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 encourages parents and Sunday school teachers to stress the importance of Pascha by sharing in its fullness the story that leads up to Christ's Resurrection.
Elissa encourages parents and Sunday school teachers to stress the importance of Pascha by sharing in its fullness the story that leads up to Christ's Resurrection.
Let’s not just offer little Bible Stories as morality tales. Let’s instead help our children to encounter the Scriptures in their wholeness, finding Christ in the Old and the New.
Let’s not just offer little Bible Stories as morality tales. Let’s instead help our children to encounter the Scriptures in their wholeness, finding Christ in the Old and the New.
Elissa encourages us to teach our children to view their souls as habitations for our Lord.
Elissa encourages us to teach our children to view their souls as habitations for our Lord.
Elissa offers some suggestions for teaching children about the purpose of fasting.
Elissa offers some suggestions for teaching children about the purpose of fasting.
Elissa presents part two of her brief series on preparing for Lent.
Elissa presents part two of her brief series on preparing for Lent.
Elissa offers ideas for teaching during the three-week period of preparation for Great Lent (which is itself a preparation) to ensure that our kids benefit from the Church's wise preparation before the preparation.
Elissa offers ideas for teaching during the three-week period of preparation for Great Lent (which is itself a preparation) to ensure that our kids benefit from the Church's wise preparation before the preparation.
Elissa shares some examples of how to teach children about the Orthodox understanding of heaven and hell.
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.
