Faith Forward

Knowing how to nurture faith in young people is a challenge, particularly when we want to encourage a faith that is generous, innovative, and contextual. Faith Forward gathers 21 presentations from the 2012 "Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity" conference held in Washington, D.C., and makes them available for those in ministry with children and youth, pastors, parents, professors - anyone called to help young people on their journey of faith. Authors and attendees alike came from several countries and many denominational inflections. Likewise, the chapters express various contemporary takes on Christian faith and discipleship.

This book is a gold mine of information and inspiration for those seeking to engage children and youth in respectful conversation, exploration, and learning in today's complex world. If you are seeking grassroots, forward-thinking, ecumenical, innovative, and collaborative ways to do children and youth ministry, then this book provides the material to move you in that direction.

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Melvin Bray is founder and Director of Kid Cultivators, a missional youth development organization concerned with training youth and the adults in their lives in habits of sustainability (related to ecology, faith, art, etc.). He is a contributing author to The Audacity of Faith and coordinating author of The Stories in Which We Find Ourselves.

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David M. Csinos is founder and Executive Director of FaithForward, the organization spawned by the 2012 Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity conference. He is the auothor of Children's Ministry that Fits and co-author (with Ivy Beckwith) of Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus.