Raising Saints
Summary: "Raising Saints" offers tools to bring the Orthodox Christian faith to life for our children. Providing specific ways to express complex ideas to children so that they can understand and make them their own, and offering concrete and practical suggestions to reinforce those ideas, this podcast hopes to equip adults to share the faith with children, shaping the way in which our youth understand their lives. This podcast is for parents, grandparents, and godparents, for Sunday School teachers and for those working in the Youth Ministries—for anyone interested in shepherding our youth along the path to God.
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- Artist: Elissa Bjeletich Davis, and Ancient Faith Ministries
- Copyright: Ancient Faith Ministries
Podcasts:
Elissa shares some examples of how to teach children about the Orthodox understanding of heaven and hell.
When teaching Orthodoxy to children, our goal is not just to make sure that our kids know things about our faith, but rather to shepherd them in their faith. So how do we do that? Elissa shares a few ideas.
Elissa offers various ideas for communicating the glorious feast of Theophany to children.
Elissa describes how the life of St. Nicholas can be used as an inspiration to give anonymously.
Elissa offers some suggestions for teaching gratitude to our children.
Elissa encourages us to participate fully in the Nativity fast in order to prepare our hearts for Christ.
Elissa shares how to use the lives of the Saints to combat children's fears.
Elissa explains how to help children who struggle with doubt about the existence of God.
Elissa explains how to be responsible for a child during the Divine Liturgy.
Elissa explains how it is that God has no beginning and no end and what that tells us about Him.
Elissa encourages us to allow this season—the beginning of the new school year—to be one that sanctifies us and changes us for the better.
Elissa demonstrates how the idea of the monastery is a very useful illustration to help all of us, especially our youth, understand how to be Orthodox in this world.
Elissa explains how to use images from existing pre-communion prayers to help children prepare themselves for the Holy Mysteries.
Elissa explains how to use the baking of prosphora to talk with children about theosis, which she calls "the meaning of life."
Elissa encourages us to develop a vocabulary to communicate the significance of prayer in terms children can understand and then offer opportunities to put it into practice.
