Becoming a parent is one thing that changes our lives forever and some days it all just seems to be too much. Wherever we look there is advice coming from every direction. And what is right one week may not be the right thing to do next week! Then we are to build “partnerships” with parents in our work as…
From the moment our daughter could make any sound at all, she has been a singer and music maker. I have a vivid memory of her as a one-year-old, pushing her walker full of wooden bricks and whistling! It seems that music is part of her DNA, and it is undoubtedly part of her spiritual DNA. It is such a…
After our very first visit to the New Wine Summer camp as a new Christian family, the car journey home was full of singing. Captain Alan Price had made an impression that would never be forgotten as we heartily sang “It’s an adventure following Jesus. It’s an adventure learning from him”. Those days were our first introduction to life in…
Train up a child… This is such a well known verse and is perhaps the aim of many of our Christian nurseries and preschools around the country. I love the photo of the two boys running off as there, just ahead, is a corner. We cannot see what is just around there. There is a mystery that we cannot solve!…
Who can fail to smile at this lovely photo? Pure, uninhibited joy and laughter.One of the most wonderful things about working with our youngest children is how easily they laugh and how much fun there is every day. God tells us “the joy of the Lord” is our strength. There is nothing like laughing together, and nothing will life our…