Our Church and Our Children

Our Church and Our Children

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  • Author: Sophie Koulomzin
  • Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
  • ISBN: 9780881412741
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 196

This book is a re-release of a classic by a distinguished Orthodox Christian religious educator and a foundational read for Christian parents and educators. Koulomzin, who taught Religious Education at St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary from 1954 to 1973, writes as a laywoman, teacher, mother, and grandmother about the task of Christian education. The work is a remarkable compendium of her wisdom. The contents of the book comprise a deep understanding of children, a wise appropriation of educational and developmental theory, a lived knowledge of the Orthodox faith tradition, and a keen sense of Orthodox church life in America. The book is peppered with engaging anecdotes from her half-century of experience working with children in the Church. For Koulomzin, recognizing that children are full members of the Church was of utmost importance, and her life's vocation was encouraging others to see this. Among the key topics addressed in Our Church and Our Children are: the task of Christian education, developmental stages of children, Christian education in the family, the challenges and opportunities of the church school, and a vision and goals for the Christian teacher. It makes an excellent book for either group or personal study. Included in the re-release are a foreword, which gives a glimpse into her incredible personal life, a bibliography, and a chapter-by-chapter study guide.


Helping Our Children Grow in Faith

Helping Our Children Grow in Faith

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  • Author: Robert J. Keeley
  • Publisher: Baker Books
  • ISBN: 1441233504
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 158

Children have serious faith questions that require serious answers, answers that adults often find themselves under-prepared to give. But the Christian community has a responsibility to help its children develop a three-dimensional faith--a faith that affects their heads, their hearts, and their spirits. Helping Our Children Grow in Faith is designed for children's ministry and worship leaders, Sunday school teachers, and pastors--as well as parents--who want to nurture the spiritual development of the children in their lives. It shows how to integrate children into congregational worship, how to teach them the Bible but leave room for the mystery of God, and how to distinguish the difference between faith development and moral development.


Infants and Children in the Church

Infants and Children in the Church

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  • Author: Adam Harwood
  • Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 1433646528
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 232

A congregation rejoices when a new child is added to its midst, yet the church often wrestles—in both theology and practice—with how to best receive and minister to infants and children entrusted to her care. Frequent questions arise like: Infants and Children in the Church addresses these critical and sensitive questions from a variety of rich traditions, including Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, and Baptist, so that Christians can make the most of every opportunity as they minister to children.


Hope When It Hurts

Hope When It Hurts

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  • Author: Sarah Walton
  • Publisher: The Good Book Company
  • ISBN: 1784980749
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

Thirty biblical meditations for women that offer hope in times of suffering. Thirty biblical meditations for women that offer hope in times of suffering. Hurt is real. But so is hope. Kristen and Sarah have walked through, and are walking in, difficult times. So these thirty biblical reflections are full of realism about the hurts of life-yet overwhelmingly full of hope about the God who gives life. This book will gently encourage and greatly help any woman who is struggling with suffering-whether physical, emotional or psychological, and whether for a season or for longer. It is a book to buy for yourself, or to buy for a member of your church or friend. For anyone who is hurting, this book will give hope, not just for life beyond the suffering, but for life in the suffering. Each chapter contains a biblical reflection, with questions and prayers, and a space for journaling.


It Takes a Church to Raise a Parent

It Takes a Church to Raise a Parent

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  • Author: Rachel Turner
  • Publisher: Brf
  • ISBN: 9780857466259
  • Category : Church work with parents
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

How can churches become centres for empowering parents to raise God-connected children? How can we transform the lives of parents, carers, grandparents and church communities, and the way generations of children are raised? While it is parents who are on the front line of discipling their children, God has placed us as the church to journey alongside them, nurturing and equipping them and cheering them on. This book will help church leaders and volunteers to grow in the skills needed to make our churches places that empower families. It explores how to help parents over the major obstacles that hinder them from proactively discipling their children, and looks at practical ways to lay the foundations of a church culture where parenting for faith can flourish.


Children Matter

Children Matter

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  • Author: Scottie May
  • Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780802822284
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 400

Explores how the church can better minister to children inside and outside of the Christian education classroom. Draws on the Bible, psychology, and the authors' experience in various Protestant traditions.


To You and Your Children

To You and Your Children

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  • Author: Benjamin K. Wikner
  • Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
  • ISBN: 1591280281
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

Scripture promises that God's people "shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them" (Is. 65:22-23), and that Christ "will turn...the hearts of the children to their fathers" (Mal. 4:6). Yet Christian parents today face a disturbing exodus of their children from the Church to the world. Why is this? What is the place of children within the faith? What do the promises mean? Recognizing that this subject is fraught with difficulty and grief, the twelve contributors to this volume seek to address the hard questions and lay a biblical foundation of hope for our children. Contributors include Timothy Bayly, Joel Belz, Randy Booth, David Hagopian, Douglas Jones, Dr. Nelson D. Kloosterman, Dr. Charles Alan McIlhenny, Dr. Robert S. Rayburn, G. Mark Sumpter, Tom Trouwborst, Benjamin K. Wikner, and Douglas Wilson.


The Child in the Church

The Child in the Church

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  • Author: Maria Montessori
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780999170625
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 306

E.M. Standing's compilation of essays on Montessori religious education


Will Our Children Have Faith?

Will Our Children Have Faith?

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  • Author: John H. Westerhoff
  • Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
  • ISBN: 0819228001
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

Originally written in 1976, revised in 200, and translated in six languages, this classic critique of Christian education is newly revised and expanded and includes Westerhoff's overview and perspective on the state Christian education over the past forty years-plus his role in that history. According to Westerhoff, instead of guiding faith formation within the family, the church, and the school, we relegate religious education to Sunday morning classes. There, children learn the facts about religion, but how will they learn or experience faith? How can we nourish and nurture the faith of children, instead of only teaching the facts?


On Guard

On Guard

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  • Author: Deepak Reju
  • Publisher: New Growth Press
  • ISBN: 1939946999
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 227

On Guard offers churches eight strategies for preventing child abuse and three for responding to it, helping to move church staff and leaders beyond fearful awareness to prayerful preparedness.