AUCE-Recomended
Faith Formation Resources

If you have suggestions for resources that would benefit other UCC faith formation leaders throughout the US, please share them with us and we will add them here.

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*The AUCE Board of Directors reserves the right to decline submissions that do not comply with the mission and beliefs of the United Church of Christ.

Websites 

(some include curriculum materials; see below for the Curriculum Resources category)
 

• A Sanctified Art

• Faith in the home (Traci Smith)

• Faith Inkubators (resources for parents)

• Illustrated Ministry

• Keep Connected (for families from Search Institute)

• Lifelong Faith

• Messy Church

• Milestones Ministry

• Our Whole Lives (OWL) sexuality education

• Palestine Israel Network (UCC) - resources for children & youth

• Parenting Forward

• Picture the Bible

• Sticky Faith

• Storypath (children's book reviews and lesson suggestions)

• Workshop Rotation

• Worshiping with Children

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Blogs

• Building Faith (faith formation blog)

• reFocus Ministry (Christine Embree)

• Rows of Sharon (Sharon Ely Pearson)

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Curriculum Resources

• Messy Church

• Many thanks to the Southern New England Conference for their research on UCC-friendly curriculum materials

• Curriculum resource help from the Southern New England Conference

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Facebook Groups

• Association of United Church Educators (AUCE)

• Birthing Cross+Gen Community

• Hope4CE

• Progressive Youth Ministry

• Raising Children Unfundamentalist

• The Changing 21st Century Sunday School

• Unfundamentalist/Progressive Children's Ministry

• Parenting Forward

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Other Networking Communities

• Catalyst from Vibrant Faith - a free online community & resource center for faith formation leaders

Resources for AUCE Members

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Members of AUCE are granted access to a specially curated page of member-created resources.

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Lost your password?  Contact Lisa Hart to have it e-mailed to you.

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     Launched in January 2020, Vibrant Faith Catalyst is an online community and resource center for Christian leaders committed to transforming the way we envision and design faith formation for all ages in the 21st century. Vibrant Faith created Catalyst to build a community of Christian leaders who support, encourage, and challenge each other toward vital and vibrant faith formation in their churches, and to provide resources, tools, training, and enrichment to develop, sustain, and grow lifelong faith formation.

Joining Catalyst is free!