Nurturing the children in our churches to love and worship God.
You really can worship with your young children. Here are some ways to draw them to God in corporate worship.
Asking questions with obvious answers trivializes God’s Word and can discourage our learners. Here’s a better way to end a Bible story.
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.
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.
Welcome to FaithPassing.
I hope this becomes a wayside for those of you who work hard to lead the children in your church and their families to love God with all their heart, mind, and soul. Leading Childhood Ministries can be filled with events, programs, recruiting, budgeting, and on and on. Stepping away from the path of your “To Do List” to reflect and consider what is really going on is likely the most valuable work you can do.
I hope that you find FaithPassing a good place to pull over and consider the “who, what, why, when, where, and how” of nurturing the children in your church to love and follow God.