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A peak experience is a vital complement to the regular activities within the faith community. The experience may be a residential camp, a day camp, a special Saturday program, a concert, a special evening program, and so on. In these contexts, faith is deepened through the mixture of meeting new people with a real faith, being … Read more
How can we be intentional about providing spaces for children to encounter Jesus? In an entertainment driven, visually stimulated, “I’m bored” generation there is a tendency to fill our program time with children with lots of activity, noise and busyness so as to maintain attention and hopefully communicate something of value. While we need to … Read more
How can we model the compassion of Jesus for the needs of the world around us? We are acutely aware of the brokenness in the world which surrounds them. We all have hopes and fears about the future. Too often we provide our children with the adult solutions to some of the world’s problems rather than presenting … Read more
Today we are all looking for the “BIG” story of life and the Bible provides that story. As we explore this story it is important that we discover not only the content but that we also become a part of this story – God’s story. It is our privilege to help others find their place … Read more
Here are the notes from the Let’s Talk Family Day in May 2016. Overall summary – download here LtF UK Report back summary 160606 Notes from groups – download here The Let’s Talk Family Notes We trust these are helpful as a snapshot Let’s Talk Family Summary NotesLet’s Talk Family – The Twitter ReportLet’s Talk Family – … Read more
We are not mean to travel alone in this life … true friends are important! It is true in life that we grow to be like our friends. Therefore, the more time we spend with our friends the more we will be influenced by their values and the actions that result. It is also true in … Read more
Here is a snapshot of the Let’s Talk Family gathering in Birmingham on the 26th of May – gathered from a large collection of tweets with the hashtage #UKltf. A full summary of the day and future activities will be avaialable soon. Tweets about UKltf lang:en exclude:nativeretweets exclude:retweets Let’s Talk Family Summary NotesLet’s Talk Family … Read more
A day long consultation, facilitated by the Children Matter Coalition, will help church workers focused on families, Christian agency staff and workers in the public sector dig deeper into the Christian perspective on family in the church and in the community and how that will shape mission and discipleship strategies. The day, which will run … Read more
Serving in Mission – enabling children to contribute For too long children have been seen as objects of the mission rather than active participants in the mission. Children are not simply to be seen as jugs to be filled with information but rather as whole people of God who can actively contribute to the mission … Read more
How do we honour milestones and ‘anchor points’ in the life of the child? Anticipating, honouring and celebrating with children and young people ‘transitions’ and ‘rites of passage’ is something we need to be intentional about. It needs to be public and an event or experience that can become an anchor memory in a person’s life. This … Read more