I've been curating family faith formation resources and I thought I would share my list here. Last weekend I led 2 workshops about Equipping Households for Faith Growth. Children's and family pastors were the main audience so it was about how they could equip families. This Sunday I'm leading a workshop about Family Faith Formation.… Continue reading Family Faith Formation Resources
If you've seen my recent updated About page you will see that passing on faith is important to me. Why do I believe that passing on faith at home is important? Firstly as I've said in previous articles  you pass on faith and values to your children whether or not you are intentional about. This is… Continue reading Why Faith At Home is Important
I have written about one of our families Advent Traditions & here I'm going to talk about our Advent Calendar which we've used for many years. I made this advent calendar when my daughter was about 4. First I cut out & ironed on the numbers in the correct place, then sewed the red strips… Continue reading Our Advent Calendar
While we have done a number of different things for advent over the years, including building a paper chain by adding a link each night with a person to pray for & putting baby Jesus (one of my daughter's dolls in her dolls cot) under the Christmas tree. Two Activities have definitely become traditions. The… Continue reading Exciting Adventure Stories for Advent
We want to pass our faith onto our children. Â This post by Sam Luce reminded me that I had started the following post but never published it. Â When my daughter graduated from high school at the end of 2015 we presented her with a Bible. This was a journalling Bible that I had highlighted verses… Continue reading Planting the Word of the Lord
Recently I tried a new spiritual practice with my family in our regular after dinner devotion time. Â We read the Bible as per normal but then I asked everyone to get their phones. Â Normally phones would not be at the table during dinner or devotion time. Â As my children are both in their later teen… Continue reading Smartphone Prayers
