Our church used a midweek service that was a Bible study open to anyone. All people come together in a large group and then go to smaller community groups throughout the building. The original plan to was to group people by age but since we completed the survey, we have moved to a more intergenerational model

This survey allowed me to review how the church needs to break down the barriers and all multi-generational relationship to happen. We did ourselves a disservice by dividing out the generations. We missed opportunities to naturally develop relationships that lead to discipleship and mentorship.

I am so grateful for Christina meeting with our pastoral staff to talk about generational discipleship. As a senior pastor, I haven’t left a meeting feeling this energized and hopeful in a long time!

The four constructs were good; I’d never thought about the spatial/architectural constructs before. It’s given me a basis to look at things especially when planning something new.

Our Pastoral staff has had a number of ZOOM sessions with Christina as we attempted to enhance and enlarge our Intergenerational Discipleship ministry. Her insight into this facet of ministry has illuminated our thinking and her experience in this realm of ministry has wisely guided us as we formulated a structure and plan of implementation for our own local ministry both within the congregation and reaching into the community for God’s glory. Christina has enabled us to view our congregation from a different perspective that has served to help us embrace all age groupings and to purposefully become more inclusive in our disciple-making endeavors

The survey was well-packaged which made it feel like more work that it actually was. Once I got into the process, it was really simple. It was comprehensive in looking at the whole church. We discovered that overall, we are heavily targeted towards adults and age segregation in our programming.

Our training with Christina was wonderful and I look forward to putting my gained knowledge to work at my church with my families. I feel that I came away with so much to consider and pray about things that might have seemed undoable in the past. I learned that family ministry isn’t cookie cutter, but it is worth the work!

Overall, I really liked this assessment. Very comprehensive. The descriptions taken from societal norms was helpful. It’s a good tool to think about spaces for generations to connect.