Become a Partner
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Join
- Fill out our 听辞谤 contact CMP Assistant Director Megan Stevens at stevenax@bc.edu
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- 听Meet with us via Zoom so we can get to know your faith formation leaders and envision how our resources can enrich your programming.
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- Choose a听point of contact who will share听feedback, testimonials, and photos to help us grow.
Receive
- The resources! Beyond the free templates, guides, and interactive media on our public website, we gift partners Karen Kiefer's Drawing God, Growing God, and The Misfit Sock books, with stickers, seeds, socks, and more, plus Breakfast with God, a series of 12 thirty-minute video episodes to help families have fun exploring the Gospel together.听
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- Personal support in making a plan to seamlessly incorporate these resources into your faith formation programming to create real, continuing, life-giving value for your unique parish community. We can offer frameworks for scaling the resources to serve different age groups, ideas for events and projects, and more.
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- A regional community of friends in faith, with virtual and in-person events that create space to connect and accompany each other in the work of stewarding the next generation of the Church.
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- A $250 stipend in gratitude for the time and energy you commit to fostering children's faith imagination. We are able offer this stipend to whoever your team deems best able to help implement these resources and share feedback with our CMP team.听
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- Opportunity to participate in virtual and in-person CMP community events such as regional parish events, workshops, and a culminating conference at Boston College in 2028.
Embrace
We simply ask that you听commit to using the resources in whatever way works best for your community. Simply designate a point person听who will communicate with the CMP team and share:
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- Feedback on how our programming is working or not working for you; what do your children, families, and ministers want and need? How can we best serve you?听
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- Stories鈥攑hotos, videos, and quotes to share with the CMP community. We want to celebrate you! Your good news will inspire our broader Catholic family.
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- Confirmation that your pastor is on board with the partnership.
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None at all! The generosity of the Lilly Endowment allows us to create and share resources at no cost to parishes.
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Your point person can be a parent looking to get more involved, an existing catechist or faith formation leader, or another individual who is invested in helping your parish nurture children's faith.听Their primary role will be to distribute resources to the parish, share stories and media, and continue an open conversation with the CMP team.听This should be someone听other听than your pastor.
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None at all! As long as these resources can serve as a fruitful supplement to your ministry, we are overjoyed to see how you creatively incorporate them according to the needs of your unique community.
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Have a question?
Email Megan Stevens at stevenax@bc.edu