Discipleship
Week of Prayer 2021: Breathe Together
The gift of God’s amazing grace is boundless, both in its beauty and its many dimensions. In our 2020 Week of Prayer guide, incarcerated students from North Park Theological Seminary’s School of Restorative Arts program inspire us to freshly encounter and receive God’s grace.
Week of Prayer 2019: Crushed Olives, Enduring Light
This resource invites us to practice prayer, especially during seasons that may feel crushing. Through these devotionals, we will know more about men and women of the Bible whose lives were transformed in a purification process when they were crushed through the press of life’s difficult situations such as loneliness, abandonment, disease, injustice, and betrayal, when only faith was able to take them forward.
Immerse: The Covenant Bible Reading Experience
Immerse: The Reading Bible is a six-volume, specially-formatted Bible created with one goal in mind: to provide the best Bible reading experience possible. By reading together twice a year, you
r church can read through all six volumes—the entire Bible—in three years. Then, start again! With Immerse, you can make the Bible central to your church’s identity and life together.
Unite Curriculum
The Unite curriculum is a way for your whole church to join a journey of discipleship around five specific biblical purposes: strengthening and being the church, our call to be disciples, loving mercy and doing justice, serving globally, and being servant leaders. This six-week journey focuses on our CHIC theme of “unite.”
Week of Prayer 2020: Reconciling Grace
The gift of God’s amazing grace is boundless, both in its beauty and its many dimensions. In our 2020 Week of Prayer guide, incarcerated students from North Park Theological Seminary’s School of Restorative Arts program inspire us to freshly encounter and receive God’s grace.
Week of Prayer 2018: Like a Tree Planted by Streams of Water
This resource invites us to practice prayer in ordinary life. We are called to pray without ceasing, but in today’s hurried life this is difficult. Lauren helps us to see ways we can pray focused prayers as we go about our daily and weekly routines. Allow your daily encounters with water to bring prayers of justice, liberation, baptism, life, faith, and hearing from God into your daily routine.
Kids Helping Kids
Through the Kids Helping Kids resource, children will learn from and be inspired by children from around the world. The following resource shares stories from children who are involved in caring for God’s creation through Covenant partnerships. Kids Helping Kids enables us to partner with children on their spiritual journey to: • fulfill Christ’s commandment…
Week of Prayer 2017: Bearing Fruit in Prayer (Galatians 5:22-23)
This resource invites us to focus on bearing fruit in Christ’s Spirit through prayer. By faith we receive these virtues, but it is through prayer that we develop the ability to live them out in our relationships.
Week of Prayer 2016: Praying Through the Creation Story
The ways people pursue God, or even pray, can be as different as the very people who pursue God. This guide for a week of prayer focuses on the pathway of nature as a conduit into the presence and praise of God.
CRECER (Growing Deeper Practices)
Ready to go deeper? Spiritual practices have long been a way for us to be first “in God” so we might go further in mission. While all include a reflective dimension, all are also active. They are meant to help us be attentive to God’s loving and abiding presence and to find within this space…