Staying In Touch
- Join our Facebook Group so you can stay in conversation with other adults working with young people in the Diocese of Mississippi!
- Join FORMA’s Facebook Group to be in conversation with adults working with young people all over the Episcopal Church!
Safe Church Info
*Our Youth Customary is currently under review and will be updated by the end of the year. Stay in touch to receive the updated version.
In the meantime, below is the model policy passed at General Convention in July 2018 that will guide the new policy our diocese accepts at Annual Council in 2019.
For information on Safeguarding God’s Children training, please contact The Rev. Canon Katie Bradshaw.
- Safeguarding God’s Children (on-line renewal start page)
Resources for…INSPIRATION
- Building Faith
- Center for the Ministry of Teaching at Virginia Theological Seminary
- Pinterest Boards to Follow: Center for Ministry · FORMA · DioMSYouth
Resources for…RESOURCES/MATERIALS
- FORMA (grassroots organization of formation ministers in the Episcopal Church)
- Center for Ministry of Teaching at VTS – Choosing Curriculum Resources
- Center for Ministry (VTS) Episcopal Children’s Curriculum (Free! Downloadable Curriculum)
- Church Publishing
- Lesson Plans that Work (Free! Lectionary Based Curriculum)
- Leader Resources
- Cokesbury (United Methodist)
- Group (Baptist)
- Augsburg Fortress/Spark House (ELCA)
- Creative Communications
- Oriental Trading
- Discount School Supply
- Liturgy Resource for Children
- Episcopal Relief and Development Resources for Children
Resources for…QUESTIONS!
- Nuts & Bolts of Starting a Children’s Church
- Classroom Management
- Your Clergy
- Each Other! (AWWY Facebook Group)
- Around the Country! (FORMA Facebook Group)
- Episcopal Christian Educator’s Handbook by Sharon Ely Pearson
- ME! Whitney Robinson, Missioner for Children & Youth Formation (601-810-5133) wrobinson@dioms.org
Missioner for Children & Youth Formation
