A New Home for Taking Faith Home at Spirit & Truth Publishing
The Taking Faith Home weekly devotional resource has a new home and is now available at Spirit & Truth Publishing . Orders can no longer be placed at Milestones Ministry. We are thankful for your faithfulness in ordering this resource over the years and are confident that Spirit & Truth Publishing will continue to publish the same quality faith formation resource that you already know and trust. For more information and to order, click on the link below.
Since 2014, Taking Faith Home has been published and sold by Milestones Ministry. And now, beginning January 1, 2026, Spirit & Truth Publishing will be the new home for this resource.
As we, at Milestones Ministry, turn our attention to an intentional focus on writing and providing more Milestone Moments, we give thanks and are grateful to Gregory Rawn, Owner and Publisher at Spirit & Truth Publishing for his willingness to continue offering Taking Faith Home as a very beloved and valuable resource for so very many congregations. It will be the same resource you, in the congregations and households, already know and trust. We wish him the best and will continue to support him in his work and ministry to provide high-quality, easy-to-use, and inclusive faith formation materials for all ages.
What is Taking Faith Home?
- A weekly devotional resource
- Based on the Revised Common Lectionary and used by many congregations
- Gives examples of each of the Four Key faith practices (Caring Conversations, Devotions, Service, and Rituals and Traditions)
- Includes a weekly prayer, Bible verse, mealtime prayer, and blessing.
- Offers suggested daily Bible readings and Hymn for the week
- Included in the folder with one year of Taking Faith Home is a User’s Guide, Leader’s Tips, Suggested Hymn Listing, and the Bible Reading Reference List.
How do you purchase it? It is as simple as going to the Spirit & Truth Publishing to order.
Who is the audience? All ages
How can one resource serve such a diverse population? Not every part of Taking Faith Home needs to be used each week. Different parts can be used daily, others weekly. Here’s how people tend to use it:
- Adults tend to use the daily Bible readings (though few do it without fail. One day is better than nothing and two is better than one)
- Parents and grandparents use the weekly blessings and mealtime prayers with their children. Sometimes they even add the weekly prayer at bedtime.
- Children like to use the conversations and devotions to hear and discuss how God’s love is with them always.
- People on the go (most of us!) grab a prayer, a Bible reading or something that connects them with God’s living Word as part of their journey of faith.
- Couples, parents, and teen mentors are drawn to the Caring Conversations to bond relationships in faith.
- Service ideas and Rituals and Traditions are great for families and youth groups alike.
- Any part of it can work for small group ministries: from weekly Bible studies to young adult gathering to social groups to leadership teams that want to be ground their relationships, work, decisions, and actions in the Christian faith.
How does a piece of paper get traction in people’s lives?
- A simple one page guide that brings God’s word home to be used as daily spiritual food
- It serves as a sermon help and a wonderful children’s sermon resource in worship
- A team-building resource for groups that want to be grounded in God’s living word (staff, council, vestry, session, and other governing boards, task forces, and teams)
- A tool for meaningful contact with shut-ins and those in hospitals and other care facilities
- A cross+generational faith formation tool that can be used to supplement Sunday school anytime during the year
- A meaningful resource for special seasonal gatherings like Advent and Lent
How does a congregation know if the tool is working? Ask!
One of the most important ways to get Taking Faith Home used in congregations and in households is to communicate an expectation that it is a wonderful resource for staff, other congregational leaders, and the homes of those connected to the ministry of the congregation. Here are some ways to raise the expectations:
- Ask leaders how they are using it in their daily lives
- Introduce it in sermons and children’s sermons and then ask people how they used TFH during the week
- Use TFH at various gatherings. It reinforces the principle that if you want people to practice the faith at home, practice it together when people are at congregational events
- Check in with people. Find out what is working for different people and share the wonderful stories of how Taking Faith Home blesses people’s lives. There is nothing like hearing “stories of success” to encourage others to give it a try
- Do random surveys with households and ask
- Do you know that we have Taking Faith Home?
- Do you take it home?
- Do you ever use it, and, if so, how?
- What stories can you share of how TFH has blessed your life and relationships?
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