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 discusses Orthodox marriage and parenting, focusing particularly on how both involve dying to self.
Elissa discusses Orthodox marriage and parenting, focusing particularly on how both involve dying to self.
Elissa shares with us how to get our kids to the place where their worldview is totally dependent on the Christian story.
Elissa interviews Christian Gonzalez, the California deanery youth director of the Antiochian Diocese of Los Angeles and the West, about how we need to rethink our approach to ministering to our youth.
Elissa reminds us that we are temples of God, meant to light up and become a lamp for the world.
Elissa shares some of the youth-centric traditions of her home parish with regard to Holy Week and Pascha.
If you are fasting from meat and dairy products, but you are not praying, studying the word of God, and making an effort to show love and charity, then your fast looks a lot like the devil's fast.
The Sunday of Orthodoxy offers us an opportunity to discuss with our kids the Orthodox understanding of the materiality of this world and its potential for holiness.
Elissa describes the "Psalter group" and its purpose during Great Lent.
Elissa tells the complete story of Noah's Ark to demonstrate how doing so can be used to teach children about why we go to—and participate in the disciplines of—the Holy Orthodox Church.
Elissa demonstrates how talking about St. John the Forerunner can be a great way to illustrate and understand the roles of the prophets and the saints all at once.
Elissa shares the wisdom of the newly canonized St. Porphyrios with regard to raising up children.
Elissa discusses the story of Abraham and Isaac and her favorite prayer for children.
Elissa addresses the issue of testing Sunday School students.
Elissa details what she and her parish learned when FOCUS North America's Youth Equipped to Serve (YES) came to visit Austin, Texas.
