Helping Families to be Rooted in Jesus: Beyond the Sunday Morning Box
Learn how to help parents to learn how to share and bring faith, God, and Jesus into their lives. Discussions include the different seasons of the church year and how families can grow together by using simple tools. Examples include Advent Take Home Kits, Jesus Doll and Home Kit, Journey to Bethlehem, Lent Home Kits, Easter Family Celebrations, Baptism Anniversary Celebrations and Rituals, Summer Church on the Go, and Spirituality of a child. Family-Church celebrations include Kindergarten Breakfasts, Fifth Grade Breakfasts, and more.
Audience: Children and Family Ministries
Presenter:
The Rev. Lauren A. Villemuer-Drenth is currently Director of Children’s Ministries at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem, NC. After her ordination in 2005, she worked with several parishes, dioceses and schools in multiple states to develop children, youth and family ministries. Prior to her ordination, she was a Pediatric Oncology-Hematology Registered Nurse and worked as a volunteer with children ministries. She and her husband, Henk, share five adult children, two grandchildren, a dog, and a passion for improving the lives of children (and their families).
Lauren Villemuer-Drenth
