Becoming a Christian: Formation in the Future Church
How does one become a Christian? Some of us are “born” into our faith, with our parents, grandparents or another family member taking us to their church and teaching us what they believe. Others may have been introduced to Christianity via friends or acquaintances. No matter how we came upon Christianity, each of us have our own distinct pilgrimage story. How we found our way to Christianity is uniquely ours and it is ours to share. Somewhere along Church history, it was deci

The Maker Church
In 2006, a conference called Maker Faire was launched, hosting creative types from all over the world to gather and share their innovations. At St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church and School in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, youth minister Ryan Hawthorne leads the da Vinci Lab for Creative Arts & Sciences, an after-school makerspace community for students in 5th through 9th grades. Their goal is to provide a space for students from a variety of schools, learning backgrounds