Projects
Initiatives for the next generation
With Drew Theological School, we are building resources that help congregations form faith with children, youth, and families.
Supported with generous funding from Lilly Endowment Inc.
Partnership for Family-Responsive Churches
A national resource hub for intergenerational faith formation with children and families.
The question
What do communities need to form faith across generations?
We are asking what resources, practices, relationships, and support structures inclusive congregations need to build vibrant intergenerational faith formation with children and families.
Many of these communities hold theological commitments that set them apart from the dominant frameworks in faith formation resources. We want to learn what translates from existing parenting and children’s worship initiatives, and what needs to be built new.
Our posture
A hub that curates and connects
Listen and map
Start with what exists
We map existing efforts so the hub strengthens good work already under way instead of duplicating it.
Curate and translate
Bring the best forward
We select and adapt the resources most relevant to inclusive communities, with clear paths to put them into practice.
Support practice
From reading to doing
Learning cohorts, webinars, training modules, and coaching help leaders implement what they learn.
Build with care
Thoughtful technology
Any digital tools we build, including AI-assisted ones, are designed with inclusive framing and real contexts in mind.
Partners
Drew Theological School hosts the grant. The initiative is supported with generous funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. Innovations Leadership serves as a partner organization.
Drew Theological SchoolProposal under review
Minding the Gap
An Attachment-Informed, Multicultural Approach for Congregations
A proposed five-year program helping middle school youth, high school youth, and young adults draw on the wisdom of Christian traditions to navigate AI companionship and digital technologies with discernment, faith, and joy.
Youth as co-researchers
Young people interview their peers and help interpret what they hear, shaping the program from the inside.
Attachment and multicultural theology
The framework draws on attachment theory and a wide range of theological voices to help congregations offer the relationships AI companionship cannot supply.
Evidence from within
Research and measurement run alongside the program across all five years, so what congregations learn is grounded in their own experience.
Led by Drew Theological School in partnership with Innovations Leadership, Discover and Grow, The New School, Dr. Kate Ott, and Search Institute.
Help shape this work.
We are listening to congregations and families now. Your community’s experience can inform what we build.