Unit 2 of Teaching the Bible with Children, Youth and Families
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Service projects and mission trips are increasingly popular within households, congregations and youth groups. Yes, it feels good to serve! Yet, for service to lead to transformed, faith-filled lives, it needs to be informed and intentional. This unit offers approaches to Service and Learning as a way of life based on our call to serve our neighbor as Christ loved and served us. Participants will be engaged and equipped through hearing God’s story, presenters’ personal experiences, a theology for serving, research and examples of “how-to’s” and things “not-to-do.”
Are you wondering how to:
• Be God’s hands in restoring God’s world?
• Authentically connect households and the congregation with one’s neighbors, locally and globally?
• Lead effective service and mission experiences that engage children, teens and their care-givers with “the other,” encountering Jesus along the way?
• Equip all generations to know God’s story and to practice the Christian faith at home and in daily life?
This unit is for:
Anyone planning a mission trip or service project * Youth who want to make a difference * Youth & Family Leaders * Parents, Godparents or Grandparents * Faith Formation Coordinators * Christian Educators * Mentors * Book of Faith Advocates * Pastors * Mission Developers * Young Adults going into the world to serve * All caring adults * Companion Synod & Global Mission Teams.
Session 1. Who is My Neighbor? Accompaniment Locally and Globally
with Sunitha Mortha
Session 2. Cultivating Lives of Service and Compassion in the Home
with Marcia Bunge
Session 3. Engaging All Generations for Service and Learning
with Linda Staats
Session 4. Serve to Learn. Learn to Serve.
with Dave Ellingson and Mark Jackson
Session 5. Mission: More than a Trip
with Peggy Hahn
Session 6. Bonus: What Does the Research Tell Us about Service and Learning?
Conversations with Eugene Roehlkepartain, Search Institute
(Click on the Session 6 title to WATCH NOW!)
This course was created with the lay person in mind as well as the church professional. Each session is designed for 50-60 minutes of interaction: presentation of the subject, group conversation and reflection. Included are:
• A 20-25 minute video hosted and narrated by Linda Staats
• Comprehensive Study Guide for the Facilitator and Participant that enable the viewer to apply what they are viewing to their own ministry setting
• Extensive bibliography
Service and Learning: Introduction from Select Learning on Vimeo.
Study Guides: click on the titles below to download each section of the study guide.
![faith out loud: talking about what matters most (this product is dvd format. if you prefer streaming click here.) me? talk about my faith? this video offers hope for us tongue tied christians to identify the fact that we have a faith story and we have words for our experience of god. listen in on authentic and humble conversations as people were asked to talk about... your favorite passage in the bible [11:03] a time of suffering in which god made a difference [9:19] how god makes a difference in your daily life [11:25] an idea of god that you find meaningful [10:29] a person who made a difference in your faith [11:01] a time when you experienced grace [9:12] a time when god's people came through for you [9:42] a time when you were surprised by god [11:27] how god came alive in your life [11:41] a time when god felt present [9:23] a time when god felt absent [10:04] these eleven 10 minute video programs can be watched in any order, and serve to spark discussion and give permission to talk about our faith out loud. 2 disc dvd series with cdrom study guide.](/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Faith-Out-Loud_0.jpg)
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