• Christian parents and carers • Children and family workers • Church ministers • All those responsible for the spiritual nurture of children

Partnerships with New Wine and Care for the Family, Premier Radio and Childrenswork Magazine, The Resource, Messy Church

• Brings together Rachel Turner's wisdom and experience into one volume • Sets out God's heart for our children • Includes real life stories and practical, tried and tested ideas for helping children grow in faith • Includes questions for reflection to help adults better understand their own beliefs

Nurturing children in the Christian faith is a privilege given to all of us whose responsibility it is to raise children. God's desire is that our parenting guides each child to meet and know him, and to live with him every day through to eternity.

In this fully updated compilation of her Parenting Children for a Life of… series, Rachel Turner explores how the home can become the primary place in which children are nurtured into the reality of God's loving presence and encouraged to grow in a two-way relationship with him that will last a lifetime.

This book examines how we can enable our children to know what it means to be in a relationship with God, rather than just know about him – helping our children to be God-connected rather than merely God-smart. Each chapter includes true stories and questions to help us reflect on our own experience as we journey together with our children.

Essential reading for anyone nurturing children in the Christian faith

Delivers essential parenting and family life skills for church leaders

Rachel Turner

Parenting as a Church Leader eBook

Nurturing children in the Christian faith is a privilege given to all of us whose responsibility it is to raise children. God’s desire is that our parenting guides each child to meet and know him, and to live with him every day through to eternity.

In this fully updated compilation of her Parenting Children for a Life of… series, Rachel Turner explores how the home can become the primary place in which children are nurtured into the reality of God’s loving presence and encouraged to grow in a two-way relationship with him that will last a lifetime.

This book examines how we can enable our children to know what it means to be in a relationship with God, rather than just know about him – helping our children to be God-connected rather than merely God-smart. Each chapter includes true stories and questions to help us reflect on our own experience as we journey together with our children.

• Church leaders and those in employed church leadership roles

• Addresses areas of challenge and confidence among church leaders in parenting their own children • Enables church leaders to reflect on work-life balance and the time they give to their families • Disussescongregational expectations and perceptions that church leaders experience when parenting their children • Equips church leaders with parenting skills that they can then use to encourage and share with the wider church community

When spiritual leadership is the day job, how does it affect family dynamics? How do we spiritually parent our children while also needing to lead the church? How do we balance the many hats we wear? How do we live in a goldfish bowl and yet enable our children to flourish? How do we parent for faith without giving in to the pressure to perform for our congregations? Drawing on extensive research, this book explores the issues and builds a set of simple tools and approaches to help leaders and their families to flourish together.

How do we spiritually parent our children while also needing to lead the church? This book offers simple tools and approaches to help leaders and their families to flourish together.

\["For church leaders with children","This book offers ways to care for your children and your church","You'll find practical and spiritual guidance to help your family flourish"\]

Introduction

__PART I: CONNECTED__

1 The importance of connection

2 Growing connection in the midst of ministry

3 Tricky bits: coaching our children through the complexity of church

__PART II: PRIORITISED__

4 The power of feeling prioritised

5 Removing the competition of needs

6 Tuning in

7 Tricky bits: working from home

__PART III: COVERED__

8 The gift of covering

9 Protecting our children from exposure

10 Living in the goldfish bowl: dealing with congregational expectations

11 Navigating confidentiality

12 Tricky bits: freeing our children to build close relationships

__PART IV: EMPOWERED__

13 The strength of empowering our children’s faith

14 Helping our children meet and know God in everyday life

15 Coaching our children in how they engage with church

16 Tricky bits: building our children into the body of Christ

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Book extract: Parenting Children for a Life of Faith

Being a Church leader is hard. Being a parent is hard. Being both? That is something else entirely, but this book offers guidance to help your family flourish.

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