4. What is your vision
for the home
When your child leaves home one day, which
one of the following would you want most for
them?
5. What is your vision
for the home
When your child leaves home one day, which
one of the following would you want most for
them?
to be successful academically
6. What is your vision
for the home
When your child leaves home one day, which
one of the following would you want most for
them?
to be successful academically
to be successful athletically
7. What is your vision
for the home
When your child leaves home one day, which
one of the following would you want most for
them?
to be successful academically
to be successful athletically
to be successful socially
8. What is your vision
for the home
When your child leaves home one day, which
one of the following would you want most for
them?
to be successful academically
to be successful athletically
to be successful socially
to be a person of faith and character
9.
10. Which of the following Parent issues gets the
best of your time, efforts, money, anxiety and
planning
11. Which of the following Parent issues gets the
best of your time, efforts, money, anxiety and
planning
academics
12. Which of the following Parent issues gets the
best of your time, efforts, money, anxiety and
planning
academics
athletics
13. Which of the following Parent issues gets the
best of your time, efforts, money, anxiety and
planning
academics
athletics
social life
14. Which of the following Parent issues gets the
best of your time, efforts, money, anxiety and
planning
academics
athletics
social life
faith and character development
17. God’s Grand Vision
Each family is different
Different personalities, jobs, ages of children,
ways of getting your children
18. God’s Grand Vision
Each family is different
Different personalities, jobs, ages of children,
ways of getting your children
Your family heritage
19. God’s Grand Vision
Each family is different
Different personalities, jobs, ages of children,
ways of getting your children
Your family heritage
God has put your family together for a
purpose
23. Searching for
Personal purpose
What is the greatest commandment
Mtt 22:37-38
Love the lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, with all your mind. This
is the first and greatest commandment
27. Searching for Family
Purpose
How is success defined as a parent?
Helping our kids be who God wants them to
be
28. The Comeau Family
To know, love and serve God
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
Psalms 1
29. Deut 6:4-5
H e a r, O I s r a e l : T h e
LORD our God, the LORD
is one.Love the LORD
your God with all your
heart and with all your
soul and with all your
strength.
30. These commandments
that I give you today
are to be upon your
hearts .
49. • 12% of youth have a regular dialogue with their mother on
faith /life issues
• 5% of youth have a regular dialogue with their father on
faith /life issues
• 9 % of youth experience regular Bible reading in the home
• 12% of youth experience an act of service
51. what then should we
do with our time
Talk about them when you sit at home
and when you walk along the road, when
you lie down and when you get up. Tie
them as symbols on your hands and bind
them on your foreheads. Write them on
the doorframes of your houses and on
your gates.
59. Gods Grand Vision
God’s grand vision for your family is that you
would help one another love and follow Him
more fully every day.
60. Gods Grand Vision
God’s grand vision for your family is that you
would help one another love and follow Him
more fully every day.
My great commission as a person is to make
disciples, starting with my own children.
62. Conclusion
I pray that God have impressed on you that the
hearts of your children are your greatest
responsibility
63. Conclusion
I pray that God have impressed on you that the
hearts of your children are your greatest
responsibility
The greatest impact you will have on the world
will be the children you release into it
64. Will you give the best of your time, effort, and
money to the spiritual life of your family?
Editor's Notes
Welcome\n\nmy name is kendra comeau\n\n I am here to share with you what god has been teaching me about faith and children\n\nI am the parent of three children\n\nand have been the director of Childrens ministry at the campus for 9 years\n\n\n\n\n
Any ideas\n\nideas, making it through the day, maybe even the minute?\n\nwe will have clearer view of the answer to this question as we go through this workshop\n\nFirst of all - i am no expert!!! Just changed by the power of God's word!\n\nI fail daily, sometimes by the minute\n\nthere is stil yelling in the morning rush to get out to school\n\nBut I am a work in progress inspired to learn more and do better with God's guidance\n\n
lets make this clearer by asking some questions\n\nask questions\n\nhow many of you would like another option, all of the above\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
lets make this clearer by asking some questions\n\nask questions\n\nhow many of you would like another option, all of the above\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
lets make this clearer by asking some questions\n\nask questions\n\nhow many of you would like another option, all of the above\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
lets make this clearer by asking some questions\n\nask questions\n\nhow many of you would like another option, all of the above\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
lets make this clearer by asking some questions\n\nask questions\n\nhow many of you would like another option, all of the above\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
lets change the question a bit\n\nread questions\n\nthere is nothing wrong with these answers the problem is when they become a priority\n\n
lets change the question a bit\n\nread questions\n\nthere is nothing wrong with these answers the problem is when they become a priority\n\n
lets change the question a bit\n\nread questions\n\nthere is nothing wrong with these answers the problem is when they become a priority\n\n
lets change the question a bit\n\nread questions\n\nthere is nothing wrong with these answers the problem is when they become a priority\n\n
lets change the question a bit\n\nread questions\n\nthere is nothing wrong with these answers the problem is when they become a priority\n\n
each of our stories, giftings etc are different\n\nno one has the same story as you\n\ntell my story of my family\nchildren, hertitage, etc\n\ntell me your storyzz????\n\nmy prayer is that as we go through this that Gods vision will become clearer to you as it has become to me\n\n\n\n
each of our stories, giftings etc are different\n\nno one has the same story as you\n\ntell my story of my family\nchildren, hertitage, etc\n\ntell me your storyzz????\n\nmy prayer is that as we go through this that Gods vision will become clearer to you as it has become to me\n\n\n\n
each of our stories, giftings etc are different\n\nno one has the same story as you\n\ntell my story of my family\nchildren, hertitage, etc\n\ntell me your storyzz????\n\nmy prayer is that as we go through this that Gods vision will become clearer to you as it has become to me\n\n\n\n
each of our stories, giftings etc are different\n\nno one has the same story as you\n\ntell my story of my family\nchildren, hertitage, etc\n\ntell me your storyzz????\n\nmy prayer is that as we go through this that Gods vision will become clearer to you as it has become to me\n\n\n\n
What is our personal purpose as Christians\n\nall right awna people what is this verse\n\nour purpose, the one thing we are too focus on personally is love God with all our hearts soul and minds\n\nthis is what we were created for, our own personal goal in life\n\n
What is our personal purpose as Christians\n\nall right awna people what is this verse\n\nour purpose, the one thing we are too focus on personally is love God with all our hearts soul and minds\n\nthis is what we were created for, our own personal goal in life\n\n
What is our personal purpose as Christians\n\nall right awna people what is this verse\n\nour purpose, the one thing we are too focus on personally is love God with all our hearts soul and minds\n\nthis is what we were created for, our own personal goal in life\n\n
Do you have a personal or family mission statment\n\nI have had one for work forever! It too me forever to make one for my family\n\nshare your mision statment and noah and Karissa and the papers\n
Do you have a personal or family mission statment\n\nI have had one for work forever! It too me forever to make one for my family\n\nshare your mision statment and noah and Karissa and the papers\n
Do you have a personal or family mission statment\n\nI have had one for work forever! It too me forever to make one for my family\n\nshare your mision statment and noah and Karissa and the papers\n
how do we start to answer what should our family mission be\n
this is the same as our goal\n\nbut the verse does not stop there\n
write them on your child's hearts\n\nthis is not a list of dos and donts, this is where my legalistic rule follower comes in!\n \nIt is about parenting the heart, the behavior will follow!\n\nkinda like of like new christians, there is a heart change and then because of this new relationship we see behaviors change!\n\nalways work on the heat first, then behavior will follow! \n\n
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As a CMD I thought the church was the best plce to teach kids, even my own! \n\nI have spent hours, dys and years putting on the best I could for the kids of the church! \n\nThat is what I am trainied for, experienced in, and called to do!Bring me your kids, Ill fix them!\n\n or so I thought\n\nthen one day, my blinders were taken off\n\nGod changed my heart and opened my eyes to the truth\n
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wow what an eye opener\n\nas anCMD I am not very effective\n\nas a mother I am very effective, \n\nbut all my time was going into The CMD role, not the mother!!\n\n
wow what an eye opener\n\nas anCMD I am not very effective\n\nas a mother I am very effective, \n\nbut all my time was going into The CMD role, not the mother!!\n\n
wow what an eye opener\n\nas anCMD I am not very effective\n\nas a mother I am very effective, \n\nbut all my time was going into The CMD role, not the mother!!\n\n
wow what an eye opener\n\nas anCMD I am not very effective\n\nas a mother I am very effective, \n\nbut all my time was going into The CMD role, not the mother!!\n\n
wow what an eye opener\n\nas anCMD I am not very effective\n\nas a mother I am very effective, \n\nbut all my time was going into The CMD role, not the mother!!\n\n
wow what an eye opener\n\nas anCMD I am not very effective\n\nas a mother I am very effective, \n\nbut all my time was going into The CMD role, not the mother!!\n\n
wow what an eye opener\n\nas anCMD I am not very effective\n\nas a mother I am very effective, \n\nbut all my time was going into The CMD role, not the mother!!\n\n
wow what an eye opener\n\nas anCMD I am not very effective\n\nas a mother I am very effective, \n\nbut all my time was going into The CMD role, not the mother!!\n\n
lets look at the typical family and how much faith stuff is going in our homes today\n\nremember these were chirstin families that survyed\n\nwhat do you think are the answers\n
dont worry I am not going to survey you guys!! \n\n
dont worry I am not going to survey you guys!! \n\n
dont worry I am not going to survey you guys!! \n\n
dont worry I am not going to survey you guys!! \n\n
then share your story about how your heart haas changed\n\nwork, kids, hisband god\n\nthurn it around\n\ngod husband kids work\n\n
what should we do with those 3000 hours\n\nlets finish our verse in Dueteronomy\n\n
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did you motice how that doesnt say just the children are to learn about God,\n\n when was the last time your kids taught you something new about God \n\nor how we are to relate to him, \n\nand when was the last time a situation with your child has brought you closer to God?\n
did you motice how that doesnt say just the children are to learn about God,\n\n when was the last time your kids taught you something new about God \n\nor how we are to relate to him, \n\nand when was the last time a situation with your child has brought you closer to God?\n
