There is nothing quite like the joy of welcoming your first grandchild and entering the awesome phase of grandparenting. What a joy it is for us who have 24 grandchildren. However, along with this privilege comes incredible responsibility, which is not always easy. It takes …
Maybe you remember seeing this video appear on our Facebook page. It shows how at the start of the Advent Calendar, I removed the TV from our living room. For a period of just over 3 weeks we didn’t have this big black hole in …
Below is a list of websites with useful reads & resources for parents in dealing with use of media. internetmatters.org This website has resources and guidelines for different age groups 0-5; 6-10; 11-13; 14+ www.theparentingplace.com/technology/ A website with some interesting reads and ideas about technology. …
By David Smith – Extract from his research project for the 2019 FMS in Fortaleza, Brazil As one FMI leader has noted: family is the real Discipleship Training School. Family is the most fruitful context in the world for children to develop the character of …
Dear YWAM family! I once met a young evangelistic frontier YWAM missionary, with a heart for the unreached and a strong calling over his life from God to missions. He was more than ready to find someone to share life with, as many ywammers are, and we …
By Noémie & Loïc Marsh Talking to various friends around our age, we discovered that they usually don’t seek or even appreciate having their parents enter the loop of their own marriage. What provokes the mindset of avoiding our parents when they approach the sphere …
Many of us have been there. One of our children will get married, so what advice is best? It’s reasonable to say that our children have grown up hearing us talk about relationships and marriage, helped us run couples courses and listened to us speak …
By Guy Zeller I still remember when carrying her as a little baby, and now the time had come for me to give her away! Noémie and Loïc started their official relationship just after we left Switzerland to spend a year in Ivory Coast, so we …
The second Friday in September is ‘National Day of Divorce’ in the Netherlands. It’s not a day to celebrate, but a day to pay attention to the consequences of the terrible breakup of marriages. This year a child who had suffered from her parents’ divorce …
Do you find yourself in a marriage that is filled with pain and conflict? Does it seem like you just “don’t love each other anymore?” Are you at the impasse of “irreconcilable differences?” Does it seem like all hope for a loving relationship has evaporated? …