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Resilient Disciples Podcast: You Earn the Right to Help a Child Become
Chris Marchand returns to the Resilient Disciples Podcast to continue the conversation around the “3B Philosophy,” this time focused on Becoming. In part two...
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Resilient is an honest calling to ask robust questions about the future of faith. It is a timely conversation in the midst of changing cultural landscapes. It is a love letter to the church about the children who will one day lead and minister in the face of cultural adversity.
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Resilient Disciples Podcast: Believe
On today’s episode of the Resilient Disciples Podcast we continue the conversation about the “3B” philosophy of Belong, Believe, and Become. Chris Marchand returns...
ArticleWhat the Bible Says About Believing
In John's Gospel, he says, “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.” (John 20:30-31) For every man, woman, and child, the primary role of the Gospels is to present the person of Christ with the most considerable amount of evidence possible.
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Resilient Disciples Podcast: Resilient Child Discipleship Roundtable (Part Two)
Resilient: Child Discipleship and the Fearless Future of the Church is now available! Valerie Bell, Matt Markins, Chris Marchand, and Mike Handler all joined Host Ross...
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Resilient Disciples Podcast: Resilient Child Discipleship Roundtable (Part One)
Resilient: Child Discipleship and the Fearless Future of the Church is now available! Valerie Bell, Matt Markins, Chris Marchand, and Mike Handler all joined...
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Resilient Disciples Podcast: Belong
Chris Marchand returns to the podcast to begin to dive into the “3B” philosophy of Belong, Believe, and Become. Today’s conversation is all about...
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What the Bible Says About Belonging
In Romans 1:6, Paul greets the church in Rome by saying, "including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ." The entirety of the Scriptures shouts to the world that we belong to God.
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Resilient Disciples Podcast: Belong, Believe, Become
Matt Markins, President and Chief Strategy Officer at Awana, returns to the podcast to discuss the "why" behind resilient child discipleship.
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Resilient Disciples Podcast: What Gives You Hope?
Episode Six of the Resilient Disciples Podcast with Kristin Thompson, Kirsten Hitchcock, and Samuel Porcha
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You Are a Fire Carrier
In Cormac McCarthy’s novel, No Country for Old Men, Sheriff Bell remembers that his father would carry the embers from the campfire in one camp to the next in an animal horn. It was a tradition passed to the cowboys from the Native Americans.
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Resilient Disciples Podcast: Children’s Pastors Conference Recap
Kristin Thompson, Samuel Porcha, and Kirsten Hitchcock on the Resilient Disciples Podcast discussing what comes next after the Children's Pastors Conference.
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Resilient Disciples Podcast: Michael Handler
Michael Handler joins the Resilient Disciples Podcast for a conversation about the future of the church.
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Resilient Disciples Podcast: Chris Marchand
Episode Three of the Resilient Disciples Podcast: Chris Marchand, Vice President of Partner Solutions at Awana
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Resilient Disciples Podcast Episode Two: Matt Markins
Episode Two of the Resilient Disciples Podcast: Awana's President and Chief Strategy Officer Matt Markins
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Resilient Disciples Podcast Episode One: Valerie Bell
Episode One of the Resilient Disciples Podcast featuring Valerie Bell
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Kids Need Spine and Heart: The Outlook for Kids from Resilient Child Discipleship
Think of the kids in your church. These children we love will be the church of the year 2050.
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How to Ensure Every Child’s Unique Discipleship Pathway
As we prepare today’s kids to lead the church of 2050, what if we designed a new system that put each child on his or her own unique discipleship pathway?
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How To Inspire Fully Engaged Child Disciple Makers
One loving, caring adult engaged in the life of a child can dramatically increase a child’s long-term probability for success.
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How to Match Your System to Your Philosophy
Are we talking about the systems of the past? Systems of the present? Or the systems we need to build the disciples who will lead the church of 2050?
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How to Develop a “Kid-Focused” Philosophy
Are we programming for the immediate, or prioritizing for the future?
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Noteworthy Research Behind Belong, Believe, Become
As child disciple-makers, we need to step back and ask ourselves, “Is our current strategy and philosophy going to nurture and influence resilient disciples who will lead the church in the year 2050?”
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The Biblical Basis for Belong, Believe, Become
As child disciple-makers, we need to step back and ask ourselves, “Is our current strategy and philosophy going to nurture and influence resilient disciples who will lead the church in the year 2050?”
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Why Children Need the Church
This is why, though parents are important, even primary, in the spiritual direction and discipleship of their children, they are not “only” or even enough. Children may grow in the soil of their parents’ faith, but they need light and air and more.
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The Science of Resilience: Why Kids Get Back Up
Why is it that some kids experience adverse conditions, yet they get back up?
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Dear Disciple Maker
You are more important than you know. These children are growing up and soon will forget your name. But when they think of God’s love . . . to them it looks a lot like you.
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A Shifting Landscape: The Challenges That Lead to the Need for a New Approach to Child Discipleship
Today’s church kids are growing up in both a secular and church culture which is unlike the cultures in which most adults grew up. More importantly, the culture kids are experiencing is unlike the ones that are to come.
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Why do we have a children’s ministry?
The question, “Did you have fun?” is not a terrible question. It’s just not the most important or the final question.
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Could You Be the Most Important Factor in the Life of the Kids You Know?
The #1 outcome in predicting whether a child is going to do well is not education, it’s not money, and it’s not home. It’s whether or not they have an adult to put their arm around their shoulders and say, “I’ll walk this walk with you.”
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A Letter to Today’s Child
Dear child, You are little for such a short time. But, when you grow up and think back on your childhood, we hope some of your earliest memories are about us, the church.
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5 Goals for Resilient Child Discipleship in Your Church and Mine
You and I have a vision for what we want the church to be, but is it possible to predict the kind of leadership...
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Make Resilient Disciples Tour
Our new book, Resilient, is just the start of an important conversation around resilient child and youth discipleship. But what good is a conversation if one party does all of the talking?
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When a Child Trusts Christ
The priority of children’s ministry is to reach kids with the gospel and to develop lifelong disciples. Building the kind of relationships that allow...
ArticleAwana is Releasing a Digital Sunday Curriculum
Over the past 70 years, through partnership with local churches, Awana has reached tens of millions of children all over the globe through its...
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Discipleship Stories
Can child discipleship truly change a life? Watch the stories of three lives forever impacted by the Gospel and the power of discipleship. From...
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Helping Kids in an Upside-down World
One of the aspects of planning for a ministry year is to be prepared to know what to say in case of a traumatic event. Because we live in an upside-down, messed-up world.
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A new conversation about resilient child discipleship.
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Episode Two of the Resilient Disciples Podcast: Awana's President and Chief Strategy Officer Matt Markins
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