Family Resources

Resources for Teaching Faith At Home

Spiritual Age-Level Characteristics of Children and Young Teens - For parents: Learn the Age-Level Characteristics of Children and Young Teens including Intellectual, Social and Spiritual characteristics
Practicing Faith at Home - Rev. Traci Smith, author of "Faithful Families" has created short, instructional videos to guide parents through creating faith practices around mindfulness, serving others, meal time and bedtime for children and youth of all ages.
Real Kids Real Faith - Raising Spiritual Kids

Helping Children With Scary News: An article from Sally Lloyd-Jones, author of the Jesus Storybook Bible
How To Help A Child Struggling With Anxiety is a podcast episode from NPR's LifeKit that is also extremely helpful. This short listen has concrete tips that are fantastic.
Movies That Help Parents and Children Understand Grief and Loss – with helpful discussion questions for ages 3-18

Bible Storytime with Rachel T - One of WCF's very own is reading stories from the Jesus Storybook Bible. Watch anytime with your children and bring them into God's story! For kids ages 0-11
The Meeting House - 20 minute videos that include a Bible lesson, memory verse, and thoughtful questions to get kids thinking. They have a large catalog of Bible stories for kids (ages 5-11), middle schoolers, and high schoolers.
Life Church Early Childhood Bible Videos - 22 minute episodes on youtube for very young children: 0-4 years old. It's basically Blue's Clues with Bible stories.
The Bible Project - Excellent videos exploring theology and scripture, each focusing on a different book of the Bible or theme from scripture - for teens and adults
6 Movies to Start Spiritual Conversations with Kids and what we can learn from them. For kids ages 3-14
The Bible App for Kids: Animated stories and interactive maps of Bible stories for kids