An encouraging community
By Rachel Turner is an author and pioneer for The Bible Reading Fellowship’s Parenting for Faithprogramme, equipping carers of all kinds to raise God-connected children and teens, including through the free Parenting for Faith video course.
2017-01-19T00:00:00
Last night was our church’s annual ‘all kids’ team meeting, and I left feeling so…. conflicted. My favourite part of any meeting is when we tell stories. Stories transform a room. We all lit up with laughter and wonder as we shared stories of children meeting with God, children leading and serving, and children responding to the gospel in powerful ways. We pondered the quiet triumphs of pastoral care, our hysterical epic failures (many of which were mine) and what we have been seeing God do in the past year. It was sheer joy.