How To Create Simple Faith Traditions for Your Family at Christmas w/ Christie Thomas

What if practicing just one tiny habit together could spark powerful spiritual growth in your family all year long?

On this episode of the Collide Kids Podcast, host Christen Clark sits down with Christie Thomas, veteran children’s ministry leader, author, and fellow mom, to talk about raising Christian kids, faith at home, and making discipleship doable... even during the busiest seasons! Hear practical inspiration for building faith-filled family time, why you don’t need to be a spiritual “expert,” and fresh ideas for simple but meaningful spiritual habits during Christmas and all year.

Resources:

• Christie’s Website: littleshootsdeeproots.com 
• Book Amazon List: amazon.com/shop/christenclark/list/1RLTNBPSOOZY5
• Website: collidekidspodcast.com
• Instagram: @collidekidspod

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Finding Your Calling: "But when it kind of became official as something that I actually got paid for, when was during my term as a children's ministry director, I did that for most of 12 years. Had a few babies in there, but Most of the 12 years I was doing that. And in that time I started writing things for families to take home and I ended up publishing those take home pages as a book."

— Christie Thomas [00:05:32 → 00:05:55]

Changing Career Dreams: "But yeah, it is very cool that God did take what I loved when I was a child and kind of, I stopped writing probably for 15, 20 years, like creatively and. But then he brought it back into my life."

— Christie Thomas [00:07:49 → 00:07:59]

Letting Go of Parenting Pressure: "I started talking to other families and realized, you know what? This looks different in every family. So even though books are, you know, the, the big names of the day, it doesn't have to look like that."

— Christie Thomas [00:08:55 → 00:09:31]

The Power of Little Things in Discipleship: "I can't take my child's heart of stone and turn it into a heart of flesh, or only God can do that. So I started realizing, well, what can I do? Well, I can do these little things."

— Christie Thomas [00:09:31 → 00:10:07]

Going Beyond Sunday School: "And his teacher, who'd been teaching there for like 20 years, during parent teacher interviews, she says, he knows a lot about the Bible. And I thought, okay, doesn't everybody? Like, we're all Christian school kids here. But he stood out for that."

— Christie Thomas [00:10:29 → 00:10:42]

Viral Parenting Strategies: "I could take that to God and I could say, what's something small? That I could do something that takes like 30 seconds and he would give me ideas."

— Christie Thomas [00:11:41 → 00:11:50]

Parenting Hack for Faithful Families: "the purpose of it is to be an interactive play based devotional...it's also designed for you to sit on one Bible story for a whole week because I originally wrote it to go along with my Sunday school lessons so that families would take this home, they'd have five days of really simple things to do at home that they would actually remember to do because it was simple and short and, and consistent."

— Christie Thomas [00:22:37 → 00:22:56]

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