What Do You Value? February 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar
“I don’t want to pray right now,” my two-and-a-half-year-old says. I know that these words don’t actually mean she doesn’t want the comfort of prayer, but she doesn’t want to go to bed....
Read Article
Resources for Milestone Ministry in 2025
Second and third graders and their parents look throughout their home for pens, pencils, highlighters, and sticky notes as they prepare to dig into the Bible together at home—along with...
Read Article
Connected in Christ: January 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar
My three-year-old and one-year-old had just thrown F5-level meltdowns for the first fifteen minutes of church (some of it in the pew, some of it in the nursery, some outside … you get the...
Read Article
Your Guide for VBS 2025: Epic Australian Adventure
Get ready to explore amazing animals, lush landscapes, stunning sea life, and wondrous wilderness this summer at Vacation Bible School. During Epic Australian Adventure: An Unforgettable...
Read Article
Showing Hospitality: December 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
We long for deep community. We strive for healthy and helpful relationships with family members, church people, and neighbors. But if we’re honest with ourselves, especially as parents,...
Read Article
4 Accounts for Teaching the Christmas Story in Sunday School
The end of the year ushers in an exciting time for all ages. We join in the history of awaiting the coming Savior during the season of Advent and then celebrate His birth during...
Read Article
Why We Serve Others: November 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
We are now entering the one time of year in our world that is focused on being generous, giving back, and serving our neighbors. Bell ringers at stores, social media posts of friends...
Read Article
Written on Their Hearts: October 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
Psalm 119:15–16 states, “I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.” When I read this verse, I cannot...
Read Article
Comparison: September 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your...
Read Article
Your Kids See Christ in Your Marriage: August 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
My wedding anniversary is coming up. Every year midsummer, I think about the vows we made and how we continue to live out those vows. And if I’m being honest, sometimes I think about how...
Read Article
Distracted: July 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
We’ve all felt the struggle. When you’re sitting in an awkward waiting room, when your kid asks you the same question over and over, when you’re tired at the end of a long day—we struggle...
Read Article
Calling Out to the Father: June 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
“Daddy! Daaaaaaaaaaaa-deeee! Daaaaaaaa-daaaaa! Dada! DADA!” My two-year-old cries out in the middle of the night. We can hear her over our audio monitor getting more frantic. She is...
Read Article
Struggles and Support: May 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
May isn’t just the month of Mother’s Day; it is also Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month. Before I became a mother, I thought that the conversation surrounding maternal mental health...
Read Article
Ordinary Callings: April 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
In college, I attended a Bible study hosted at a pastor’s home. One week, he said our homework was to make a list of our biggest questions about faith, and we’d discuss them and seek...
Read Article
Free Teaching Tools for Holy Week and Easter
The celebration of Easter is the celebration of God’s grace and what He has done for us through the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ. Make sure the children around you know why with these...
Read Article
Parenting Guilt, God’s Grace: March 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar
It was a month or so after our second child was born, and my almost two-year-old decided he wanted to join the rest of the family and stop sleeping too. Fighting bedtime, skipping his...
Read Article
Top Children’s Hymns for Lent
Lent is a reflective and beautiful time in the Church Year. As we prepare to enter this season, you may notice some children are more familiar with this time as one to “take a break” from...
Read Article