Have you ever felt like your kids don’t really get why you talk about God? They don’t have a real connection with God so it makes it hard for them to care, because your faith seems so abstract to them.

It’s never been more important for our kids to develop a deep, honest relationship with God. With more and more people leaving the faith, it’s important that our kids don’t just believe in Jesus, they KNOW and FOLLOW Jesus. The problem is, you want to empower your kids to connect deeper with God but they just don’t seem interested in what you’re offering.

Is is possible to help kids truly connect with God?

In a word, yes!

If you crave a deeper understanding of your child’s faith and simple tools to help your kids go deeper with God, you’re in the right place!

I know firsthand how hard it can be to plug some kids into the life of faith. They seem hesitant, resistant, disengaged, or just plain bored. It's frustrating, right? Kinda makes you want to quit.

But the concept of Sacred Pathways that I originally learned from Gary Thomas' book Sacred Pathways: Discover Your Soul's Path To God, has changed all that. Learning to adapt the Sacred Pathways for kids has helped me see their faith in a different light, which brings freedom and confidence to the way I share faith with them.

And the best part? They grow in faith too!

With its thoughtful articles on different ways kids can connect with God, Sacred Pathways For Kids will empower parents and ministry leaders to see your children the way God sees them, allowing you to focus your faith-building efforts on things that will actually connect with your kids.

From inspiring you to think deeper about your child’s faith to equipping you with practical activities to do with your kids, Sacred Pathways for Kids is the breath of fresh air you’ve been waiting for.

Sacred Pathways For Kids will help you:

• Think beyond the typical advice we tell both adults and kids to “read your Bible and pray more”.
• Recognize the differences between your children and how they naturally interact with God.
• Become equipped with practical tools to help your kids connect with God in a dynamic, authentic, unique way based on how God actually created them.

Sacred Pathways for Kids empowers parents and leaders to see that your kids have a unique relationship with God that doesn’t necessarily fit into a nice neat faith box. The book shows how kids can connect with God in various ways, and gives parents freedom and confidence to help your kids approach God in a mindful way. It gives parents and leaders a greater sense of the fullness of God and how he works among the children of the world.

Kids are not machines to be put together in the same way each time. A child’s faith needs to be nurtured, not assembled.

Proverbs 22:6 (NIV) says this: 

“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”

We take this to mean that if we teach them to read the Bible and pray, we will plop them on a faith path that guides them through life.  

However, we know this isn’t true. You can turn to almost any older adult in the church and hear a story of a child walking away from faith. This is not because they didn’t try to pass on their faith. But if an adult or a child is created in one way, and we try to force them into the shape WE want, most adults will walk away. They might go out into the world to find that which they could have found in God, if we had only just shown them how. 

There’s no assembly line. 

There’s no sure way to make your child a Christian. 

However, you can start your child off on the way they should go, which might not look exactly like the way you went.

For example, your child might really need to learn apologetics in order to survive in a hostile culture. Or learning apologetics might have a negligible effect on your child’s faith! Maybe instead of apologetics your child needs beauty and music to deepen their faith. Or maybe your tradition centres on exuberant acts of worship, but your child is a contemplative person who connects with God better while sitting and staring at a candle or an activist who feels the presence of God most strongly while standing up against the school bully.

Sacred Pathways For Kids will help you identify what those various areas of connection with God are, notice the way your child is uniquely wired, and learn how to nurture their unique connection with God in a way that builds their faith.

Nothing is more important in life than connecting our children to the Source of all life: Jesus Christ. But I know how frustrating it can be when your kids don’t care enough to pay attention to your lessons, zone out during Bible study, or refuse to participate in the fun activities you’ve planned!

Through personal stories and Biblical principles, this book inspires and empowers you to help your kids connect on a heart level with Jesus. Sacred Pathways for Kids is inspiring yet practical, and speaks to the heart of the matter - how can you connect your child’s heart to Jesus?