Parents are the MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE in Children's Faith Formation
This article is similar to one posted on our Youth and Families page because that article was my first draft. This is a second look at this topic because it is of vital importance to our children. Some people brought children to Jesus so that he would place his hands on them and pray. But the disciples scolded them. “Allow the children to come to me,” Jesus said. “Don’t forbid them, because the kingdom of heaven belongs to people like these children .” Then he blessed the children and went away from there. – Matthew 19:13-15 When I was called to serve Emmanuel and Our Savior’s, one of the areas that I was asked to focus on was youth ministry. I have done my best to make that an area that I focus on. This summer, at one of the continuing education events I went to, I read a quote that got my attention. By the time our children are ten or eleven years old, they have figured out if faith practice is really real and important to their parents, or if they do it only for the s