How to keep your church from losing 75% of the children raised in your Church shortly before or after their 18th birthday.

A good starting place is God's COMMANDS to parents…. the second half of the greatest commandment Deut. 6:5-9 …. The verses after the AND … (Six you shalls in 4 verses)

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."

We will start with the end of verse 7 because IT IS SIMPLE LIFELONG AND UNBELIEVABLY powerful: "talk of them when you lie down, and when you rise." …there is no better help for Christian Parents than a bedside bible calendar…starting and ending each day with thoughts of God then praying together that God move the verse from your heads to your hearts…then

Middle of Verse 7 "talk of them when you sit in your house," (We like best the Bible Coloring pages at www.bibleparent.com) Put some out as parent takehome so families TALK while they color then go to

verse 9 "write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates"…just the place for the pages you just colored…a constant in home REMINDER to both parent and child….TWO good reasons to download as many coloring pages as your church has parents. Then

Back to middle of verse seven; "when you walk by the way"…There is nothing like walking to help parent and child focus on each other, memories that will last a lifetime…take a bag or egg carton to collect some of the things God has made. Try the 20 plus different kinds of walks at www.bibleparent.com...then Then verse six: "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts." In other words "If we are to see our children saved we must let God save us utterly, completely and daily.


Charles White is a retired preschool teacher and lifelong volunteer with the salvation army. He has spent forty years building www.bibleparent.com and www.teachustopray.com, two websites filled with parent takehomes. He prays as many people as possible visit the sites and share them.


If PARTNERING with PARENTS WAS NOT A KEY ISSUE God would never have connected these four verses to the greatest commandment by the word AND. and VBS projects Galore