helping children find faith
I don’t wanna go back to school
Ed Drew
Date posted: 1 Sep 2019
Sand is still in their shoes, postcards are on their way to grandparents, and suntans have not yet faded; but nerves and worry about the new school year have already started.
I know a girl; let’s call her Ella. She gets very anxious about school. Friendships are hard to navigate. She’s up in the night. She’s sometimes sick in the morning. Her Mum feels exhausted, knowing that she will peel her daughter off her leg at the school gate. Everyone feels like a failure.
helping children find faith
Do I have to go to camp?
Ed Drew
Date posted: 1 Jul 2019
I remember being asked by a mother what more she could do to encourage her 14-year-old son to stay close to Christ. Her family was already an active part of their church. She was already doing a great job opening the Bible when she could and taking him to Christ in conversations.
My first step was to encourage her. Her son was safe in God’s hands. She could rely on her Heavenly Father to show her son all love, patience and mercy. Her regular prayers for her son’s heart to always belong to the Lord were being heard. Her desire to surround him with great teaching, great role models and a great church family was bearing fruit in his life. I wanted her to know that his salvation was not a burden that she had to carry.
helping children find faith
Halloween: ‘Why can’t we be just like everyone else?’
Ed Drew and Amy Smith
Date posted: 1 Nov 2019
It’s nearly Halloween – the annual ‘celebration’ of all things dark and sinister, cobweby and pumpkiny, spooky and scary.
For many parents, nothing is scarier than the question children ask about Halloween: Not ‘Why are those people wearing scary clothes?’ Or ‘Why are my favourite sweets suddenly orange?’ But ‘Why can’t we do Halloween like my friends do?’
helping children find faith
Cartwheels, Bricks, Marbles
Ed Drew
Date posted: 1 May 2019
Amanda vividly remembers the moment
when she cried at her kitchen table in front
of her three children.
At the time, her 14-year-old daughter was
lying on the floor, her 12-year-old son had
his head in his hands and her six-year-old
girl was doing cartwheels around the room.
Why the tears? Well, all this was happening
in the middle of her family Bible time.
REVIVE: power of the cross
Co-Mission
Date posted: 1 Aug 2019
‘The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those who are being saved it is the very power of God.’
The words of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians opened REVIVE, Co-Mission’s Annual Bible Festival which took place at the University of Kent at Canterbury in June. In a Big Top filled with attendees from 28 Co-Mission churches across London, the weekend began with an evening of praise, prayer, interviews and a talk by Richard Coekin, CEO of Co-Mission, on ‘The Power of the Cross’. While the message of Christ crucified is despised as weak and foolish by the world, it is central to the Bible, history and Co-Mission. Indeed, it remains the only way that Co-Mission will grow as a network.