The Parenting for Faith podcast

In today’s episode, Jess and Anna discuss how to help our kids have a faith that lasts. We don't have a magic formula or secret sauce that guarantees your child will stay connected to God throughout their life (sorry!) but we do know some things that help them grow a deep and rooted faith with will help it better withstand the storms of life.

Links:

Send us a voice note! https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/podcast/

Five Key Tools https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/tools/

The Deeper Rooted Lasting course https://brfonline.org.uk/programs/deeper-rooted-lasting

Teenagers and church https://brfonline.org.uk/programs/parenting-teens-for-a-life-of-faith?cid=4473207&permalink=a-great-conversation

Helping children connect with church https://brfonline.org.uk/programs/parenting-for-faith?cid=4467135&permalink=helping-children-love-church

Helping kids/teenagers who are disengaged or disinterested https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/post/disengaged-or-disinterested-facebook-live/

Grandparenting for Faith week at Lee Abbey https://leeabbeydevon.org.uk/programme/grandparenting-for-faith/

Parenting for Faith week at Lee Abbey https://leeabbeydevon.org.uk/programme/parenting-for-faith-2/

Is it too late if my children are teenagers or adults? https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/post/what-if-my-children-are-teenagers-or-adults-is-it-too-late

Sign up to BRF Online https://brfonline.org.uk/pages/parenting-for-faith

Send us your questions, stories and scenarios you’d love us to chat through and problem solve with you at parentingforfaith.org/podcast or email us at [email protected]

Thank you for listening today. Parenting for Faith is part of the charity, BRF Ministries. We are reliant on donations from individuals and churches to make our resources available to as many people as possible. If you are able to contribute to the cost of producing this podcast, please click here to give a one-off or regular gift: www.brf.org.uk/get-involved/give. We are grateful for all donations, big or small. They make a real difference. Thank you so much for partnering with us.

We normally take a break from the podcast over the holidays but today we’re bringing you a bonus of something a little bit different. Anna Hawken speaks to Martha Shrimpton from Spring Harvest about how we capture what’s great and build on the momentum of weeks like Spring Harvest. Martha is an actor, presenter and author who has worked within creative arts for many years. She is the director of Nimbus Collective, which encourages individuals, families and churches to connect with God in creative ways. She also works as the Creative Coordinator at Spring Harvest and leads The Big Start. Listen in whether you’re attending Spring Harvest or another festival or camp this year or not, as there are ideas that will work for everyone.

With a healthy dollop of realism and a lot of laughter, Anna and Martha explore how to:

Notice what God did (and is still doing...)
Keep the conversation going
Bring it into everyday life


Links:

Help your kids notice and know God at a week like Spring Harvest https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/post/spring-harvest/

Sign up for Spring Harvest Home https://www.springharvest.org/about-us/news/spring-harvest-home-2026-tickets-now-available

Explore creative ways to connect with God at Nimbus Collective https://nimbuscollective.org/

Helping your kids bring home the festival experience https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/post/helping-your-kids-bring-home-the-summer-christian-festival-experience/

BRF Online App:

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.uscreen.brfonline&hl=en_GBapple%20apps%20store

Apple https://apps.apple.com/fj/app/brf-online/id6759056009

Send us your questions and stories at parentingforfaith.org/podcast or email us at [email protected]


Thank you for listening today. Parenting for Faith is part of the charity, BRF Ministries. We are reliant on donations from individuals and churches to make our resources available to as many people as possible. If you are able to contribute to the cost of producing this podcast, please click here to give a one-off or regular gift: www.brf.org.uk/get-involved/give. We are grateful for all donations, big or small. They make a real difference. Thank you so much for partnering with us.

In today’s episode, we speak to Triona Brading, Lois Bunyan and Claire Wood, authors of Belonging without Barriers, which is a brand new book from BRF Ministries. Their book casts a vision of inclusion and full belonging within our churches and other Christian communities for those with additional needs. We chat about what that looks like in practice for those of us with children or teenagers with additional needs and those of us in churches who want to be better at welcoming people.


Links:

Buy Belonging without Barriers https://www.brfresources.org.uk/belonging-without-barriers

Follow Belonging without Barriers on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/belonging_without_barriers/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61571833391160

Parenting as a Church Leader Day - https://www.brfresources.org.uk/collections/parenting-for-faith-events/products/parenting-as-a-church-leader-day-2

Check out BRF Online https://brfonline.org.uk/pages/parenting-for-faith

Parenting for Faith Additional Needs posts for parents and carers https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/topics/additional-needs/

Parenting for Faith Additional Needs posts for churches https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/topics/additional-needs-and-church/

Send us your questions and stories at parentingforfaith.org/podcast or email us at [email protected]


Thank you for listening today. Parenting for Faith is part of the charity, BRF Ministries. We are reliant on donations from individuals and churches to make our resources available to as many people as possible. If you are able to contribute to the cost of producing this podcast, please click here to give a one-off or regular gift: www.brf.org.uk/get-involved/give. We are grateful for all donations, big or small. They make a real difference. Thank you so much for partnering with us.

In today’s episode, Anna & Jess explore how to tell the ‘big story of the Bible’ to teens and children, especially around Easter. They offer a simple framework to help explain the full story of the Bible (don’t worry, there are only six points!). The Key Tools of Creating Windows, Framing and Unwinding are talked about in examples of how to help your children and teens with understanding the whole story of the Bible.


Links:

Parenting Children for a Life of Faith omnibus: Helping children meet and know God by Rachel Turner

https://www.brfresources.org.uk/collections/parenting/products/parenting-children-for-a-life-of-faith-omnibus-helping-children-meet-and-know-god

The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross Storybook https://www.eden.co.uk/bibles/childrens-bibles/storybook-bibles/age-4-to-7-childrens-storybook-bibles/the-garden-the-curtain-and-the-cross-storybook/

My Big Story Bible: 140 Faithful Stories, from Genesis to Revelation https://www.eden.co.uk/age-8-to-10-childrens-storybook-bibles/tom-wright-childrens-bible/

The Jesus Storybook Bible https://www.eden.co.uk/the-jesus-storybook-bible-anglicised-edition/

Telling the Whole Story [Parent & Carer version] https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/post/telling-the-whole-story-facebook-live/

Telling the Whole Story [Church Leader version] https://www.parentingforfaith.brf.org.uk/post/telling-the-whole-story/

God is Stranger by Krish Kandiah https://www.eden.co.uk/christian-books/theology-books/god-is-stranger-9781473648913/

BRF Online App:

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.uscreen.brfonline&hl=en_GBapple%20apps%20store

Apple https://apps.apple.com/fj/app/brf-online/id6759056009

Send us your questions and stories at parentingforfaith.org/podcast or email us at [email protected]

Thank you for listening today. Parenting for Faith is part of the charity, BRF Ministries. We are reliant on donations from individuals and churches to make our resources available to as many people as possible. If you are able to contribute to the cost of producing this podcast, please click here to give a one-off or regular gift: www.brf.org.uk/get-involved/give. We are grateful for all donations, big or small. They make a real difference. Thank you so much for partnering with us.

In today’s episode, Jess is talking to Gemma Hunt. Gemma is an award-winning TV presenter, children’s author and public speaker, best known for her long-standing work on CBBC and CBeebies, alongside presenting Songs of Praise and BBC Education programmes.

Drawing on her own faith, family life and passion for others to have confidence, Gemma now supports adults, teens and children through storytelling, coaching and conversations. Gemma shares about her own journey with confidence and how is has developed through self-reflection and remembering her identity in God. Jess and Gemma talk about what confidence (or lack of it!) is like when you are parenting and they explore what it looks like in reality to build up a teenager or child’s confidence.

Catch Gemma’s bonus clip at https://brfonline.org.uk/

Links:
● Gemma Hunt on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61581181046020
● Gemma Hunt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gemma__hunt/
● https://www.gemmahunt.com/
● Gemma Hunt's See! Let's Be A Good Friend book - https://www.eden.co.uk/christian-books/christian-books-for-children/christian-fiction-for-children/age-4-to-7/gemma-hunts-see-lets-be-a-good-friend/
● Gemma Hunt's See! Let's Be Me - https://www.eden.co.uk/christian-books/christian-books-for-children/christian-fiction-for-children/age-4-to-7/gemma-hunts-see-lets-be-me/
● Send us your questions and stories at parentingforfaith.org/podcast or email us at [email protected]

Thank you for listening today. Parenting for Faith is part of the charity, BRF Ministries. We are reliant on donations from individuals and churches to make our resources available to as many people as possible. If you are able to contribute to the cost of producing this podcast, please click here to give a one-off or regular gift: www.brf.org.uk/get-involved/give. We are grateful for all donations, big or small. They make a real difference. Thank you so much for partnering with us.