“There is no escaping habits and formation in the family. We become our habits, and our kids become us. The family, for better or worse, is a formation machine.” (Justin Whitmel Earley)
SABBATH RHYTHMS – experienced together during Sunday gatherings
- Nursery staff present opportunities to children to begin simple practices of spiritual disciplines, including brief times of quiet and stillness, saying or singing grace before a snack, and other introductions to disciplines of gratitude, stillness and reflection.
INVITATION for PARENTS – leading our children to places we have gone before
- Invitation to deeper practices
GOSPEL FORMATION for KIDS – practices for the family in the home
- Practices for the family in the home
SABBATH RHYTHMS – experienced together during Sunday gatherings
- Children are invited into opportunities for longer moments of stillness and silence in prayer, are encouraged to pray out loud, and given opportunities to practice gratitude.
- Children are taught to understand themselves as whole people, created to worship God and enjoy him forever, with mind, body, spirit and soul all part of the whole.
INVITATION for PARENTS
- Invitation to deeper practices
GOSPEL FORMATION for KIDS
- Practices for the family in the home
SABBATH RHYTHMS – experienced together during Sunday gatherings
- Children are welcomed into an intentional space where small disciplines like stillness, silence, gratitude, prayer, reflection and meditation on the Word of God are practiced.
- Children learn that they can practice simple spiritual disciplines while at school or home as well, learning to give their concerns to the Lord and walk in the Spirit through prayer and meditation on Scripture.
INVITATION for PARENTS
- Invitation to deeper practices
GOSPEL FORMATION for KIDS
- Practices for the family in the home
SABBATH RHYTHMS – experienced together during Sunday gatherings
- Children are invited into more pronounced moments of the disciplines: writing down gratitude, engaging moments of confession before the Lord, praying in stillness and silence, and practicing Lectio Divina in meditating on God’s Word.
- Children are given opportunity to express their concerns and learn how spiritual disciplines can assist us as whole people to keep in step with the Holy Spirit, depending on his guidance and love to overcome anxiety and fear.
INVITATION for PARENTS
- Invitation to deeper practices
GOSPEL FORMATION for KIDS
- Practices for the family in the home
