ChildFaith - Encourage your child in the faith--and be encouraged in your faith as well!

Encourage your child in the faith--and be encouraged in your faith as well!

Discussing and showing how faith can be shared with children both at home and in the faith community. See www.childfaith.net

To be released Fall, 2009 by Cascade Books

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Our perspective on spiritual formation fits with the historic Christian faith, shared by many thousands of people through the centuries. The

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Created by Don Ratcliff Apr 4, 2009 at 10:42am. Last updated by Don Ratcliff Aug 13.

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Class in Children's Spirituality at Wheaton Spring, 2010

I'll be teaching a class in children's spirituality Spring, 2010. Details are at this web page: www.childfaith.net/class. -Don

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Stickers for Good Behavior

At first I did not give any sort of reward for memorization or bringing your Bible, but then the kids seemed to get bored, and needed a little extra umf, so I started this. After a few months, they are again forgetting their Bibles and not memoriz...

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How can churches more effectively encourage parents to nurture their children in the faith?

This question relates to the strategy laid out on the childfaith.net web page that, step by step and week by week, nudges the church and parents in the church towards greater responsibility for children's faith nurture. That strategy is by no mean...

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Stickers for Good Behavior

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Class in Children's Spirituality at Wheaton Spring, 2010

I'll be teaching a class in children's spirituality Spring, 2010. Details are at this web page: www.childfaith.net/class.
-Don

Posted by Don Ratcliff on October 21, 2009 at 11:07am

What is a Blog?

Blog pages are for more detailed descriptions of what you are doing and your thoughts related to the spiritual formation of children. While people can respond to you--and that is encouraged--the emphasis is upon self-expression. If your kids are old enough, you might encourage them to write a blog about their experiences related to spiritual formation, both the experiences with parents and their personal spiritual experiences. Blogs are for you to give us the full story of what is happening in y… Continue

Posted by Don Ratcliff on April 4, 2009 at 10:39am