pray
Churches are already praying in different places and times. Do the prayer times that you have include praying for and with families in the First Thousand Days? Are you encouraging congregations to pray into the big issues that families are facing in this stage? The fruit of this is that when we pray for and with families, we are embracing them in our communities of faith. We are standing with them before the God who loves them and their young child. And when we pray for the big issues in our community that affect families, we are asking the all-powerful God to move, to act, to make the pathway level for families to overcome these challenges.
Prayer resources for churches
- Why and how to pray with families – document
- How to discern what to do next in your church – document
- Families and prayer in action – blog
- Blessed are you, God – a prayer for children – blog
- When does spiritual growth begin? – blog
- How to foster spiritual growth in young children – document
- How to nurture faith or spiritual development in FTD – document
- Why Young Children Matter: a 20 Day Devotional – document
- The First Thousand Days: a life group guide – document
- A prayer for baby – document
- Scriptures to remind mom who she is in Christ – document
- Prayers that parents can pray over their children – document
- Pregnancy Devotional (facilitator guide) + Pregnancy journal (for mom) – document
- New mom devotional (facilitator guide) + Parenting journal (for mom) – document