Celebrating Milestones

As a Director of Children’s Ministry, I am always looking for ways for the children to know how a Christian acts. We use 7th and 8th graders as helpers in Children’s Worship, for example, to encourage them to model how a middle school child behaves for the younger children. But we often don’t encourage the adults to talk about their faith. If we don’t do this, children and teens won’t be able to see how these Christians model how God has worked in their lives. We need to share the stories of faith and the stories of God’s faithfulness to his people.

On Thursday evening I was very excited to receive a copy of the new book, Celebrating the Milestones of Faith, written by my husband Bob and me. Milestones has been on my mind for the past three or four years. A milestones program is a wonderful way to remind us that God is faithful. We need to take time to recognize and celebrate what God is doing in our lives and in the lives of those around us.

Yesterday we celebrated my daughters eighteenth birthday. It was a time of cake and gifts. What we forgot to do was to talk about how God had been faithful in her life and in all our lives over the last eighteen year. And we wrote the book! It’s easy to miss these opportunities without some sort of structure to remind us to do it. I guess that’s why God told the Israelites to build a monument near the Jordan River so that when you walked by kids would ask what happened and we would tell the stories.

We need to more intentional about sharing how God is working in our lives and remind ourselves of his faithfulness at church and at home. Faith Milestones can help us do that. Our new book can give you ideas about how to do it in your church.