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CFTROU 0204: Students: Celebrating Life’s Milestone Moments | Milestones
As our children move through different stages of life, it’s essential to give them tools that help them make sense of life and keep following Christ through it all. Today on the show, we’re wrapping up the first half of this season, focused on Student and Kids Ministries at Family Church. This episode concludes the Student Ministry part of our series, and in our next episode, we’ll shift our focus to Kids Ministry. In this conversation, we’re exploring how to celebrate life’s milestone moments, joined by Pastors John MacTaggart, Derek Simpson, and Todd Thomas. We’ll talk about why we emphasize these milestone moments, what our current milestone path looks like, the impact of long-term commitment to these moments, and how they’re adapted over time to meet our community needs and culture changes. Celebrating life’s milestone moments is a valuable tool we use at Family Church, so tune in to learn more.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Why we emphasize milestone moments at Family Church.
- We unpack what our milestone path currently looks like.
- A look at what our 6th-grade milestone looks like and what we do there.
- Pastor Todd shares his experience as a dad who took part in the 6th-grade milestone.
- Pastor John breaks down what our senior milestone includes.
- Why these milestones tend to adapt and change over time, and factors that influence them.
- The benefits that flow out from celebrating these milestones.
- We share stories of how our student milestones have impacted families.
Milestones are a way that we celebrate an accomplishment. It’s where we celebrate the changing of a season of life. It’s where we celebrate a new season of growing up with our kids and with our families. And we’ve found this to be…
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One of my favorite things about these milestones is that they help our kids celebrate good holy, wholesome, righteous things as they follow God’s design. It’s good that they’re getting to choose over what the world has to offer.
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Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Todd Thomas on X
Jimmy Scroggins on X
Leslee Bennett on X
John MacTaggart on X
Derek Simpson on X
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Family Church Network
Family Church on Facebook
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