TAKING FAITH HOME
Bulletin Inserts
Looking for a way to
link Sunday worship with
family faith formation Monday to Saturday?
Wish you could help your congregation’s members and visitors
go deeper into the lectionary lessons each week?
Look no further.
The Youth & Family Institute now offers Taking Faith Home, a weekly bulletin insert based on the Four Keys, print ready, professionally designed, written by Pastor Greg Priebbenow of Australia … and very affordable.
With TAKING FAITH HOME, your congregation will have scripture readings, prayers, devotions and rituals to use all week!
$49.95 one-year subscription
It's just under $1.00 per week!
Bulletin inserts will be emailed on the 15th of each month for the upcoming month.
Order Here
Inserts will be emailed to you within 24-48 hours of ordering
or call 877-239-2492 to order
For more information or questions, email pmatthews@tyfi.org
What others are saying about TAKING FAITH HOME . . .
“I just wanted you to know how much my small congregation has enjoyed having the "Taking Faith Home" inserts for our bulletin. We are an inner city ministry where most of our congregation comes to us from a federal housing project across the street. Most of the families we serve are single mothers with children who live below the poverty level for the US. Several of the mothers have thanked me for the inserts. They are finding help in leading their children in a daily devotional life.”
Pastor, United Methodist Church, Nashville, Tennessee
“This resource is an incredible boost to our Christian Education ministry, our newly formed Passing on Faith Task Force, and to the goals we have at our church What you are doing is exactly where I am seeing a need - providing a tool to help families practice the Four Keys and Five Principles.”
Pastor, Lutheran Church, Chapin, South Carolina
I've been using your "Taking Faith Home" inserts for the last couple of months and my congregation loves them. Their use of them was confirmed for me when I went 'off-lectionary' and didn't include the Taking Faith Home insert. A number of people commented on missing the "little pink inserts".
Pastor, Lutheran Church, Porterville, California |
MAKE
TAKING FAITH HOME
A HABIT FOR YOUR
CONGREGATION
AND HOME!
Having a resource like Taking Faith Home is very encouraging to many pastors and congregations. However, the question is, "Is it being used at home? Is it making a difference in the lives of people?" Having a solid resource is not the same thing as using a solid resource. Seeing a TFH sheet as a bulletin insert, or in a pile for people to pick up as they leave worship, is not enough to create the desired habit of using TFH regularly. It needs to be handed to people. It needs to be used in group settings. It needs to be seen and used in congregational settings again and again and again if it is eventually going to be brought home and used. Here are some ways of creating a new habit of using TFH:
Individuals like pastors, other staff, and key lay leaders take the remaining supply of TFHs left over after Sunday worship services and redistribute them and use them with others during the week in the following settings:
- executive committee meetings
- task force and committee meetings
- while conducting hospital visits
- mission trips and other service groups
- Bible study classes
- Prayer groups
- Confirmation classes
- Pre-marriage sessions
- Any setting where faith can be discussed, prayed, lived, or celebrated
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Thoughts on introducing TAKING FAITH HOME to your congregation from Marilyn Sharpe
Here are some ways that I would introduce it to the congregation:
- On the first Sunday it is in your bulletin, have the pastor pull it out and announce its presence, tell why your congregation is choosing to subscribe, and describe what you'd like your congregational family to do with it all week, linking Sunday to the rest of the week, braiding faith into everyday life. Maybe read Deut. 6:4-7 and introduce TFH as one way to live that.
- On Sunday, in worship, during announcements (or, if it works to weave it into a sermon), have the pastor hold it up, invite members of the congregation to pull it out, hold it up and put it in a pocket, bag or purse. Then, challenge them to pull it out and use it with a family member, colleague or friend either Sunday or Monday and report back to the pastor about how they used it and how it went during the week.
- Use those stories in your newsletter, announcements, or from the pulpit.
- If your tradition is to share the peace, one Sunday (or, better yet, once a month or weekly for a while), have those worshipping with you pull it out and use one of the ideas for Caring Conversations to talk to one congregational "neighbor."
- Use the Taking Faith Home from the previous Sunday to do opening devotions and caring conversations at all of your congregational meetings and trainings. Light a candle on the table as your ritual, claiming Christ's presence as the Light of the World. Your work at meetings and trainings will be service.
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