Fiona Hammond

Here are 50 easy ideas to create sacred moments with children and teens…at home or in your class or at church. Really…they are all amazingly useful, simple to organise and meaningful! This book is a keeper, AND you can sign up here to get ideas delivered to your email. Traci Smith’s Faithful Families can be found at the Roscoe Library at St Francis College, Milton (if I ever give it back! Shhhh!) and online here: Faithful Families at Booko.

Faithful Families is ideal for

Busy parents who want to create sacred moments with their families
Grandparents who are eager to pass on their faith to their grandchildren
Children’s Ministry Leaders and Sunday School Teachers who want to equip and empower parents to incorporate faith at home all week long
Clergy who are looking to learn new ideas that will reach families and children

Some of the practices include

Bedtime Blessing
Morning Inspiration
Christmas & Easter Traditions
Birthday Traditions
Ceremonies for the First Day of School and Getting a Driver’s License
Coping with anxiety, death, and illness
Alternative ways to pray such as prayer beads and a prayer walk
Ancient spiritual practices like lectio divina and the labyrinth
Practices that encourage hospitality and compassion