Everyday discipling
07 Apr 2025
You’ll find examples of and ideas for parenting for faith throughout our website, but here are some ideas to get you started.
Foundations
God’s plan is for parents and carers to help their children and teens meet and know him, just as they help them learn about the world and how to live well in it.
Raising children and teens is never straightforward, and real life can interrupt our plans. But we parent for faith in the midst of it all.
In this topic we explore what parenting for faith is and how it happens in the ordinary everyday – whatever that looks like for you.
- God’s plan for kids’ discipleship
- Parenting for faith in the everyday
- Parenting for faith when it’s tough
You might be interested in the Change and challenge topic, which tackles more specific issues such as additional needs, illness, transitions and parenting alone.
And for specifically age-related questions, we have an Ages and stages topic.
Parenting for Faith when it’s tough
04 Apr 2025
All of us will struggle with faith issues from time to time or find it hard to parent for faith in our circumstances.
God’s plan for kids’ discipleship
04 Apr 2025
God’s plan for kids’ discipleship is that it happens in the home, and because parents and carers are there in the everyday, and are the experts in their children, they are the people who can disciple their kids the best: in the messiness of ordinary, everyday life.
Key truths for parents and carers
01 Apr 2025
God’s design for how children and young people get to know him is that they learn it at home, from the people around them – their parents and carers.
Parenting ain’t pretty!
12 Jun 2024
Parenting isn't glamorous. It is ordinary and boring and weird-looking. And in the midst of it, parenting for faith flourishes.
The joy of the mundane: discipleship in the busy, tired, boring bits of life
18 Nov 2023
Parenting for Faith doesn't only happen in clean houses with perfect children at set discipleship times. God designed parenting so that we could help our kids connect with Him in the mundane.
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