All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy with its own way. - Leo Tolstoy
Faith Stepping Stones + Raising a Healthy Baby
Stone #1: Raising A Healthy Baby A
three-session course for young parents (and those expecting) in the church
and community.
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What is the purpose of this Stone?
• To teach parents to care for the physical, emotional, and spiritual
needs
of their baby
• To teach parents to nurture their own physical, emotional, and spiritual needs during this stressful period.
• To spawn the formation of a supportive small group network for
young
parents
• To call parents to add the practice of blessing babies and putting
them to
sleep with music featuring God’s Word to their nightly bedtime ritual
What Sessions are included with this Stone?
Session 1: Infant Physical Development
Parents learn about the physical and developmental needs of an
infant in a "Basic Baby" course.
Session 2: Infant Emotional Development
The emotional needs of both baby and parent are explored and discussed.
Session 3: Infant Spiritual Development
A short Bible study explores the concept of blessing.
Additional Details on Stone #1:
For most parents, during the first few hours after birth as they
hold that precious new baby in their arms, even the harshest critics
of the church are often touched with wonder and mystery at such
a miracle. It is said the hardest day in an atheist’s life is when
she finds herself profoundly thankful and has no one to thank.
With Stepping Stone 1: Raising a Healthy Baby, young parents spend
three weeks together sharing, laughing and growing as they learn
about their babies’ physical, emotional and spiritual health…as
well as their own, and finishing the course with a group blessing of
the babies at the altar in worship. At that time, the church can also
invite them into a new parents’ small group fellowship with the
people they’ve met through this course.
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If you have any questions about the Faith Stepping Stones system, please contact Ben Hoogland, Faith Stepping Stones Coordinator , at bhoogland@faithink.com or 888-55FAITH. Ben can also be reached via Skype at "finkbenhoogland". |