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Multigenerational Faith Development
Midwest Leadership SchoolBeloit, Wisconsin
July 22, 2008
More Than Numbers
•Numerical Growth•Maturational Growth•Organic Growth•Incarnational Growth
Maturational Growth
This growth is in stature and maturity of each
member, growth in faith and the ability to nurture
and be nurtured.
Line
Infants
ChildrenYouth
Young Adults
AdultsElders
Circle
Infants
Children
Youth
Young Adults
Adults
Elders
Community
All persons, both children and adults, need
community.
Community
Children are like canaries in a coal mine.
Hardwired to Connect
We are hardwired for close attachments to other
people, beginning with our parents and extended
family, and then moving out to the broader community.
Hardwired to Connect
We are hardwired for meaning, born with a built-
in capacity and drive to search for purpose and reflect on life’s ultimate
ends.
Connected Community
It treats children as ends in themselves.
Connected Community
It is a social institution that includes children and youth.
Connected Community
It is warm and nurturing.
Connected Community
It establishes clear limits and expectations.
Connected Community
The core of its work is performed largely by non-specialists.
Connected Community
It is multi-generational.
Connected Community
It has a long-term focus.
Connected Community
It reflects and transmits a shared understanding of what it means
to be a good person.
Connected Community
It encourages spiritual and religious development.
Connected Community
It is philosophically oriented to the equal dignity of all persons and to the principle of love of neighbor.
Strategies
Strategies are used by those who have the time to reflect and make connections between the situation as it stands and the changes and outcomes desired.
Tactics
Tactics are the activities of people who have neither the luxury of time nor perhaps the benefit of a thoroughgoing look at the situation as a whole.
Lifespan Faith Development
Vision StatementWe envision children, youth, and adults who…
Vision Statement
affirm that they are part of a Unitarian Universalist religious heritage and
community of faith that has value and provides resources for living;
Vision Statement
know that they are lovable beings of infinite worth, imbued with powers of the soul, and
obligated to use their gifts, talents, and potentials in the service of life;
Vision Statement
accept that they are responsible for the stewardship and creative transformation of their religious heritage and community of
faith;
Vision Statementrealize that they are moral agents, capable of making a
difference in the lives of other people, challenging structures of social and political oppression, promoting
the health and wellbeing of the planet, acting in the service of diversity, justice and compassion;
Vision Statement
recognize the need for community, affirming the importance of families,
relationships and connections between and among the generations;
Vision Statement
appreciate the value of spiritual practice as a means of deepening faith and integrating
beliefs and values with everyday life;
Vision Statement
experience hope, joy, mystery, healing, and personal transformation
in the midst of life's challenges.