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 expresses how important it is to be honest and humble when teaching children, freely showing our imperfections.
Elissa reminds us that Satan is real and we should discuss him with our kids.
Elissa asks, "If the devil's goal is to isolate us from each other and to make us miserable, do you think he is for or against tattling?"
Elissa talks about the new hymnology program at her parish in Austih, TX, and then discusses the Cherubic Hymn.
Elissa recounts her week at Camp St. Sava, the official Orthodox summer camp of the Serbian Orthodox Church's Western American Diocese.
Elissa discusses the ways in which it is helpful for our children to have an understanding of how even the imperfections of the people we meet are an important part of how God saves us.
Elissa reminds us that if God were fair, we would be in big trouble.
Elissa addresses the little church of the family unit, reminding us that learning to live the Faith shouldn't stop during the summer.
Elissa encourages families to spread the joy of Pascha to a local cemetery.
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.
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 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.
