The Developing Faith series is designed to fit comfortably into many different programming schedules. A mini-course includes eight sessions, each approximately 150 minutes in length. The sessions are clearly labeled in parts and movements that allow for much freedom to adapt the mini-courses to many time-frames, settings, and existing calendars, or to use the mini-courses in ways that best meet the needs of your course or program.The Developing Faith series offers mini-courses on faith themes that respond to the developmental needs of adolescents as recommended by diocesan catechetical leaders throughout the country. Developing Faith has been designed for use in settings that may include a wide age-range of adolescents. Multiple suggestions within each session allows for easy adaptation of each mini-course for focus among exclusive groups of younger or older adolescents.In part or whole, the sessions can be used for youth group meetings, religion classes, retreats, days of recollection, peer ministry meetings, small faith community gatherings, and so forth. Used in any of these ways, the Developing Faith series contributes to and is indeed a foundation for an expansive and engaging faith development program.The Developing Faith series is designed to help adolescent Christians to develop the seeds of faith that were given to them at baptism. Coming to accept the faith includes three distinct but interrelated processes: developing one's individual relationship with God, developing one's sense of belonging in a Christian community, and developing one's understanding of and allegiance to the institutional church.Developing Faith encourages adult participation and makes it easyfor adults to get involved. Adults from the parish community participate in a variety of roles, including catechists, group moderators, mentors, guests at one or more sessions, and prayer partners.This is a special way that adults are involved. The mentor is a spiritua