Faith Formulas Workshop is an elective class that Laurel leads at Inter-American School this semester. The class allows each of us to develop our own individual "Faith Formula" -- discovering ways in which we can grow in our faith. As a class we identified 25 different approaches to help us on our individual faith journeys.
The top three items almost all of us identified were: daily prayer, reading the Bible, and attending church. The elective is really a workshop (as opposed to a teaching-learning environment). We created our own class "sacred space"; discussed developing our individual "sacred times"; chose prayer teams; identified people, groups, and causes that we will prayer for (and incorporated them on intercessory prayer wheels that we made in class; and listed what we thank and praise God for. During our weekly class media lab day we created our own blog at http://www.faithformulas.blogspot.com/ , and have our own Facebook Group.
The class decided that as part of each class session we will spend a few moments of quiet time, pray and read scripture. We plan to explore and experiment with each of the twenty-five "faith formula" elements that we identified during our first week.We also have fun. We order a Pizza, or bring in cookies and chips, at least once a week.
