1. Positioned for Influence
This session of the course shows how, as parents, we are perfectly positioned and perfectly equipped to daily and easily show our child the reality of a day-to-day life with God.
The Original Parenting for Faith course
- For anyone with children in their life of any age.
- Equips parents and carers with five key tools to support the children or teenagers in their life to have their own vibrant two-way relationship with God.
- Based on the book Parenting Children for a Life of Faith by Rachel Turner.
- Made up of eight 30 min videos, plus, an additional video on confidence.
- The leader and participant guides, allow anyone to run it as course with individual reflection and group discussion questions. It can be run in many different ways with a group, including online, or used by individuals or couples.
- This is all freely available but we ask everyone who uses the material to register their course and make a donation if they are able, so that we can support you, pray for you and keep making it available to others.
- You can also search for a course near you or join the next course facilitated by Parenting for Faith on Zoom (happens once a year).
- You can also watch or download the trailer and promotional materials.
- Available with foreign language subtitles.
- Got questions? Check out the FAQs or get in touch.
Sessions in the original course
2. Making Sense of Life
This session of the course explains why and how we can give our children a spiritual framework for navigating life. This framework will help them connect the knowledge they have about God with their experiences of life.
3. Unwinding Wrong Views
This session of the course helps us to see how we can accidentally contribute to wrong views of God, and gives us tools to proactively unwind them.
4. Conversational Prayer – Chat
This session (and the next) will help release our children into a two-way conversation of sharing life with God. 'Chat' is the first stage of that conversation and this session will equip you to introduce your child to chat.
5. Conversational Prayer – Catch
This session (and the previous) will help release our children into a two-way conversation of sharing life with God. 'Chat' is the first stage of that conversation and this session will equip you to introduce your child to catch.
6. Surfing the Waves
In this session, we will learn about a simple six-stage model that will enable you to proactively disciple your child.
7. Prayer Ministry for Children
In this session, we will be looking at a simple model of prayer ministry designed for use with children and teens to ensure we keep our high-priest hats off and our coach heads on, and we will be giving it a go ourselves.
8. Helping Children Connect with Church
In this session we will look at how we can help our children grow in the biblical values of what church is and their place in it, so they feel connected, powerful and loved in their communities.
Bonus session: I’m not finished yet
This bonus session explores ideas from Parenting Children for a Life of Confidence.