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Ideas for Ministry

TaylorTroutmanFaculty members, students and graduates of  Union Presbyterian Seminary will post short articles here on how to use children and youth books in a variety of settings, as well as  bibliographies on themes of particular interest in the lives of children and youth.  In addition, we will occasionally invite readers to share what they are doing with books in their own contexts – be it church or home or anywhere else!

If you have bibliographies you would like to request, or want more ideas about such things as how to use books in the home, in intergenerational settings, or one on one with a child, please let us know by clicking on the Contact Us tab on the home page and sending a request.

Writing Your Own Lectionary Links: Finding Books

04 May 2020, 2 Comments
On Friday, we shared the approaches that a few of our Lectionary Links writers have used as they have shared their connections between Scripture and books for our Links posts. We began with Scripture and gathering themes or ideas that speak to you and those with whom you’ll share...

Writing Your Own Lectionary Links: Engaging Scripture

01 May 2020, Comment are Off
For more than 10 years, we’ve had wonderful writers who have shared their love of books and the Bible through the writing of our Narrative and Revised Common Lectionary Links.  To help you as we transition to a searchable archive with no new content, several of them agreed...

Today is a Baptism Day

10 September 2018, Comment are Off
We are happy to welcome back and celebrate with Storypath guest author Anna V. Ostenso Moore as she shares ways to use her new book that is being published on September 15, 2018. One of the joys of my ministry is working with people of all ages preparing for baptism. When I...

BIBLIOGRAPHY: WORSHIPING TOGETHER

01 August 2016, 7 Comments
The basic underpinnings of Christian worship include statements or ideas that we want every children to be able to express:  I love you and I am loved, I’m sorry, thank you, I have gifts to use in my community. When children participate in prayers of confession, when they...

Bibliography: Children and Stewardship

20 October 2015, 2 Comments
In many congregations, fall is a time when a specific emphasis on stewardship begins.  Although almost always tied to encouraging financial gifts to support God’s work in a particular setting, stewardship is best understand as our faithful and grateful response to...

Literature Circle Guide: Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society

17 March 2015, Comment are Off
The most recent class of students in the Theology and Children’s and Youth Literature class developed some literature circle guides based on particular books.  If you are unfamiliar with literature circles, you might want to read this article by Dr. Pamela Mitchell-Legg...

Lesson Plan: Doing the Word

03 February 2015, 2 Comments
Krista Lovell, Christian educator and book reviewer for Storypath, has developed a rich resource that can be used in a variety of ways to consider how we are engaged in living the Word as we engage in ministries of social justice. Whether as an intergenerational event, part of a...

Challenging Conversations: A Bibliography about Prejudice, Tolerance, and Diversity

07 January 2015, Comment are Off
We were contacted recently with a request for books that might help congregations with conversations around current events in Ferguson, New York, and other places where the justice system is affected by prejudice. We thought this was an interesting suggestion, and began thinking...

Space for God in Family Storytime

07 October 2014, Comment are Off
As I was leaving church after a chaotically beautiful Christmas pageant rehearsal, a young father approached me. His family had joined Nativity within the past year. He was delighted to share that his shy four-year-old daughter had begun to end family storytime with her baby...
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