Create Meaningful Worship Experiences with Children
Are you passionate about making worship more engaging, meaningful, and welcoming with children?
Do you want to create a space where children both participate in worship and grow in their faith?
If so, the Making Meaning Together (MMT) Initiative is an opportunity you won’t want to miss!
Children’s voices, prayers, and presence enrich our worship communities in profound ways.
As a church leader, pastor, or layperson, through the MMT initiative, you will have the opportunity to create spaces
where children experience God's guiding presence that informs and shapes their faith and leads them to action.
Why Should You Join the MMT Initiative?
MMT is an initiative of the Rio Texas and Michigan Conferences to equip churches with the tools and resources needed to nurture children in worship and prayer practices. Through this initiative, churches will transform their worship spaces into environments where children feel valued, included, and spiritually engaged. Read the press releases shared about this grant funded initiative here: Rio Texas press release, Michigan press release.
Churches selected through the application process will receive seed money to help implement creative and intentional ways to include children in worship. We estimate space for 60 churches from the Rio Texas and Michigan Conferences to receive seed money to create their own project. This funding empowers churches to explore how and why children’s participation is vital to their spiritual growth while providing the support needed to bring their vision to life.
What You Can Expect?
The MMT initiative is guided by experienced leaders, Rev. Kathy Pittenger (Michigan Conference) and Rev. Dr. Tanya Campen (Rio Texas Conference), who are passionate about helping churches create vibrant, child-centered worship experiences.
Through the MMT initiative, your church will:
Listen to children’s wisdom and feedback about their current experience in worship through interviews or focus groups. Children understand and experience God in worship. As we listen to and honor children, we lean into wonder, imagination, play, and creativity.
Develop leaders through training and cohorts to empower leaders to intentionally design intergenerational worship that honor and include children.
Create new possibilities by gaining access to seed funding to create and implement a project that will be unique to your context that prioritizes and celebrates children’s participation and leadership in worship.
Join Us for an Informational Gathering
To help you learn more and ask questions, we are offering
two online informational sessions via Zoom:
Monday, May 5th
at 12:00 PM CST / 1:00 PM EST.
Tuesday, May 13th
at 6:30 PM CST / 7:30 PM EST
About the Application Process:
The application is a two-step process:
Step 1: Initial inquiry and collection of information. (Now open! Apply today!)
Step 2: More information will be available at the end of May.
We’re excited to partner with churches like yours that are eager to make a lasting impact on integrating children into corporate worship.
Whether you’re already taking steps to engage children in worship or just beginning to explore the possibilities, MMT provides the resources and support you need to make worship a more inclusive and meaningful experience for all.
If you have any questions about the application process or the MMT initiative,
please contact Laura Schwarcz, Project Coordinator for MMT, at info@makingmeaningtogether.org