Coach and empower parents to form their children in faith.

We Are Growing!
Lilly Endowment Inc. has given us a $1.25 million grant, which is funding efforts to partner with dioceses, create an online training center, enhance our resources, and much more. Click the button on the right to view our new in-progress Growing Up Catholic website, which includes detailed information about our grant programs.

Two Resources to Make Eucharist Come Alive
Whether you are preparing children for First Eucharist or want to revive an appreciation for the Eucharist and Mass among all your families, these resources are the perfect solution. Plus, you can use them at the same time, and in the same events!

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.

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

  • Three themes available for 2024, 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.

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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Categories

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.