Formation Resources for the Home

Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart.  Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are  at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when  you rise.      Deuteronomy 6:6-7

For the last fifty years, the congregation was placed in the center, supported by its members. It was assumed that this is where all faith formation took place. In a time of professionalizing everything from education to fire fighting to coaching youth sports, parents looked to church professionals and those trained by church professionals to do all of Christian education, spiritual direction, and values inculcation for their children and youth. And we, who were church professionals, picked up that mandate and did our level best to fulfill those expectations.
Inadvertently, we led parents, grandparents, godparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and friends to believe that they weren’t needed in this arena. But this isn’t biblical.  Deuteronomy paints a very different picture of what parents are called to do.  (taken from Marilyn Sharpe is the Director of Christian Parenting and Intergenerational Ministry.  Click here to read more.)

Faith at Home: A web site designed for Episcopal parents who wish to encourage and support faith development in the home.

   

Raising Children

  

Resources for raising faithful children from the ELCA

Activities

• Candlepress ( booklets and activities): 

  http://www.candlepress.com/

• Creative communications (booklets & activities): 

http://www.creativecommunications.com/