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Dear Parents: By now, many of you have sent your children off to begin a new school year. If not, you will be sending them next week. As a parent of adult children, I remember the “beginning of [...]

Loving God Our goal in Children’s Ministry at Rockpointe is to partner with parents to teach kids to Love God, Love Others, and Share the Gospel. In Matthew chapter 22, Jesus is asked by the [...]

Dear Parents, I love summertime. The weather is warm, kids are outside playing and people just seem to be a little nicer. As a kid, I couldn’t wait for summer. No more school. No more homework. [...]

Dear Parents, I don’t know about you, but teaching responsibility to your children can be one of the most frustrating aspects of parenting. As parents, we assume that responsibility is somehow a [...]

Dear Parents, I don’t know about you, but my wife and I always worried about our kids, but it is when they weren’t with us where we worried the most. When they were with family, close friends or [...]

Losing Well I remember when I realized that I didn’t like to lose. I had just moved from Warren to Utica. I played soccer ever since I was 5 and absolutely loved it. We moved in the fall and all [...]

Loneliness Parenting can be extremely difficult and tiring. It can cause us to feel alone, isolated, and lonely. You may be thinking that this is common and it isn’t a big deal but it is. [...]

Parenting with the end in mind… For each person, parenting brings about different challenges. When children are babies, nighttime feedings and changing diapers can feel like chaos. [...]

Christmas brings many traditions. Each family has their own traditions that they celebrate and pass on to the next generation. My mother would always look for opportunities to teach and guide us [...]

Discipleship Part 2: The Reward I am asked quite a bit about how to get kids to own their faith. As parents, we raise our kids to believe what we believe, but at some point, they have to own [...]