Entering the World of Families

Does your organisation, church, community, or school want to grow in its understanding and practical outworking of God’s heart for children?

‍Entering the World of Families is one of our courses that is presented within a partnership context.‍

We first listen to your unique needs (consultation process), and then we formulate a strategy (strategic planning) that fits your vision and unique context. This usually includes our three official partnership training courses (Entering the World of Children, Helping Children Grow in Faith and Entering the World of Families) and any specific needs-based training that is identified during the strategic planning phase.

‍During the strategy implementation, we build competencies for your staff or ministry team through training to eventually help achieve a multiplication stage where participants are trained as future trainers.

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‍WE HAVE ACTIVE PARTNERSHIPS ALL OVER THE WORLD

Overview

Children are part of a family, no matter how the family is composed – a single parent and siblings, a grandmother and grandfather, sometimes only siblings. 

Working with children apart from their families is not enough. Family members should be involved in each other’s faith formation but often do not know how. The focus of this course is to equip families to grow together in their faith.

During the course, families rediscover each other, their uniqueness as a family unit and how God wants to use them to bless each other and their community. The selection of subjects comes from the same curriculums as that of “Entering the World of Children” and “Helping Children to Grow in Faith” courses but are now presented in a family context.

‍Course info

Process:

Each training day consists of demonstrations, discussions, and practice, after which you go into the community to apply all you have learned. You will also learn from the community because you learn from experience.

Subjects:

Understanding God’s heart for families: 

• Joshua 24:15b: “But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
• Psalm 133:1: “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.”

Building relationships through:

• Respecting children
• Joining children in their world
• Connecting with children on their level
• Playing yourself into a child’s heart
• Storytelling
• Listening and responding when children talk
• Music
• Humour
• Care and share activities

Mentor in spiritual growth:

• Creative Bible reading
• Designing a programme

‍From the Helping Children Grow in Faith course:

• Building relationships through boundaries:
  - Securing good relationships
  - Group work: Understanding groups
• Mentorship in spiritual growth
• Guiding a child to salvation
• Praise and worship
• Bible stories: Discovering the truth through questions
• Bible stories: Experiencing truth through emotions
• Bible stories: Challenged by Bible characters
• Memorising God’s Word the fun way
• Teach children to pray
• Learning through real-life experiences