Formation Leadership Webinars
PLAY for Families
In a culture marked by overscheduling, exhaustion, and disconnection, many families are longing for more meaningful ways to connect with one another and with God. Join the StoryMakers team for a hopeful conversation exploring why play is not optional in faith formation, but essential to how children and families build trust, belonging, creativity, and spiritual connection. Together, we’ll discuss practical ways diocesan leaders can equip churches to support families as primary faith formers through experiences rooted in joy, imagination, and shared discovery. As trusted partners in ministry health and formation, StoryMakers exists to help extend diocesan capacity and support thriving churches across your region.
Hope for the AI Generation
Gen Z and Gen Alpha are being shaped by screens at an unprecedented pace, often forming identity through algorithms instead of rooted community. Join the StoryMakers team for a thoughtful conversation exploring how the Church can offer something deeper in a distracted, digital age: presence, wonder, belonging, and meaning. Together, we’ll discuss practical ways diocesan leaders can help churches become places of grounded, embodied faith formation where children and teens feel seen, connected, and spiritually anchored. As trusted partners in ministry health and formation, StoryMakers exists to help extend diocesan capacity and support thriving churches across your region.
Sunday School Reimagined
Sunday School is being reimagined! Join the StoryMakers team for an inspiring conversation exploring how art, imagination, storytelling, and play can transform traditional Sunday School into meaningful, Gospel-centered experiences for children, teens, and families. Together, we'll explore how StoryMakers' creative approach connects Scripture with real-life experiences and social-emotional learning, while offering practical, low-preparation solutions that empower volunteers and ministry leaders.
Sparking Faith Through the Imagination
Children don’t simply learn faith through information — they encounter God through wonder, story, creativity, and imagination. Join the StoryMakers team for a thoughtful conversation exploring why imagination is not an “extra” in spiritual formation, but one of the primary ways children engage deeply with the Gospel and begin to see themselves within God’s story. Together, we’ll discuss practical ways diocesan leaders can equip churches with imaginative, sustainable tools that increase engagement, deepen belonging, and help faith take root for the long term. As trusted partners in ministry health and formation, StoryMakers exists to help extend diocesan capacity and support thriving churches across your region.
Sunday School Is Not Dead: Volunteer-Proof Solutions
Many churches are not struggling because Sunday School no longer matters — they’re struggling because the models supporting it have become unsustainable. Join the StoryMakers team for a practical conversation exploring how churches can create meaningful, Gospel-centered formation without relying on overtrained or overextended volunteers. Together, we’ll discuss low-lift, high-impact approaches that help ministry leaders reduce burnout while building programs that are sustainable, welcoming, and effective. As trusted partners in ministry health and formation, StoryMakers exists to help dioceses extend support to the churches in their care and cultivate thriving ministry environments across every context.
Intergenerational Worship: Why Rhythms Matter
In a fast-moving and fragmented culture, the Episcopal tradition offers something deeply countercultural: rhythm, repetition, rootedness, and belonging across generations. Join the StoryMakers team for a thoughtful conversation exploring why liturgical rhythms matter in the spiritual formation of children, teens, and families — and how intergenerational worship creates stability, identity, and lasting faith. Together, we’ll discuss practical ways diocesan leaders can help churches lean into their liturgical identity as a strength, cultivating worship environments where every generation is formed together. As trusted partners in ministry health and formation, StoryMakers exists to help extend diocesan capacity and support thriving churches across your region.
Belief & Belonging
Join the StoryMakers team for a thoughtful conversation exploring why social-emotional formation is not separate from faith formation, but foundational to it. Together, we’ll discuss practical ways diocesan leaders can equip the churches in their care with sustainable, Gospel-centered tools that help children know they are deeply loved, purposeful, and never alone. As trusted partners in ministry health and spiritual formation, StoryMakers exists to help extend diocesan capacity and support thriving churches across your region.