Please Pass the Faith: The Art of Spiritual Grandparenting
Elsie H. R. Rempel is a young senior; ababy boomerand an experienced member of "club sandwich" generation. She is the devoted grandmother of four children ages one to twelve. A trained teacher with many years of experience in Christian school classrooms, Elsie devoted much of the last decade to Mennonite Church Canada faith formation ministries. During that time, she gathered, developed, and shared faith forming resources for people of all ages. She also obtained her MA in Theology. Her theses,Mennonites, Children, and Communion,reveals just one of the ways she is working to integrate children more deeply into the life of the church.Most recently, Elsie wrote curriculum for Vacation Bible School, edited a Bible study series on Revelation, and served as a mentor to elementary school teachers in Zambia's Southern Province through a Mennonite Central Committee program. Currently she seeks to encourage and mentor church lay leaders of all ages through her ministry as Mennonite Church Canada Formation Consultant.Elsie belongs to Charleswood Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She and her husband, Peter Rempel, have three married adult children, all of whom live near the Rempel home in Winnipeg.