Here are two excellent resources for preparing for Sunday worship with your young children.

Don’t miss the real reason you do the work of planning VBS. This is a great article to have your teachers read and discuss during training.

Some thoughts for 2024.

If you affirm that children should be part of the worshipping community but struggle with making that work for parents and congregants who want to participate with minimal distractions, hold on tight and watch this.

Published by Calla Press in May, 2023, my story reflects the grief and yet the good work of parting with my mother’s everyday items, while remembering the very real hope we have in Jesus Christ.

This is the story of my grief and hope as I cleaned out my mother’s things before she died in 2022. Lent is the season in which we look ahead to the saving death of the resurrected Christ for our broken lives.

January 30 of 2022 will be the 110th birthday of Francis Schaeffer. Birthdays remind us how fast time flies and when we go back far enough, our time as children.

I thought I’d repost this blog I wrote in the September 2019 issue of ByFaith online because so few people know that this renown evangelical theologian, philosopher, apologist, and the founder of L’Abris, began his ministry focusing on children. I was a recipient of their work as I attended a modified Bible school that used the Schaeffers’ curriculum. The Scripture I learned then still lives on in my heart and continues to uphold and influence my faith today. Read this fascinating story and reconsider the value of children in our churches.

An Advent Poem

c. 2021 by Cynthia S. Fischer

Artwork from the Vatican Museum

I was prompted to write this at the intersection of attending my church’s child abuse prevention training led by a MinistrySafe, a national child abuse prevention ministry, and the ongoing news about sexual abuse, some of it, sadly, involving the church. We can do better and while everyone has a stake in the health of our children, it falls to the Children and Youth ministers to improve and reinforce our policies.