Deep Listening with Josh Packard

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Familying the Faith

Vibrant Faith

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On Familying the Faith Podcast, we know how much your calling to home-centered ministry matters to you—you’re craving new ways to fuel that calling, and new sources of hope for taking the next faithful step. To do that, you need tools to lead well in a challenging ministry environment, and proof of hope embedded in the stories of other leaders. We’ve each served more than three decades as national ministry leaders, investing in a home-centered, church-supported approach to faith formation. Learn what’s working through stories from leaders who, like you, are cultivating Jesus-centered families.

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Deep Listening with Josh Packard

Familying the Faith

40 minutes 11 seconds

1 year ago

Deep Listening with Josh Packard

Hello Friends!

Prepare to have your mind BLOWN. Welcome to episode 11 of Vibrant Faith’s Familying the Faith podcast. Our purpose is to connect with ministry leaders who are ready to dig into engaging and uplifting parents, the primary faith-forming agents in our world, grow in their capacity and confidence as they share a vibrant faith in Jesus with the next generation.

This episode is just so interesting and engaging. Our friend and youth research colleague Josh Packard just founded an exciting new organization called Future of Faith—Sacred Tools for Congregational Connections, and Rick and Nancy had the opportunity to re-connect with a ministry colleague and friend and hear about his big new idea first-hand.

Join us as Josh reflects on his years of experience with research and listening, and how he believes that churches can and must be more systematic about relationships.

Here’s how he and is co-founder Megan Bissell describe their work:

No more big data. Future of Faith is a collective effort to bolster one community at a time by helping them listen and love in real, dedicated ways that help leaders connect strategically with the people they care so much about.

We have devoted our careers to telling the stories of religious people and movements across this country through research. As a professor, Josh's research agenda focused on collecting data and shining a light on people often left out of traditional church structures. More recently, we both helped to found the only national research institute dedicated to the understanding the religious and spiritual lives of young people. Together, we have conducted nearly a hundred individual studies, amassed the largest dataset about religion and young people and spoken to tens of thousands to share research findings.

We are committed to using our expertise as sociologists and to help others explore and reimagine the future of faith in their communities. The resources and tools in this site are one piece of a much larger movement to rekindle the wonder of faith and spark curiosity that leads to engagement in a meaningful faith life.

This was such a great conversation—you’re going to love it! Our primary takeaway was that you CAN not only talk about creating a “familying” culture of deep relationships at your church, but you can create a system for it so that it becomes central to your DNA and sustainable.

Join us as we help you take that next faithful step!