Having a weekly family meeting is an idea that I stole from my friend (and someone who is well known to my readers!) Jennifer Grant. We’ve been having family meetings, off and on, for about a year, and their importance and value has increased to us over time. Now, if we skip the meeting for […]
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This year we’re going to need to be giving our families creative ways to celebrate Advent and Christmas at home. Now, more than ever, families are going to be celebrating Advent and Christmas at home. I created this tutorial to show you one way of using Faithful Families For Advent and Christmas to create “Advent
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Family ministry (and ministry in general!) can be extremely chaotic during Advent. Churches squeeze in a lot of programs and activities, and ministry to children and families becomes a priority as visitors and friends attend. One of the “tricks up my sleeve” during Advent has been to rely on good picture books to rotate during
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Last year our congregation talked about how to make a simple “welcome station” where people could see what’s going on in the congregation and feel welcome as they came inside. The solution was simple: we moved a long buffet in front of a wooden welcome sign we already had. Small metal clips were nailed on
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