All Faith at home articles – Page 8
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Forming faith rituals: Rites of passage
This year, we camped overlooking the sea. One of the things I loved was how the view changed every hour, every day. The coastline was littered with massive rocks, with incredible variance of how many were visible depending on the tide. The only thing that remained the same were the buoys. These floating plastic markers showed the fishermen who had placed them exactly where their lobster pots were positioned. It made me think about markers in our life; things we intentionally lay down to mark something important, places we can go back to no matter how much our life-landscape changes.
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A story for home: The Bethlehem box
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God-time during your day. You can break this story up and tell it part by part, or tell it all at once! You could use this story during a children’s session or adapt it into a nativity play for December.
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Faith at homeForming faith rituals: Summer holidays
What word would you choose to describe summer holidays? Wonderful? Relaxing? Memory-making? Long? Stressful? Childcare? Expensive? Exhausting?
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Faith at homeEat, Sleep, Worship, Repeat
Gathering together as a family to worship god in the home through prayer and engaging with the bible is an important part of Christian parenting, why then, Gareth Crispin asks, do so few people do it?
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Bricklayers united
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a Godtime during your day. Enjoy creating the character of Jacob, and encourage the children to join in with what Shem says every time. You could also use this story during a children’s session.
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A story for home: Dinner time with Eli and sons
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God-time during your day. Enjoy pulling different facial expressions and thinking about what noises the different characters might make. You could also use this story during a children’s session.
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Faith at homePure, undiluted Bible: Opening up God’s word with kids
We all know that reading the bible is important, but we seem pretty bad at actually doing it as families. Nate Morgan Locke is on hand to help
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Faith at homeForming faith rituals: Open-ended activities
When we think about fostering the faith of our children, the pressure to provide all the answers or create a Pinterest-worthy activity can be overwhelming. However, activities that are open-ended (ones that don’t have a predetermined end point) can be more effective in faith development than any perfectly formed craft.
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Faith at homeManchester attack: How do we support children and young people?
For many of our children and young people, the overnight attack at an Ariana Grande in Manchester, which left at least 22 dead, might be the first such event that feels ‘real’.
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Faith at homeA story for home: Moses and the not-burning bush
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God-time during your day. Enjoy pulling the different faces and making the sound effects together. You could also use this story during a children’s session, using the actions as they are written here, with everyone sitting down, or making the actions bigger, standing and / or walking around the room as you do them.
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Faith at homeForming faith rituals: Faith with the things around you
It’s sometimes easy to feel that to do faith at home we need lots of resources and materials. I’m very into having specific items to do faith at home activities. I love my Godly Play sets for sharing Bible stories and playing with as we explore where we are in the stories. However, I believe that most of us already have everything we need to get started, and as we go we can add the things we need. Once we get going, it’s easier to see what resources will really be most useful to us. So, here are some of my ideas on how we can use what we already have at home to do faith at home.
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Faith at homeSelf-esteem: “I am not enough”
In a world full of pressures and stresses, how do we give children and young people the tools to build up a healthy level of self-esteem? The girls’ brigade’s Claire Rush has some ideas
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Faith at homeA story for home: Play-along creation
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God-time during your day. Enjoy pulling the different faces and making the sound effects together. You could also use this story during a children’s session, using the actions as they are written here, with everyone sitting down, or making the actions bigger, standing and / or walking around the room as you do them.
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Faith at homeTaking flight: Four tips for developing faith in our children
I remember the moment I left the hospital lobby carrying this tiny baby. I was sure someone was going to stop me. I was with my wife carrying our daughter out of the ward and I felt that we were complete imposters. We had this tiny life in our arms and yet we had no idea what to do as parents. We felt completely unqualified.
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Faith at homeHow to unpack the Easter story with children
The Easter story can be a difficult one for children. Ed Drew shares a few thoughts about how to explore it together at home
