by Shannon Rains | Jul 14, 2020 | Family Ministry, Leading KidMin, Parenting, Special Topics, Vision for KidMin
For those that study children’s spiritual formation, John Westerhoff’s book Will our Children Have Faith? is a classic, must-read book. For brevity, I am going to oversimplify and summarize his answer to his question. Westerhoff contends that, no, our children will...
by Shannon Rains | May 9, 2020 | Leading KidMin, Vision for KidMin
This fall, children may find unexpected changes to their day-to-day school activities. Many recent news articles — I’m writing this article in May 2020 — include multiple reports indicating that school districts around the United States are developing...
by Shannon Rains | Mar 23, 2020 | Leading KidMin, Special Topics, Vision for KidMin
Focused and simple ministry is difficult to acheive. The temptation that every minister faces is to do too much ministry, not too little. Good ideals are driven by perceived parental expectations and our own self-pressure to minister to families in this time of stress...
