Carolyn C. Brown, Raising Children to Love Their Neighbors: Practical Resources for Congregations. Abingdon Press, 2008. Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Children’s Spiritual Formation Through Missional Engagement From the Publisher Does your congregation want to raise more mission-minded children? Here are practical plans with reproducible activities and outlines for classroom and service experiences
Jolene L Roehlkepartain, Teaching Kids to Care and Share: 300+ Mission and Service Ideas for Children. Abingdon Press, 2000. Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Children’s Spiritual Formation through Missional Engagement From the Publisher This volume provides over 300 inventive, hands-on activities that involve children in service to one another, their churches and local
Jenny Friedman, The Busy Family’s Guide to Volunteering: Do Good, Have Fun, Make a Difference as a Family. Robin’s Lane Press, 2003. Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Children’s Spiritual Formation Through Missional Enagement From the Publisher Volunteering is an important way to cultivate compassion, gratitude, and empathy in children and to bring families
Susan B. Vogt, Just Family Nights: 60 Activities to Keep Your Family Together in a World Falling Apart. Brethren Press, 1994. Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Children’s Spiritual Formation Through Missional Engagement LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is one of three books by Vogt that address how to raise children who will make a difference.
Susan B. Vogt, Kids Creating Circles of Peace. Parenting for Peace and Justice, 2000. Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Children’s Spiritual Formation Through Missional Engagement LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is one of three books by Vogt that address how to raise children who will make a difference. Two other works are Raising Kids Who
Susan B. Vogt, Raising Kids Who Will Make a Difference: Helping Your Family Live With Integrity, Value Simplicity, and Care for Others. Loyola Press, 2002. Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Children’s Spiritual Formation Through Missional Engagement LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is one of three books by Vogt that address how to raise children who
Jan Johnson, Growing Compassionate Kids: Helping Kids See Beyond Their Back Yard. Upper Room Books, 2001. Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Children’s Spiritual Formation Through Missional Engagement From the Publisher Open a new world of possibilities for your kids, where making a difference for others becomes a way of life! Growing Compassionate Kids
Randy White, Encounter God in the City: Onramps to Personal and Community Transformation. InterVarsity Press, 2006. Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Spirituality and Social Ministry LifeandLeadership.com Summary Randy White writes out of intense experience in urban ministry (see bio below), being the founder of Fresno Institute for Urban Leadership. This book makes a
John B. Hayes, Sub-merge: Living Deep in a Shallow World: Service, Justice, and Contemplation Among the World’s Poor. Regal Books, 2006. Referenced in: Social Ministry Among the Urban Poor, Urban Ministry LifeandLeadership.com Summary This volume expresses John Hayes’ passion for helping the poor and operates as his “manifesto, a prophetic call to join what God
Christopher L. Heuertz, Simple Spirituality: Learning to See God in a Broken World. IVP Books, 2007. Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Spirituality and Social Ministry LifeandLeadership.com Summary Spirituality among social activists often looks and feels less mystical and contemplative, and more active and engaged. This is true of Heuretz, a characteristic he shares
