Connecting Kids with Prayer with Anna Hawken | Connecting Kids with God (Part 2 of 3)

yeah that's brilliant So let's finish then with your slice of hope.

What does Parenting for Faith hope that Chat and Catch will do for the next generation?

I want it to be so normal that it's not something we have to teach anymore.

I would love every child and young person to have a living, active prayer life that feels like a two-way ongoing conversation where they have access to God and they're telling him about stuff and getting wisdom and guidance from him.

at school and at nursery and in the shower and at that party and that sleepover.

And yeah, I just think if we can equip them with that tool and give them loads of opportunities to practice it, like, can you even imagine? And then they're going to grow up to be adults who have those skills as well.

You know, lots of What is tricky sometimes in our churches is adults don't have a two-way prayer life with God and that's limited.

Again, there's nothing wrong about what people are doing, but it's just not the full picture.

It's not the full hope that God gives us.

And so, yeah, I would love to see that being totally normal for children and young people and that they grow up as adults and teach it to their children and young people as well.

And it just becomes... prayer, you know, as we, and we see people catching from God in the many, many different ways that we see in the Bible.

Um, and that's kind of normal and expected.

Um, and I just think it opens so many possibilities for yes, dealing with the ups and downs of life and equipping our children, young people in those situations, but actually this bigger thing of purpose as well of they understand their small part in God's big plans and, um, They're looking for things that God has for them to do.

And ultimately, just to set the bar really high, changing the world.

Because if God is setting them up to do stuff and they're able to receive that communication clearly and act on it, it's just got to be a good thing, hasn't it? Yeah, absolutely.

Absolutely.

Tell us where people can find out more information and all the things, Anna.

All the things, love it.

So our website's parentingforfaith.org. Our app is called BRF Online, and that has all the courses and watch on demand video stuff.

Our podcast is called Parenting for Faith.

And on Instagram and Facebook, we're Parenting for Faith BRF.