PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 249: Raising Godly Children in an Ungodly Culture, Part 1
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 249: Raising Godly Children in an Ungodly Culture, Part 1
Daniel and Allison Hartman from Pensacola join me today as we talk about passing on the baton of God's truth to our children. Are our children growing up with a biblical worldview? We as parents must first have a biblical worldview. What about the church we are attending? Does it have a biblical worldview?
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! It’s always so great to be with you. And I have to share some beautiful, wonderful news! That is that last week, Colin and I celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. Wow! It doesn’t seem 60 years. It just seems like a blink of our eyes. We’ve been so blessed.
We had one night together at a restaurant with our children and their spouses. That was such a beautiful night. Most amazing conversation, and then the greatest speeches. It ended up that every speech was all about marriage. It was so great!
Then last night, we had a surprise party. We had no idea. Usually, when there’s a surprise going on, I have an inkling. I’m sort of aware of little things that are happening. But I had no idea of this. Actually, I have sitting with me today, and they’re joining me for the podcast, Daniel and Allison Hartman, from Pensacola. Now, Allison has joined with me many times. Each time they come up to stay, we do a podcast together.
This time, Allison called and said, “You know, we’ve got a free weekend. We thought we’d come and spend it with you before we get back to our busy season.” I said, “Oh, that sounds so lovely!” Had no idea they were actually coming up for our surprise 60th!
On the Sunday night, they said, “We’re going to go out! We’re taking you out for a meal.” There was another couple, also. They said, “They’re over at the Wedding Barn. We’ll just have to go and get them.” We drove over to the Wedding Barn which is on Sam and Serene’s property.
I get out of the car and go running in. I thought, “Better get these people! We’re going to be late!” I opened the door, and I could not believe it! There were all these people, all our family, and children and grandchildren, and friends from many, many places. I just could not believe it. It was such a glorious night, just wonderful speeches, and a beautiful meal, and everything. I hope you enjoyed it!
Allison: Oh, it was so wonderful!
Daniel: Amazing!
Allison: Yes, yes. Just the look on your face was amazing! You were so shocked!
Daniel: I saw you from the back as you were running in, saying, “Let’s in the car and go!” I saw you stop, almost like, what is going on?
Allison: It seemed like it took a minute for you to really soak it in what was happening.
Nancy: Yes.
Allison: There were so many people, though, that were so happy to rejoice with you guys. Yeah, it was such a beautiful scene. All the speeches! I loved all the speeches by your grandchildren. They had so many, looking back on . . . your impact on their lives was precious to hear.
Nancy: We were talking in our last two sessions about how we, as a family, love speeches. It was so beautiful.
So, here are Daniel and Allison. They are with us. We’ll do a podcast together. Allison, I think you’ll need to remind everybody about the big family retreat coming up in Florida.
Allison: Yes, yes. We’re super excited! We’re just a month and a half away. Every year we do our annual Above Rubies Family Camp on the Gulf Coast at Panama City Beach, Florida. The location is Laguna Beach Christian Retreat Center. The dates are April 19-26.
It has turned out to be, over the last ten, fifteen years, the largest family camp. Right now, we’re hitting about 95 families that have already registered. We probably have room for maybe five to ten more families before we’re maxed out. It’s going to be a week-long retreat, conference. Tons of fun.
Our theme that we’re going for, is “Raising a Godly Family in an Ungodly Culture.” We all see where culture’s heading. As Christians, we really have to take a different direction on raising our children. It’s not that we can’t do it, it’s that we have to be very intentional in how we’re raising them. Not just be willing to go with the flow, go with culture. If culture says let your children all have iPhones, then we just do it. No, we raise them in a different way.
This whole week is going to be encouraging families to do that. Also, just meeting other families is so encouraging. Like-minded families. You’re going to be blown away. I was just talking to a family last night. They said, “When I came to the retreat, I realized I’m not alone. There are so many of my people out there. I just didn’t even know it.”
Nancy: Yes, actually it’s a family retreat, but we love all the young people. Bring all your young people! Oh, we have more young people than anyone else, don’t we?
Allison: Oh, absolutely! The adults are completely outnumbered. It’s more like a big, giant youth retreat, but we don't separate the youth. It’s so much fun. It’s on the Gulf, so you’re on the beach. We have five or six pools. There’s volleyball, there’s basketball, there’s bunker ball. You name it. There’s every activity you can imagine. Walking distance, too, are a coffee shop and donuts. So much fun. Fishing.
Daniel: If the surf’s up, I’m out surfing. I’ll add that there’s a little lake right there that we go out in the boat as well, and let people ski.
Allison: Lots of good free time in the afternoons. A good chunk of the afternoon is free time. It’s such a fun thing to do with your family. But yeah, young people, singles, single moms, grandparents, the whole thing is, everyone’s invited.
Nancy: Yes, we believe in bringing the whole family together. In fact, generations. We can have four generations there. We had another baby shower on the weekend. We had a bridal shower the weekend before. Our lives seem to be going from one bridal shower to one baby shower to another.
I was taking a four-generation picture of myself as the great-grandmother, Serene as the grandmother, Chalice as the mother (who’s due in one week) and then her little baby, Marvel. It’s so wonderful to live generationally. It’s a beautiful thing to do.
When you go away for a week, I remember when we lived in New Zealand. Back in those days, we would have our annual holiday. We would take, of course, our whole family, but we never thought of ever going without our grandparents! My parents who were the children’s grandparents. They lived in a different city, but they would always come and meet and be with us. That was such an important part for my children.
So, bring your parents along too! The grandparents, or whether they’re grandparents, or great-grandparents! You just bring everybody! It’s so great.
Allison: My last thing to say: we led your ladies’ retreats for years, or I did. But when you get the whole family involved, it’s a long-lasting effect, because when you have your husband on board, and you have your children on board . . . We have eleven children, and they range from 24 down to two. My entire family is there, and they all want to be there, because we’ve made them feel like this is a family thing. This isn’t Mom going off to a ladies’ retreat.
Now, that’s fine, and that’s fun and wonderful. But when you have the whole family there, it brings a whole different facet to this message. Because you’re all on board, if that makes sense.
Nancy: Yes. And then, talking about this familyness, this togetherness, now you have just recently begun having a church family in your home, because you haven’t been able to find that real family togetherness anywhere else, although you tried for years.
Allison: We really have. We bounced from a couple of churches. Sadly, one thing we really found was that most churches are very program-driven. Program-driven means “age-chunking.” I liked how Suzanne said that “age-chunking.” The older folks, you go to your class, and then the younger folks, you go to your class. And the Generation X-er’s, you go to your class, and then the Generation Y, there’s so many. Then the young children, you go to your class. The babies, you go to your class.
Well, guess what? When you walk into church, you’re immediately divided. Juh, juh, juh, juh, juh, juh. There is no unity. Therefore, the opposite of unity would be division. Then, when you get home, you all hear ten different messages. You’re not on the same page.
Then you start the work week. Well, guess what? Dad goes to work, Mom’s at home, the children are in programs and sports. It’s continual. We said, “We’ve got to get unified. We have to do church as a family.” So, we sought out. . .
Daniel: The best way that I like to say it is, everyone wants my children. They’re a valuable asset. I want my children. I want to have that influence in my children’s life, truly based on that verse, “Turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children’s to the father’s.”
It is my duty to have the Bible study at home, and then to worship together, and to do everything together. Truly that is the Biblical concept. There are never these programs. It’s always when the church is pictured, it’s fathers, mothers, children, together in the Lord, and learning and growing together.
Nancy: Oh yes, yes! Anyway, you were telling me you’re going, at the moment, to a Biblical world view class which sounds great. But, tell me all about what’s happened there.
Allison: Well, we’ve actually done this course before, a year ago. It’s called “Biblical Citizenship.” Rick Green is a state rep in Texas. It’s a great program. Rick Green and . . .
Daniel: David Barton. WallBuilders.
Allison: David Barton, WallBuilders, and Kirk Cameron. They do this video series. So anyway, we took the class. Just recently, we found out that the class is offered in our town at another church. We don’t go there, but it seems like a great church.
Well, when we went, it was all older folks in the class. There were five or six older people. The first night we went, we brought our children, because that’s what we do. Then the next night, we invited two or three other families. By that week, we had 26 extra people there. Most of them were children.
Nancy: And by the way, right down to your youngest, how old?
Allison: All the way to my two-year-old. We were all listening. They all were gleaning different things. Even though maybe the four-year-old wasn’t getting the whole message, they got some stuff out of it.
Sadly, we were told by the leader of the class that there were some complaints about noise, because there were children in an adult class. They really wanted all the children that were in fifth grade and under to be in a children’s program. They asked us if we would please do that.
I’ve never been known to be someone who just says, “OK, sure, whatever.” I pretty much argue and fight anything if I feel like it’s a principle. I’m not going to go along with it. I said, “I appreciate you telling me this, but honestly, this is unacceptable. This is not OK. I’m not going to have my children in a program when I’m here to hear about patriotism and the Constitution. I want them to learn what our Founding Fathers did. Our Founding Fathers would be mortified if they found out that children were in a children’s program when they could have been learning!” I said, “No, I’m not OK with that.”
She goes, “Well, what should I do?” She’s actually a city councilwoman in our city. I said, “Go fight for us.” And she did. She went and talked to the church, and they made the decision that they would allow us to come. We would have to take children out that were noisy. I said, “Absolutely. That’s acceptable. That wouldn’t be anything I wouldn’t do anyway.”
We ended up taking the class as a family. But it was so interesting to me that they didn’t see this as an amazing opportunity to have children, fathers, all learning the same thing. It was foreign to them. I don’t think they meant harm. I think it’s all they know. This is what churches are doing. They’re looking just like public school, private school, right? You go, and you separate by age. That’s all they know.
Well, like we said earlier, we feel, me and my husband, we feel like the reason that children are leaving church once they hit that teenage age, is because they really haven’t been a part of their family their whole upbringing. They’ve been in different classes. They’re not a part of their family.
People in our town that know us, they’re amazed at our adult children spending so much time with us, and desiring to be with us. That is why we decided we had to start a family-integrated church in our home, because it was so rare. We want our children to be worshipping together as a family. I think it is so critical.
Nancy: Oh, yes! Yes! I think we have to begin to see and live biblically. It’s so easy to just succumb to what everybody does. Colin and I were just sharing with the folks last night some of our early start of our life and how Colin went out full time for the Lord when we were engaged. We’ve been in mission and church work since that time.
We started off pastoring, doing it the normal way. We had our Sunday schools, and we had our youth groups. We thought this was great, and we had all our programs. Until one day, we discovered that no matter how much we looked, we couldn’t find that in the Word of God. It wasn’t there.
Every time God brought His people together, he brought them all together as families, including the children, including the suckling babes, including even the little toddlers. A number of the Scriptures that talk about when God brought His people to listen to His Word, it uses the word taph in the Hebrew. That particular word means “the tripping gait of little children.” It’s the toddler stage. “Well, those are the ones we just don’t want in our midst! Goodness me! Let’s just have them baby-sat, because how can they sit and listen?”
But God wanted them all there. Even in Joel chapter 2:16 where it talks about coming to fast and pray, even for such a solemn time as that, God includes the suckling babes. Everyone! God sees us as families. Now, it’s the devil’s ploy to separate us as families.
We had to come to that place of realizing, OK, what we were doing was just what everybody does. Then we began to have church together, families included. That is not actually so popular. You won’t get everybody to your church. Why?
Because when families haven’t trained their children at home, they bring their children, and goodness, how could they even sit and hear a message unless they put their children in the nursery and the Sunday school, because they wouldn’t even know how to control them. But you see, we start in the home. We have to learn how to train our children to sit and how to listen. It’s all training. That’s why many are quite happy to go to their churches where everything is all separate. It’s so much easier.
Allison: Oh, yeah.
Nancy: And even when we’re together, there’s always a little baby crying, or this happening. Some may not like it, but it’s life! We’ve got to learn to live as families.
Allison: The whole concept of this multi-generational church is such a beautiful thing. For a little one, they’re watching everything we do. How are they going to learn to worship if they don’t see their moms worship, and their grandmas worship?
I was telling you before the podcast I actually had someone I talked to in a church one time, and I said, “I don’t see you here every Sunday.” And she said, “Well, it’s because I go to a different church every other Sunday just so I can worship all by myself, with no distractions from my children.” And she was bragging about that, as if it was a really good idea to just go to one. Probably like a girls’ night out with Mom-time, Me-time, Me-time. And she would go to a different church, just to have worship time.
That set so badly with me. I thought there was something that was wrong with that, but for years, I couldn’t put my finger on it until just recently. We watched this documentary called Divided. This young, homeschooled boy . . . it was years ago. A documentary, and we just happened to watch it recently. A light bulb came on as my husband and I were watching this.
The young boy set out to answer the question, why are young people leaving the churches in droves? 85% are leaving the churches. Why? By the end of the documentary, he came up with the answer.
The whole idea of discipling children is the role of the father. But in churches we have replaced that and put youth pastor in its place. A lot of people will say, “Well, the youth pastor is great for the street kids. The unchurched. They don’t have a father, so we need a youth program.”
No, you need fathers in that church to rise up and take in those street kids. That will take care of that problem. But instead of losing your youth, losing your young people, they’re so driven. They’re so connected as a family because the father has been the youth pastor. The father has been the shepherd. It was a game-changer for us.
We talked earlier before the podcast that we actually were asked to leave a church because of this very thing, because they were offended that we wouldn’t send our children to youth groups. They couldn’t understand it. They thought we thought we were better than them. It isn’t about that!
It’s that Daniel’s job, my husband’s job, is to raise our children, not the youth pastor! And there’s nothing that’s innately wrong with having fun youth activities, but when it’s done to replace the father, it’s absolutely detrimental to the family. It has to be. . . You’re right. It’s not in the Bible. These Sunday schools, youth programs, are not in the Bible. It is man’s creation, and it is destroying the family. I just recently realized how important this is.
Nancy: Well, the latest statistics are that only six percent of the church has a biblical worldview. I think this is a part of it, too. Even our worldview of church, in fact, of so many things. I keep finding new things in the Word of God all the time that, wow! I don’t line up with this! We’ve been doing it this way all our lives but it’s not in the Word.
We’ve got to become Word-people. We’ve got to get a true Biblical worldview so that we’re thinking what God thinks, and what He says, and His plan on every issue of our lives. So, of course, a big part of that is our church life. When we bring our children into the church life, we are saying, “Children, this is how it’s meant to be.” Well, are what we bringing them into exactly what it reveals in the church in the Bible?
In fact, it’s interesting, we go back to the early church, and they really are our example, aren’t they? In 1 Corinthians 14:26, this is a picture of the early church. It’s actually quite different to most churches. “How is it then, brethren? when ye come together,” notice that “come together.” Oh, there’s so many Scriptures about that in the Word.
Some Christians today don’t even believe that. They don’t believe you have to come together. “I love God. I believe God but I don’t have to go to church.” They’ve got all their different excuses. But God loves the coming together of His people. He loves it.
“How is it then, brethren? When ye come together.” He knows that we can’t really walk victoriously in our faith isolated. We need one another. Our faith is a mutual faith. It’s a together faith. It’s a me-and-you faith. Romans 1:12 tells us that. Paul is writing to the new Christians, and he says: “Our mutual faith of you and me.”
OK, so you come together, every one of you. It’s not talking about pew-sitters. “No, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done until edifying.” We see there such a coming together and participation of the whole body.
In our fellowship, we usually have someone, my husband, or sometimes someone else, will give a good word so that we are really getting fed, but we have opportunity for sharing from others from the body, because that’s the example of the early church. Today, young children, yes, we do have young children getting up. We have young people who get up and pray and give a word.
In a modern church, they’re all just pew-sitters. How can they ever grow into young men and women of God if they haven’t got an opportunity to share of the Word, or to get up and pray? They’ve got to learn how to participate.
Daniel: That verse, specifically that verse, we started reading each chapter in Corinthians. Because of that verse, I wanted to see, as a family, what the whole book looked like. By the time we got to chapter 12, we actually started our own church. It was because of that specific verse, 1 Corinthians 14:26: “When ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. . . Let all things be done decently and in order,” in order to edify.
I had never really seen that done anywhere other than here at this church. I felt like I was starving for that. If you want to shift gears into the Jesus Revolution movie, that is pictured in that movie to some degree, but not showcased. That is what I would consider to really make a difference in people’s lives.
Myself, I was in a home group in a Calvary Chapel church back in ’91, ’90 -’91. I would say it was a hugely pivotal point in my life, because I grew so incredibly much, because it was in this group setting. It was comfortable. I could speak; I could share my thoughts. I could grow. I was in the Word, just studying all the time.
I did not have a father, so I chose men in this group, and other men to take that role. I was able to choose all these amazing attributes that were good and leave out the ones that I didn’t think were so good. It really helped me. Really, that’s where they met in the New Testament, was in people’s homes.
Going back to “turning the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers,” that specific verse, when it says it at the very end, it gives a curse to the earth, “I’ll come and strike the land and utterly destroy it.” I’m going to read the whole Scripture. “Remember the law of Moses, my servant, that I gave him at Horeb, for all Israel, both the decrees and the laws. Pay attention. I am sending Elijah the prophet to you before the great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. And He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I’ll come and strike the land and utterly destroy it.”
Nancy: That’s so powerful, isn’t it?
Daniel: What it says to me is that it’s my job to take that mantle and become that verse. The consequences are great if I don’t. I’ve got to figure out, through the Word, how I’m going to apply and how I’m going to take into account that verse and build God’s church, not mine. Include my children, include families, as God did, as Jesus did, sitting on the hillside, with the men, women, and children, and truly grow together in Christ and walk in the Spirit.
Nancy: Yes. And another thing too, is that we’ve got to get beyond the normal way we see church. That we come to church and that’s doing the right thing, yes. And I believe it. At least, if you’re doing that, you’re doing something, because we know Hebrews 10:24: “Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together.”
YOU CAN’T MISS THE FELLOWSHIP
There’s that “together” again. “As a manner of some is, so much the more as ye see the day approaching.” But church and coming together, you see, it’s a coming together, it’s not just coming just to come in—we worship, we hear a message, and we go home. No, it is fellowship. We go back to the example of the early church in Acts 2:42. What does it say? “And they continued steadfastly.” It tells us four things here.
Number One. IN THE APOSTLES’ DOCTRINE
That was in teaching. Doctrine is so important. In fact, all of Jesus’ teaching, all the apostles’ teaching, all of Paul’s teaching, the whole Word is doctrine. We’ve got to know doctrine. Doctrine has to be part of this. It has to live in us.
I love that Scripture in 2 John 1:9: “Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.” Isn’t that an amazing Scripture? But we are to continually apply the apostles’ doctrine.
Number two. FELLOWSHIP
We’ve got to have time for fellowship. At our church fellowship here, we always have a fellowship meal after the service. Everyone brings a dish, and we get out the tables and chairs. We sit around and fellowship.
This is really, perhaps, even it’s as great, or even greater, than the first part of our coming together, because we’re having more intimate fellowship. Everyone is talking about their week, but they’re talking about the Lord. They’re talking about Scripture. They’re talking about their ideas. We’re getting to feel one another’s hearts. In fact, I never have time to talk to everyone! You just get to one or two or three each time because you get into conversation.
But it’s so wonderful! I think, wow, if we didn’t have that! I would only know people in a surface way. It’s only when we sit, and we put our feet under a table, and we begin to talk together, that it is true fellowship.
Number three. BREAKING OF BREAD
“And in breaking of bread.” That was not only communion, folks. This is what they called coming together to have a meal. Back in those days, “breaking of bread” (you’ve heard the phrase “break bread together”). That’s where you actually break bread.
In the Middle East, when you eat, you break the bread. You break the flat bread and you dip it in the dish, in the hummus, in the baba ghanoush. You’re eating together. You see, fellowship is always more powerful when you’re eating together. Either after church together, a fellowship meal, or when you’re inviting people to your home and showing hospitality. We do this now.
But we have also been in churches where we didn’t have fellowship meals. When that was the case, we always invited people home. We would have up to thirty or forty people coming into our home. We’d have them just sitting around our big table, and then our children would find another place, because they’d invite their friends. It was fellowship going on throughout the whole home. Because this is the pattern of the early church.
Number four. PRAYERS
“And in prayers.” They were committed to prayer. That is so powerful, too. So, if you just go to church on Sunday, but you’re not involved in a prayer meeting in that church fellowship, or with other believers, it’s not really, it’s not the early church.
CONTINUING DAILY
Then it goes on, down in the latter part of the chapter, verse 46: “And they continuing,” again, it’s “continuing.” “Continuing daily, with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house.” They ate together at one another’s homes. “And ate their meat,” their food, “with gladness and singleness of heart, having great fellowship together, praising God, and having favor with all the people, and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.” When they lived that lifestyle, daily, the Lord added daily to the church.
Allison: So good. I was asking you yesterday what should we do? We’re a brand-new church, starting a church in our home. I was trying to decide, do we do a fellowship meal? Maybe once a month? So, I sat my family down and we talked about it. My older girls are the ones that are going to be fixing food. I didn’t want to make the decision for everybody.
I thought, “Hey, what do we think? Do we want to do just once a month?” And all of them said, “Why would we not do it every week? That’s the best part, Mom. You know, having everybody go outside, play volleyball together, the fellowship part. Unanimously my children decided. I thought they would say, “You know, we really need to have family time, at least every couple of weeks.” But no, they didn’t look at it as a negative. They looked at it as a positive. Of course, they’d want fellowship the whole time.
Nancy: Yes, and that’s what our children growing up, they just loved the fellowship, the hospitality. It was such a blessing. In fact, I can remember one time in our lives. It was a time when we were raising our children. We were always having hospitality.
I said to Colin, “Oh, Darling, let’s just have a break this one Sunday. We’re always having people. Just let us ask nobody this Sunday.” So, we didn’t. We all came home, and do you know what? It was the most boring Sunday of our whole lives! [laughter] We didn’t know what to do. We were bored out of our brains. We never ever did it again!
Allison: Really!
Nancy: The children were bored and we were bored. I think, “People go home after church, what do they do?” Well, of course, I know, many just put the TV on, or they go out to sports, or they go out. But that’s not what we’re meant to do. This is the day for His people. It’s not an hour. It’s a day. It’s a DAY we give to the Lord. But anyway, why does time go?
Allison: I know! It’s amazing.
Nancy: One more advertisement for the retreat!
Allison: This totally takes us back into where we said in the beginning, the whole reason why we started doing these family camps was to give vision to families, that they’re so important. Your ministry has, yes, people think of your ministry as a women’s ministry. But it really isn’t. It’s a family, it’s the whole concept, it’s the whole picture of families being together.
The beauty of these family camps is, number one, you can come and have a wonderful, fun family vacation. But you can meet other like-minded families and you will be amazed. You will leave, come as strangers, leave as friends. So many people at your party last night were from the retreats.
One of them came up to me, and they said, “You know, we told Nana and Granddad how thankful we are of watching them. But we really want to tell you, thank you for putting these retreats on! Some of my best friends now we met at the retreat.”
We’re going to encourage moms and dads to raise their children in a godly way and not just go with culture. Part of that is not just being involved in a church and dividing up your family. Don’t feel like that’s something you have to do! You can start a different way of doing things. It’s going to be a good thing for your family.
Daniel: Like-minded children. Your children seeing other like-minded children could save them from the world. If that doesn’t happen, it’s best if there’s no outside influences that could steal their heart. Whereas, when other children are in the same, exact, like-minded situation, it changes your children for the better. I see it every time.
Nancy: Amen! That’s so powerful, Daniel. And just before I’m going to ask you to close in prayer today, I want to remind you ladies, don’t forget to tune in next week, because I’m going to be interviewing Michael Tate, the lead singer of the Newsboys.
You’re most probably aware that every podcast starts with and ends with a song written by Michael, that beautiful song, “In That Home” which he wrote about his mother. His mother had the biggest, biggest heart that reached out to so many hurting souls. You’ll hear more about that next week. I’m sure you’re going to love it. Your young people will all want to tune in as well. So, can you pray, Daniel?
Daniel: Dear God, thank You for this time to think on You, to think on Your Word, to think on Your kingdom, God. I speak a blessing over each individual that’s listening right now, God. Just touch them in a special way, God. Let these words sink into their hearts and minds, God. Give us all Your mantle of wisdom to walk with You with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength, and love each other as ourselves. In Jesus’ Name, amen.
Nancy: Amen!
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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ABOVE RUBIES FAMILY RETREAT IN FLORIDA
April 19 - 26th at Laguna Beach Christian Resort
This is our biggest retreat serving over 100 families during our week of fellowship, sessions with Nancy and Colin Campbell, breakout sessions with gifted speakers and teachers, family activities, and incredible worship! Come as a friend and leave as family!
If you aren’t already registered, sign up now! We still have room!
Registration fee $300 (non-refundable).
Housing is assigned through Above Rubies but payment for your housing will go directly to Laguna. Click here for the website to register:
https://aboverubiesgulfcoast.com/
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