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If you’re here, you’re probably a parent, carer, grandparent or children’s worker who just wants to do your best for the kids in your care.
That’s Amazing! God really, really loves children and so do we. So let us support you. Each month we feature a parent, an expert or an author who has something to help you disciple your children and lead them to Jesus.
Simple Family Bible Study Method
By Jess Wolstenholm, M Ed, VP of Education & Publishing for Minno
With crazy schedules full of school, homework, sports, and activities, gone are the days we can spend an hour together as a family daily. Though it’s important to find occasional time to linger over the Word and worship, this simple family Bible study method will fit more easily into your busy, everyday lives.
Being God’s Child (when you’re all grown up)
By Anna Hawken, Parenting for Faith
God makes us the most unbelievable offer... to be our parent. Yes, even when we’re all grown up and have children of our own! ‘To all who did receive him [Jesus], to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God’. John 1:12 This is an invitation from God, to you, to be His child. But many of us don’t take up this offer. Or we don't live fully experiencing the connection, guidance and support that He wants to give us. Why? Because we're so busy doing the day-to-day grown upping of looking after everyone else. We've forgotten how to 'live on the child side'.
Reading the Bible as a Family
by Kristen Stevenson, Bible Society
As a family, we go through many seasons. Seasons of joy, frustration, triumph and pain. During one of our more difficult seasons, we regularly reflected on Matthew 6.25–34. The image of a lily standing in a field was able to give us strength that on some days we did not know we had. I don’t remember how we came upon that verse at that time. As so often happens, it was just where our Bible led us that day. God our Father knew we needed that verse at that time and so with an open Bible and an open heart we were supplied with what we needed.
Top Tips for Prayer Walking with Kids
by Joanne Gilchrist
"I’ve never been much of a walker but I grew with a youth leader who loved hiking! One day, our youth leader decided we should start prayer-walking round the streets of our home-town on a Friday evening. Great, I thought. Two of my least favourite things - walking and praying aloud. But something amazing happened on those prayer walks and I found my voice. I discovered I could pray in a way I’d never imagined. I prayed with passion, with conviction - in spirit and in truth. What was it that made the difference?"