Our Resource Library
Fall Art Practice
This practices centers into this season by honoring the color and physical expression of letting go that the trees model for us.
Embroidery Art
Needle art a beautiful form of art that can be so grounding and engage the sense is unique ways that art with paper, brush, and pen.
Sidewalk Chalk
Sidewalk chalk is an accessible way to create in a natural environment, and it is a medium that is often easy to use for all ages.
Music and Art
This practice connects the two, understanding that quieting the mind enough to create is a skill that we often lose as adults (children innately see the world as a world they can engage with and create in), so music can be a centering way we shift our focus.
Art and Social Justice
Art is a powerful social justice tool! This practice is really helpful to 1) connect ourselves to a specific issue we care about or want to learn more about, or 2) serve as a form of advocacy or protest.
Hiking with a Paintbrush
This practice moves beyond simply going out in nature and encourages a deeper connection of the senses to the wild world by encouraging art inside of nature.
Finding Art in Nature
This practice moves behind creating what we see and encourages connecting with the natural world to see everything as art.
Yoga and Christianity
This resource explores the history of the intersection between yoga and Christianity.
How and Why to Host an Outdoor Service
This resource will talk about the benefits of planning and hosting outdoor worship services for faith communities.
Planning Wedding Services
This collection of Vows, Ring Exchange language, and Wedding Readings can help faith leaders to plan wedding services with couples.
Pressed Flower Art
Flowers engage our senses through sight and smell, and they can boost our mood because they are simply so beautiful.
Training Portal for Working with the Unsheltered
To help our members improve their knowledge, awareness, and involvement, we have constructed a training portal that covers a wide variety of topics, including; trauma, lived experience, language, system understanding, medical vulnerabilities, addiction, mental health, crisis intervention skills, social issues, de-escalation, media depictions, and connections to other resources.
Light Art Practice
This practice centers into the healing properties of light. Sunlight boosts our mood, provides warmth, gives us energy, and heals our bodies and minds.
Understanding the Foster Care System
This resource connects to our training portal that provides helpful information on understanding the systems and the needs that exist inside and around them.
A Guide to Creating a Street Outreach Program
This guide will instruct you how to develop a street outreach for your community.
Safe Discussion & Conversation Agreements
These conversation agreements help to ensure safe discussion and conversation atmospheres.
Roots of Community: Best Practice
The research on this project is sound and many experts agree that projects like this one could radically transform communities in our country. Therefore, we are sharing it in our resource library as an idea that could be explored by other communities of faith and communities of context to address growing numbers of unsheltered individuals and a national lack of affordable housing.
Record Retention for Faith Communities and Organizations
This resource will help organizations determine how long documents and records need to be kept organized and accessible.