Author: Thereasa Winnett

Thereasa Winnett is the founder of Teach One Reach One and blogger at Parenting Like Hannah. She holds a BA in education from the College of William and Mary. She has served in all areas of ministry to children and teens for more than thirty years and regularly leads workshops for ministries and churches. She has conducted numerous workshops, including sessions at Points of Light’s National Conference on Volunteering and Service, the National Urban Ministry Conference, Pepperdine Bible Lectures, and Lipscomb’s Summer Celebration. Thereasa lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband Greg, where she enjoys reading, knitting, traveling and cooking.

Family Devotional Help

Family Devotional Help - Parenting Like Hannah One of the most important things you can do for your child’s spiritual development is to have regular family devotionals and discussions about godly principles. Many parents are intimidated when they consider family devotionals. Even if they could make the time commitment, what should they study with their children?

Whit’s End Mealtime Devotions: 90 Faith-Building Ideas Your Kids Will Eat Up! (Adventures in Odyssey Books) by Crystal Bowman and Tricia Goyer provides help for the family beginning the habit of daily devotionals. The book contains 90 devotions easy enough for even the most nervous devotional leader to use.

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Surrounding Your Children with Christians

Surrounding Your Children with Christians - Parenting Like Hannah We talked earlier this month about our month-three challenge for teaching your children to live more like Jesus. This month we are adding to our previous challenges of encouraging your children to read their Bibles and pray independently. The challenge this month is to help them develop meaningful relationships with a variety of strong Christians. Men and women who are godly and are willing to help mentor your children. Other children and teens whose parents are actively parenting their children towards God.

Some of you may be wondering how spending time with Christians reflects Jesus and his life. Wasn’t Jesus known for ministering to people who often were rejected by the religious leaders of the time as ungodly? Shouldn’t our children be spending their time trying to share their faith with children who don’t know God? Isn’t that how Jesus lived His life?

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Every Day Ways for Kids to Serve God

Everyday Ways for Kids to Serve God - Parenting Like Hannah After my post on Parents Waiting for God(ot), the question was asked, “What are some every day ways kids can serve God?” Service projects are obvious ways to serve God. I have a ton of ideas for service projects detailed in other posts or pinned on Pinterest. While service projects are great, they are often not things you can do every single day.

There are plenty of other things your children can do every day to serve God. These projects don’t cost any (or much) money or require large blocks of time set aside to do them. There is one important skill you will have to develop in your children though, to make them successful in every day service to God.

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The No Excuses Challenge

King Saul could have been called the King of Excuses. From the time Samuel told Saul he would be king, almost until his death, Saul had an excuse for just about everything. He couldn’t be king because he was from the smallest clan in the smallest tribe. He sacrificed when he wasn’t supposed to because Samuel was taking too long to get there. He didn’t kill animals he was told by God to kill because he was saving them for sacrifices. And on and on. Saul had excuses for why he couldn’t do what God wanted him to do and excuses for why he disobeyed God.

Excuses are one of Satan’s best weapons. From Adam until today, we seem to think excuses will either get us out of doing something we don’t want to do or keep us from getting punished when we do something wrong. Reading the Bible though, gives us a picture of a God who is not fond of excuses (to put it mildly).

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Service Project for Teens

Service Projects for Teens - Parenting Like Hannah Are you in a service rut with the teens in your family or youth group? It seems as if there is an unwritten rule stating all teen service projects must involve painting some portion of a building or doing yard-work. By relying on the same types of service projects over and over (often with only the locale changing), we are denying our teens an opportunity to explore how they can use some of their talents for God.

Recently, we had a few teen girls over to our house to work on a project. Going into this project, all of them claimed to have minimal artistic talent. Yet as you can see, the results were adorable. The girls were making these particular onsies for their youth minister’s new baby. This project would be great for the girls to do again and donate the finished products to shelters catering to mothers and infants who are abused or homeless.

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