Equipping Parents for The Journey
One of the best things about being part of a community with other parents is learning how they approach similar problems. Let's face it, there are not a lot new parenting challenges under the sun, but there are many approaches to head them off or tackle them. As we wrap up our back-to-school series,...
It’s back to school season in North Texas. This time of year has always been filled with some level of fear and anxiety. How could it not be, with new schools, new teachers, new programs, new rules . . . So much "new" is hard for anyone. But the start of the 2021–2022 school...
"In the middle of newborn snuggles and baby heaven with the birth of my second child, I found myself sinking into a pit. My symptoms weren’t what I expected, and it took awhile to realize what was happening to me . . . It was there that Jesus met me, weeping and vulnerable and...
Here we are again; another school year is complete, and we are thinking about the summer stretching out before us. Ah, yes, summer. Summer is a time just waiting to be filled with (hopefully) fun and relaxing family time. But, summer is often a struggle between over-scheduled, over-hyped, and over-stimulation, resulting in losing your...
As Christians, service is in our DNA. We are instructed to love God with our whole heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves, which often happens through serving one another. In a consumer culture like ours, how can we as parents teach our kids to have servant hearts? This week on the blog,...
We are one week into the new year, the kids are back at school, most of us are back to work, and if I am honest, a little funk has set in. I am enough of a realist to know that we would not wake up on January 1st, 2021 and all of 2020...
Many parents made the decision to homeschool, or virtual school in the heat of a hot and contentious COVID-19 Summer. Many of those same parents are now looking at the school books, paper, and computer strewn across their dining room table thinking what have we done. For every family who thoroughly enjoys...
This is the face of hunger in your community. For too long I had felt that food pantries, SNAP food programs, and food donations drive were to help people in other places. But every community in this country is home to families who struggle with food insecurity including rural, and suburban communities, not just...
As we start to consider our lives post COVID-19, what seemed so important 6 months ago may no longer seem important. Is attending and being involved in your local church on that list? Have you asked yourself, why do our kids need church? Why do our families need to be engaged in their...
Some kids are natural born helpers, but for most kids the heart for service is developed over time. In Courtney DeFeo’s book “In This House We Will Giggle”, she defines service as “using our hands, feet and heart to honor God and love others.” Our Early Childhood Ministry Leader, Kristin Langford brings...
Our family schedules went from busy and over-packed to blank over night. The first few days were great. We retreated to our homes to get some extra rest, baking and watching movies, and it felt almost idyllic. But now a couple months into sheltering in place, school at home, and and activity limitations, the...
Telling the Easter story can be confusing and even a little scary for our little ones. After all, we tend to use lots of words they are not familiar with, and we talk a lot about death. So in our "stay at home" situation, our Ministry Leader for Early Childhood, Kristin Langford, provides us...
