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Coach and empower parents to form their children in faith.
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Growing Up Catholic
Faith Stories

​Story-based sessions for facilitated parish gatherings and/or at-home formation. Includes family activity booklets (for young children or ages 11-14), family retreats, and more. Three year cycle, 15 sessions per year.
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Growing Up Catholic Faith Activities

Each title in this eResource series includes dozens of short, faith-filled, catechetical activities. We include catechist lesson plans, activity pages, and editable, step-by-step parent instruction pages—all reproducible.
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Growing Up Catholic VBS
SIMPLE • FLEXIBLE • AFFORDABLE • CATHOLIC

  • New Great Big Beautiful World theme addresses creation care and the challenges highlighted in Laudato Si'.
  • Four total themes available for 2022, focused on the kerygma and other topics Pope Francis is asking us to focus on.
  • ​Free guide on how to do VBS well, even if it's your first time.
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Conversations about L.I.F.E.
Whole Family Safe Environment & Family Life​

Get families talking! Don't raise these issues without parents in the room. One engaging, age-specific session a year for which families will thank you. Only $1/child for a lifetime license!
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Experience the Saints
Activities for Multiple Intelligences

by Phyllis Vos Wezeman & Anna L. Liechty
  • Twelve diverse saints, grouped in four volumes
  • Eight activities per saint, each based on a different learning intelligence
  • Whole family and general classroom guides
  • Downloadable and reproducible​

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GROWING UP CATHOLIC
​Parent Conversations
​Designed to start spirited discussions on day-to-day parenting issues and how our faith can inform them.
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Tools for
Getting Started
Learn about the coaching parents approach and get an overview of all that we offer.
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Lessons & Activities for
Family Catechesis
Find out about this creative, flexible, powerful approach for intergenerational family learning.
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Baptism Preparation

Welcome, engage, evangelize, and accompany young parents, deepening their faith so they can start passing it on to their children.
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Whole Family
Sacramental Preparation
Explore our best-selling sessions for First Eucharist, First Reconciliation, and Confirmation in restored order.
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Resources for learning
The Joy of Love
Break open Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia​, on love and family life!
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Lessons & Activities for
Creation Care Kids
A mini-curriculum, music collection, classroom resources, and our EarthKeepers Vacation Bible School for teaching kids about Pope Francis' encyclical, On Care for Our Common Home.
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And more: take-home resources.
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Growing Up Catholic - Faith Formation that Lasts a Lifetime
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