Children's Spirituality Summit 2024

Recent decades have seen a growth in research highlighting the importance of families in the spiritual and religious lives of young people. As a result, family-based approaches to faith formation are becoming more popular. One instance of this is “faith-at-home practices,” simple rituals and activities designed to help families engage their faith and be formed spiritually by practicing them with one another—in daily life, throughout church calendar, and in key moments in family life. Despite the fact that faith-at-home practices are growing in popularity, studies have yet to examine their efficacy. Thus, we set out to learn about the effects of faith-at-home practices on the faith lives of families—both individual family members and families as a whole—who are involved in local churches and engage in these practices. This presentation will offer preliminary results of this study and examine its implications for how practitioners can empower families to nurture their spiritual lives through faith-at-home practices.