Faith & Gen Alpha: Training Series
How do we re-imagine the practice of discipleship for the digital age?
Faith & Gen Alpha is CruCon’s training course, equipping community leaders to host their own Conversation Series. The training follows the same 12-week format as each CruCon series — so leaders experience the model as they learn it.
Each cohort will explore the profound cultural pressures reshaping the next generation in the digital age, before unlocking five practices for guiding youth into becoming resilient disciples of Jesus: fully alive in a world that is rapidly changing.
“I came that you might have life, and have it abundantly.” — John 10:10
Faith & Gen Alpha
As our CruCon training course, Faith & Gen Alpha is a twelve-week deep dive into our vision for discipleship in the digital age. Each cohort of trainees will explore the cultural deformation taking place among the next generation through the spiritual and social colonization of the big tech industry, while also unlocking five practices for initiating youth into becoming resilient disciples of Jesus. Along the way, participants will be trained in the why, what, and how of leading a CruCon series in their own context.
Explore the series below.
-
-
Series Launch: Faith & Gen Alpha
Time to launch! During the Faith & Gen Alpha Series Launch, participants will meet other participants in the Conversation Cohort and get oriented to the practice of CruCon while engaging in a small group activity and receiving the series materials.
Time to launch! During the Faith & Gen Alpha Series Launch, participants will meet other participants in the Conversation Cohort and get oriented to the practice of CruCon while engaging in a small group activity and receiving the series materials.
-
-
-
Week # 1, Household Convo: A Vision of Adolescent Discipleship
What is your vision of discipleship? Do you have one?
In Week #1, we will look to Chapter 1 of Ronald Rolheiser’s book Sacred Fire to gain a broad awareness of the grace of discipleship at the various stages of our lives.
What is your vision of discipleship? Do you have one?
In Week #1, we will look to Chapter 1 of Ronald Rolheiser’s book Sacred Fire to gain a broad awareness of the grace of discipleship at the various stages of our lives.
-
Week #2, Household Convo: Initiating the Untamed Fires
What is God’s purpose for the adolescent stage of life? What is the goal of discipleship amidst a season of differentiation? What is the role of parents and elders in initiating the untamed fires of youth?
What is God’s purpose for the adolescent stage of life? What is the goal of discipleship amidst a season of differentiation? What is the role of parents and elders in initiating the untamed fires of youth?
-
Week #3, Household Convo: Digital Babylon & Resilient Exiles
What does it mean for spiritual formation among the next generation that “Screens Disciple”?
What does it mean for spiritual formation among the next generation that “Screens Disciple”?
-
Week #4, Community Conversation & CruCon Training Part 1 - Why CruCon
Together we will engage in both a 45-minute conversation based on the Conversation Pieces from weeks 1-3, as well as a 45-minute CruCon training session on the “Why” behind CruCon.
Together we will engage in both a 45-minute conversation based on the Conversation Pieces from weeks 1-3, as well as a 45-minute CruCon training session on the “Why” behind CruCon.
-
-
-
Week #5, Household Convo: Practice #1 - Intimacy with Jesus
What makes for a resilient disciple? To form a resilient identity among the next generation, parents/pastors/mentors must learn to help initiate our youth towards intimacy with Jesus.
What makes for a resilient disciple? To form a resilient identity among the next generation, parents/pastors/mentors must learn to help initiate our youth towards intimacy with Jesus.
-
Week #6, Household Convo: Practice #2 - Cultural Discernment
Secular culture has formative power. What is the role of cultural discernment in youth discipleship? This week we explore how we can learn to discern the culture together in pursuit of initiating our youth to become resilient disciples.
Secular culture has formative power. What is the role of cultural discernment in youth discipleship? This week we explore how we can learn to discern the culture together in pursuit of initiating our youth to become resilient disciples.
-
Week #7, Household Convo: Practice #3 - Intergenerational Relationships
Research has shown healthy intergenerational relationships are at the heart of resilient discipleship. Do meaningful intergenerational relationships happen naturally in your community? This week we will explore how to cultivate meaningful intergenerational relationships in the digital age.
Research has shown healthy intergenerational relationships are at the heart of resilient discipleship. Do meaningful intergenerational relationships happen naturally in your community? This week we will explore how to cultivate meaningful intergenerational relationships in the digital age.
-
Week #8, Community Conversation & CruCon Training Part 2: What Does CruCon Look Like?
Together we will engage in both a 45-minute conversation based on the Conversation Pieces from weeks 5-7, as well as a 45-minute CruCon training session on “What CruCon Looks Like.”
Together we will engage in both a 45-minute conversation based on the Conversation Pieces from weeks 5-7, as well as a 45-minute CruCon training session on “What CruCon Looks Like.”
-
-
-
Week #9, Household Convo: Practice #4 - Vocational Discipleship
To ground and motivate the next generation, the church needs to offer a vision of vocational discipleship. Does your church have such a vision, and if so, is it working? This week we dive into the role of the church in training the next generation for vocational discipleship.
To ground and motivate the next generation, the church needs to offer a vision of vocational discipleship. Does your church have such a vision, and if so, is it working? This week we dive into the role of the church in training the next generation for vocational discipleship.
-
Week #10, Household Convo: Practice #5 - Countercultural Mission
Biblical witness commends, and recent research confirms, that resilient disciples curb entitlement through an embrace of a countercultural sense of mission. Does your church community challenge the next generation towards countercultural mission? This week we explore ways to integrate countercultural mission into the heart of youth formation.
Biblical witness commends, and recent research confirms, that resilient disciples curb entitlement through an embrace of a countercultural sense of mission. Does your church community challenge the next generation towards countercultural mission? This week we explore ways to integrate countercultural mission into the heart of youth formation.
-
Week #11, Household Convo: Feedback & Final Project
As we begin to wind down this training in terms of the spiritual formation of the next generation amidst the digital revolution, we will create space to both offer the CruCon team feedback on your experience and to develop your final project: Ten Steps to Launch your own CruCon Series.
As we begin to wind down this training in terms of the spiritual formation of the next generation amidst the digital revolution, we will create space to both offer the CruCon team feedback on your experience and to develop your final project: Ten Steps to Launch your own CruCon Series.
-
Week #12, Training: Community Convo #3 - How to Launch a CruCon Series
Together we will engage in both a 45-minute conversation based on the Conversation Pieces from weeks 9-11, as well as a 45-minute CruCon training session on “How to Launch Your Communities CruCon Series.”
Together we will engage in both a 45-minute conversation based on the Conversation Pieces from weeks 9-11, as well as a 45-minute CruCon training session on “How to Launch Your Communities CruCon Series.”
-
Partner Resources
-
CruCon Training
Are you a pastor, or trusted community member? Be trained as a Conversation Partner to host your very own Conversation Cohort.
-
Promotional Content
Share CruCon promotional videos as you seek to build momentum towards hosting your own Conversation Cohort.
-
Conversation Guides
Get a basic idea of the 12 week process by exploring an example Conversation Guide.
-
Next Gen Formation Journal
Keep up to date with the latest reflections on the spiritual formation of the next generation in the digital age by subscribing to our Substack: Zoe In Babylon
Stay Connected to CruCon
The very best way to explore what we do and how it might serve your context is by first signing up for our CruCon Newsletter. Here you will receive insights, reflections, testimonies and suggested resources all aimed at equipping you for intergenerational conversations marked by grace, truth and curiosity.