Growing Faith is not another national initiative, a project or an award process that a church is being asked to do!
Growing Faith is an exciting Adventure! Creating and offering opportunities to explore faith across all the generations, promoting a partnership between the three communities of church, school and home,
 So that it becomes second nature to include and value children, young people and their households in every aspect of our church life, for the formation of faith in the whole of life …...In essence it’s a way of thinking and doing that simply becomes our new “Normal”.
As we transition out of the current pandemic, we are being presented with a real opportunity to not simply just "Go back” but to re consider and re-prioritise our children and family's faith formation.
Watch video introduction from Dr Sarah Holmes
Be part of the next Growing Faith Focus group
Realising the pandemic had in fact highlighted a clear disconnect between church, school and home .A group of volunteer churches across the Diocese looking to consider how they could develop a new strategy, recently participated in a six month “Reflecting on Growing faith” focus group.
Consisting of a monthly zoom session, considering issues such as  uncovering the needs and opportunities within your own context and how to partner effectively with families. The sessions also offered a variety of speakers on pertinent topics, supporting resources, online surveys & other research tools, plus ongoing 1-1 support, combined with the benefits of supporting each other as a group.
Current members described it in this way:
“Doing this very intentionally helped us develop a clearer picture of what was going on in our own individual setting, which then enabled us to review and improve upon the ministry activities, identify our strengths, acknowledge the gaps and join the dots”. 
“The group was a great springboard to help churches reshape their ministries to be more effective in meeting the needs of the children and families in their local community”.
The mutual support was invaluable, and taking small but effective steps wasn’t so overwhelming it has helped us to move forward far easier “
Our free downloadable easy to use “Growing faith Adventure Toolkit” will also be available soon, it consists of fun interactive activities to listen to all the ages.Offers support and resources to enable you develop a strategy, better partnerships and become part of the Growing faith adventure!
If you would like to be part of the next” Reflecting on Growing Faith” focus group & attend the information session, or discover more about the free Toolkit contact Sue Mitchell or Dr Sarah Holmes