Coach and empower parents to form their children in faith.

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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Pandemic Family
​Faith Formation

7/21/20 webinar recorded for the Diocese of Joliet • 35 minute presentation followed by 15 minutes of Q & A

How can we be successful in catechesis this year with social distancing requirements and the unknown? What WON'T work this year and what can work? What approaches and resources are most likely to work with parents who aren't used to forming their own children?

Engaging Parents when Engaging Parents is Hard

5/8/20 webinar recorded for NCCL Witness • 50 minute presentation

This year, a pandemic has forced us into the Year of the Domestic Church, whether we liked it or not. The experience is highlighting just how important the role of parents is and how much work we still need to do to coach, equip, and engage parents to share faith with their children. In the video below, find out what we’re learning through our Worship@Home family-led Liturgy of the Word services and other at-home faith formation experiences. We’ll explore the difference between a monopoly model of ministry, a consumer model, and an accompanying model. Gain some fresh ideas for how to motivate parents starting in this time when we can’t meet normally... through to a new normal in which they are true partners in forming their own kids.

Looking for Family Catechesis during Social Distancing?

As the pandemic has forced us out of our comfort zones, it is time for us to seriously reflect. Now that we can't do catechesis "as usual," we need to be clear about what is most important. Whether you will use limited in-parish gatherings, online Zoom sessions, "homeschooling," or a combination, what do we hope to accomplish? 

If what we most care about is actually passing on the faith so children remain Catholic, the crucial ingredient is the parents. It's all about parent-child "faith talk" and interactions. Studies on Catholic disaffiliation keep pointing to this fact. We need to support parents where they are at, not where we wish they would be.

​THIS DOESN'T JUST HAPPEN. A flashy video or digital resource will not necessarily help. Parents need intentional coaching to help them step into the role of catechist. Our mission has been to thoughtfully and carefully create resources in which this coaching is baked in. Learn more below.

Growing Up Catholic VBS
SIMPLE • FLEXIBLE • AFFORDABLE • CATHOLIC

  • New Peace Lab theme addresses division, discrimination, nonviolence, and how to become an active peacemaker in the world. The perfect theme for racial justice!
  • New features for social distancing and virtual experiences.
  • ​Free guide: how to do VBS in a year of COVID-19.
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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!
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​
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.
Lessons & Activities for
Family Catechesis
Find out about this creative, flexible, powerful approach for intergenerational family learning.

Baptism Preparation

Welcome, engage, evangelize, and accompany young parents, deepening their faith so they can start passing it on to their children.
Whole Family
Sacramental Preparation
Explore our best-selling sessions for First Eucharist, First Reconciliation, and Confirmation in restored order.
Resources for learning
The Joy of Love
Break open Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia​, on love and family life!
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.
And more: take-home resources.