Partner at Every Level

When you take out sickness, sports, holidays, and random family issues, the church will only have about 40 hours of potential influence with a kid each year. Compare that to the 3000 hours the average parent or guardian has to influence their child and it’s easy to see that what happens at home is MORE important than what happens at church. 


If we, as leaders, can engage every parent to do something at home, even something small, we can radically increase our influence in a kid or teenager’s life. When we view every parent as a potential partner, we can influence parents to do more to connect their family to the bigger story of God.


In Partner at Every Level, Mike Clear (director of Children’s Strategy for Orange) challenges leaders to rethink the way they partner with parents so they become more AWARE, INVOLVED, ENGAGED, and INVESTED in the spiritual growth of their kids. Because engaging parents to do something more, even small things, makes a big difference.


Partner at Every Level is an ebook you can read in one sitting, by Orange, a division of The reThink Group. For more resources like this, visit ThinkOrange.com and OrangeBooks.com.