. In addition to this collection of resource posts, please see the “Faith at Home” section for more resources and inspiration…
Resources for parents and nurturers
Conversation Circle Summary – Guiding the Guides: Supporting Spiritual Nurturers of Children and Youth in the Home
Guiding the Guides: Supporting Spiritual Nurturers of Children and Youth in the Home Welcome and Introductions Centering Silence Topic: Parents are children’s first and most important teachers. This is especially true for faith formation. Grounded,...
Quaker Parenting Initiative
The Quaker Parenting Initiative seeks to nurture parents on their spiritual journey as they strive to integrate principles of human development with their Quaker faith while living with and guiding their children. This website offers a rich array of resources for...
Paths to Quaker Parenting Using Quaker Beliefs, Testimonies, and Practices
Is there a distinctly Quaker way of child rearing? What in Quakerism speaks to how we guide and nurture our children and ourselves as parents? Paths to Quaker Parenting, is the outcome of a group of Quaker parents and grandparents who met for three years to share...
Curricula
Discovering Our Faith through Story and Play
Part one of the booklet contains the classic Quaker stories of George Fox, Elizabeth Fry, Stephen Grellet, William Pickett, Mary Fisher and John Woolman. Part two has stories of the experience of meeting for worship. The third part consists of two biblical...
Finding the Light in You: Bright Silent Worship with Young Friends
Finding the Light In You: Bright Silent Worship with Young Friends supportively guides the process of nurturing children's silent worship skills. Guided imagery, richly illustrated with color photos, provides a bridge from abstract adult silent worship to child-sized...
Sparkling Still Curriculum
A core Quaker curriculum for young children, Sparkling Still provides everything you need to create lessons for children ages 3 to 8 and build a classroom community. Topics include sense of self, family and community, the natural world, the Bible and Quakerism,...
Lesson plans for home
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