What Do You Do to Engage, Equip & Encourage Grandparents?

In this day and age it is ever so much more important for us to do all we can to engage, equip and encourage parents and grandparents to pass on a heritage of faith. The world around us is doing what God's Word said it would do; turn away from Him and set their own "rules" for what is "right". If we want to see the children in our ministries reached for Jesus and grow to know and walk with Him in an increasingly godless society, we have to do everything possible to help parents and grandparents teach the children they love at home.

So, what do you do to engage, equip and encourage parents? Many churches do this, but what do you do to engage, equip and encourage grandparents? If children in your ministry have grandparents who are believers, these grandparents have a unique position from which they can be very effective in passing on a heritage of faith. 

Engage them! Help them see their "job" is not "finished" when their own children grow up! Equip them! Help them find resources they can use to pass on a heritage of faith to their grandchildren. And Encourage them! Help them stay focused on being intentional in passing on a heritage of faith!

What do you do to engage, equip and encourage grandparents? (Stay tuned for a new curriculum for grandparents - Science, the Bible & Fun . . . it will be releasing in two weeks and I'll be offering a giveaway for it as well!)