Master Resource List
Please see THIS link to a Google Document you can view or download. I change the links frequently, so come back often! TRACI SMITH MASTER RESOURCE LIST Updated March 4. 2025
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50 Lessons from 2024
2024 was a big year and there was a lot to learn! (There always is, right?) I often do these kinds of reflections around my birthday but this year, it felt more like a year-end kind of thing. This is a list of things I spent hours thinking about or writing about in 2024. Some
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Prayers and Practices for Challenging News Events
I”m not sure which challenging news event led you to this page, this time. Perhaps a natural disaster, or perhaps a human-made disaster. Whatever it is, deep peace to you as you minister to children, youth, and their families during this time. In Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Practice at Home, there is a whole chapter
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Protected: Acts of Kindness Advent Calendar — TBT Premium!
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Speaking Schedule
We would love to see you at any of these events! Please be in touch with any questions or to book your own event! 9/28/2024 — Chicago Presbytery Leadership Conference, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary10/20/2024 — Preaching and Interactive Workshop at Deerfield Presbyterian Church 10/26/2024 — Faith at Home Workshop, First Presbyterian Church of Michigan City10/27/2024
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Protected: Survey Freebie
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Twelve Random hot takes/musings/rants/thoughts/opinions on the last day of May 2024, not to exceed 500 words because that’s the rule.Â
1. More fresh air, sunshine, and water for everybody of all ages. 2. Screens are the new smoking. 3. The best people aren’t really on social media much, if at all. This is just a fact. 4. Western medicine can fix hardware problems but not software problems and a lot of times what looks like
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Christmas Day or Epiphany Service for All Ages by Mary Hawes
The delightful and talented REV. MARY HAWES has written an all-ages Christmas service called Follow The Star. I love this as an Epiphany service. It’s so very well done. Mary has very generously permitted all to use it free of charge. Please use proper attribution “Service written by Mary Hawes, 2023. Used by permission. All
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