Aug2023
Rethinking faith formation
What does it mean to form faith in children and youth? What seems to work best and why? Is your congregation looking to rethink your ministry to children and youth?
Aug2023
Messages of Hope for prayer and parenting
During the Season of Prayer, all are encouraged to participate in actively praying for the church. How do you pray? Do you struggle to find the right words or seek to hear God in your prayers?
Aug2023
The annual Local Mission appeal is coming
This year’s Local Mission appeal focuses on developing our young adults in faith and leadership. Your donation will help us find and support the young adults in our midst, like Elsa and Joel, whom God is calling into service in the church.
Aug2023
Learn more about prayer with GIFT Prayer resource
Are you looking for ways to encourage others to get involved in prayer? Looking for ideas on how to pray? Or ways to teach prayer to children? The Grow Ministries GIFT Prayer resource offers resources to help us learn about the importance of prayer in our Christian lives.
Jul2023
‘United, lifted up and encouraged’
by Kate Traeger
Kate Traeger shares her experience of the LCANZ’s first churchwide Season of Prayer for church planting in 2019.
Jul2023
Dwelling in God’s word: mission-shaped prayer
by Jacob Traeger
One theologian has described mission as being caught up in the ‘heartbeat of God’. One of the most important ways in which we’re drawn into God’s heartbeat is prayer.