The Parenting for Faith podcast

For our first episode of 2025, Anna Hawken, Parenting for Faith Ministry Lead shares about the A-Z of Parenting for Faith - a brand new book which will be out in October 2025 and the focus for this season’s podcast. We’ll be picking all sorts of hot Christian parenting topics, collating the wisdom of previous guests and finding out what this looks like on the ground by interviewing you! Links Book onto the original Parenting for Faith course on zoom starting 6 March - https://www.brfonline.org.uk/collections/parenting-for-faith-events/products/the-original-parenting-for-faith-zoom-course-2025 We’d love to give you: Five key tools https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/tools/ Free access to all four of our Parenting for Faith courses - https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/the-courses/ Resources to help you navigate every season of life with kids and teens. For parents and carers go to https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/parents/ and for churches https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/churches/ We’d love you to give us (our new year wishlist): Your participation - send in a story or volunteer to be on the podcast by emailing [email protected], become a Parenting for Faith champion https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/meet-team/all-about-champions/ or leave us a review wherever you listen to this podcast Your prayers Your pennies (or pounds!) - https://www.brf.org.uk/donate/

Today, we're discussing how we can disciple our adult children. Becky and Kate, from the Parenting for Faith team, are sharing their wisdom on this topic. DATE CHANGE. We're now running the Parenting for Faith course on zoom from 6 March not 16 Jan as earlier advertised. Book the Parenting for Faith Zoom course here - https://www.brfonline.org.uk/collections/events/products/the-original-parenting-for-faith-zoom-course-2025 Watch the Parenting for Faith course online here - https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/course/ Thank you for listening today. If you are able to contribute to the cost of producing this podcast, please click here to give a one-off or regular gift: www.brf.org.uk/get-involved/give/ Parenting for Faith is part of the charity, BRF. We are reliant on donations from individuals and churches to make our resources available to as many people as possible. We are grateful for all donations, big or small. They make a real difference. Thank you so much for partnering with us.

Many of us are trying to disciple our children without the example of our own parents. Perhaps we came to faith through friends in our teens or adulthood, or the faith our parents have now is not one that they had when we were growing up. How do we nurture our kids’ faith when we have no example to follow? How do we help them not to make the same mistakes we made? And what are the basics of family discipleship? Here to help us navigate these issues is writer Hope Bonarcher. Native New-Yorker Hope came to faith in her late 20s, after a life of drugs, alcohol and promiscuity. Her life was radically turned around by Jesus, and within a couple of years she was married with a baby! Hope now lives west of Glasgow with her Scottish husband and their four children, who she is currently homeschooling. Links: Follow Hope on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hopebonarcher/ Follow Beauty Faith Life on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beautyfaithlife/ Read Hope’s articles for Woman Alive magazine: https://www.womanalive.co.uk/hope-bonarcher/2104.bio Thank you for listening today. If you are able to contribute to the cost of producing this podcast, please click here to give a one-off or regular gift: www.brf.org.uk/get-involved/give/ Parenting for Faith is part of the charity, BRF. We are reliant on donations from individuals and churches to make our resources available to as many people as possible. We are grateful for all donations, big or small. They make a real difference. Thank you so much for partnering with us.

Statistics show the importance of an active dad in a child’s life. How can dads be a positive presence in their kids’ spiritual lives, even if they don’t live with them, and how can we all support dads to be the best they can be? The Father’s Club is an initiative led by Christian dads in south-east London to support and equip each other across the generations. Today we welcome founders Isaac Frimpong, Tsion Martins and Gary Baah-Sackey to share their story of setting up the club and their insights into the importance of dads. Links: Check out Father’s Club https://phlive.london/fathers-club/ Check out Tsion’s business https://www.bridgethegapstudios.com/ To help this podcast continue to bless families and churches the world over, please consider giving a one-off or regular gift here: www.brf.org.uk/get-involved/give/ Parenting for Faith is part of the charity, BRF. We are reliant on donations from individuals and churches to make our resources available to as many people as possible. We are grateful for all donations, big or small. They make a real difference. Thank you so much for partnering with us.