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Spiritual Formation Calendar Experience
Spiritual Formation Calendar Experience
The Spiritual Formation Calendar Experience is designed to help leaders of organizations, churches or networks to lead a team through biblically-rooted practices of spiritual formation. Each month’s content includes a discussion of a key idea or practice, an exploratory exercise and a reflection guide for groups and teams to process experiences together. It is a simple format that leaders and teams can … Read more
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CAFO2023 Full Conference Download
CAFO2023 Full Conference Download
UNHURRIED: LIVING WITH THE LONG VIEWThe fruit of our labor often feels so small and incomplete, even as fresh needs rise before us every day. A deep sense of urgency can dominate us daily. Jesus faced all that we face and more, yet he never ever seemed hurried. He lived always with the long view … Read more
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Human Health & Gifts of the Christian Life
Human Health & Gifts of the Christian Life
Measures of mental health have dropped sharply in Western nations over the past decade, especially among youth. This era is marked by dis-integration, felt from the level of the individual soul to age-old institutions to the level of national and global affairs. Amid such fracturing, very ordinary Christian practices offer extraordinary gifts. They are graces — both … Read more
Why the fight for social justice must start within
Why the fight for social justice must start within
A Christianity Today article by CAFO President, Jedd Medefind that explores the plight of the christian seeking to serve the most vulnerable among us. “Christians never look more like Jesus than when humbly serving amidst the world’s hurting–caring for orphans, battling trafficking, promoting urban renewal. But this good will inevitably be short-lived if rooted in … Read more
The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Healthy Eating
The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Healthy Eating
Nutrition and mental health interact intimately. Across the lifespan, the developing human brain is profoundly impacted by what we eat. This resource provides research-based steps you can take that really make a difference in physical, mental and emotional health as it relates to healthy eating habits.
A Journey Together
A Journey Together
CAFO would like to invite you and your staff into an experience that has been very meaningful for our team this year. Through 2022, we engaged in what we called the CAFO “Spiritual Formation Calendar.” Every month, we explored together a different spiritual formation practice — from solitude and Sabbath to gratitude, pruning, and generosity. Each … Read more
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The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Being Physically Active
The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Being Physically Active
God designed us so that we grow and come alive as integrated beings – mind, body and spirit. As we engage the body in vigorous activity or even gentle movement, our mind, our emotions, and our spirit are more alert, more agile, and more well-off. This resource includes some sensible, easy ways to increase physical … Read more
The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Getting Good Sleep
The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Getting Good Sleep
The Scripture communicates that sleep is a gift from God, which we are invited to receive as part of a trusting relationship with God. We sleep knowing God doesn’t. This resource provides practical steps for how we can improve our sleep and help our children improve theirs.
Soul Health for Leaders in Anxious Times
Soul Health for Leaders in Anxious Times
In a March 2021 Virtual Collaborate DISCUSS session, over 50 global leaders from 30 nations brainstormed about strategies for nourishing the soul health of champions in their networks. This publication is the summary of those discussions.
Responding to Evil
Responding to Evil
Four Actions to Teach Our Children – and Ourselves – as We Encounter the World’s Deep Brokenness So much good surrounds us. It comes in each sunset and moonscape, kind smile and shared meal. Every day carries ample reason for thanksgiving. Yet right alongside these gifts, our world holds such evil and brokenness. COVID-19’s ripples … Read more
Feeding and Forming the Soul on a Journey Together
Feeding and Forming the Soul on a Journey Together
The essence of ministry is a pouring out from ourselves. To continue in effective ministry, leaders need rhythms of receiving so our wells do not run dry. While we offer many things to others in this field (best practices, resources, training, services, etc.), the most important is the presence of Jesus. It is this presence … Read more
Christ at the Head of the Table
Christ at the Head of the Table
A Keynote to Collaborate 2017, James Wanje (Kenya) guides global leaders toward a deeper relationship with Christ.
Let Us Prepare Our Hearts as We Pursue His
Let Us Prepare Our Hearts as We Pursue His
From the first days of autumn the final days of December, the giving season provides us with space to remember all that God has given us, to reflect with gratitude, and to make our own gifts to him. But before we give anything – whether time, talent, money or even a warm meal or kind … Read more
How Giving Transforms Us
How Giving Transforms Us
As believers, we are called to be transformed, to allow God to shape our minds to the mind of Christ, to accept his view of the world and make our own thoughts obedient to his purposes. Giving is a supernatural part of this transformation. It is powered by the grace of God.