Province I supports faith formation practitioners all across New England. Lay and ordained, full-time and part-time, non-paid and paid, these professionals work in parishes, dioceses, camps and schools to ensure that our children, youth and adults have opportunities to learn about and express our faith. Designing holistic processes that connect God’s story with our own as we participate in the life of a faith community, these women and men help faith community members engage Scripture and the Christian tradition, embrace spirit-led principles and practices, pray and worship alone and with others, serve individuals and groups in their communities and beyond as well as act to create a just world.   

Each year, the province invites everyone associated with faith formation to gather for informal networking, resource sharing, and lifelong education. Together we have explored The Way of Love, Parts I and II (2019 and 2020, Jerusalem Greer), incorporating elements of Godly Play and Montessori-like storytelling into our communities in non-traditional ways (2017), Alternative Models of Sunday School (2016, Prov I leaders), Faith @ Home (2015, Wendy Barrie), and The Once and Future Church (2014, Lisa Kimball and Tricia Lyons). If you have suggestions about what you'd like to explore deeply in the context of an in-person gathering, please email Emily Keniston at coordinator@province1.org.