Welcome to the Original Small Group, our blog for St. Stephen’s UMC Children, Youth and Family Ministry! It is the hope of Ryan and I, that this blog can serve our parents, grandparents, and families as a resource to help them strengthen and grow the young people in their lives into the people God wants them to be.
This will be a place where we can all work together, parents and grandparents, teachers and mentors, leading our kids on this journey...a trek through The Story. We all have, in the coming year, a unique opportunity to look and see the same part of The Story, each week. Every age and role in your family, with the ability to share their special view, will have an amazing experience...An experience that will not only impact and develope your family unity, but will reinforce the faith-foundation of your children as followers of Jesus Christ.
Ryan and I will hunt out ways to encourage and equip you, as parents and teachers, but we also hope that you will help us and each other by sharing your comments, ideas, issues and successes as we spend the next year finding the place that God has made for our families in this life-giving story! I can't wait to hear YOUR stories, God's stories for each and every one of the families of St. Stephen's! This is an exciting time! We are at the beginning of an incredible journey that God started at the beginning of time...I'm ready to see where he will take our families in the weeks to come!
Watch for my daily prayer focus for parents and grandparents (and anyone who has children in their lives), and know that Ryan and I are praying daily, sometimes moment by moment for each and every one of you.
In His loving kindness!
Dana
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