Encouraging grandparents
Children’s Worker Ester van Dijk, from the parish of Leatherhead, has been interested in the role of grandparents in children’s faith journeys after researching it in her native Holland. There, she discovered that children learned more from their grandparents about the Christian faith than from their parents. She now holds grandparents’ meetings in her English parishes to talk about how the older generation becomes involved in supporting their grandchildren’s faith. She thinks the meetings will be held about four times a year. In meetings so far, the format follows this loose outline:-
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