Family
- creating and sharing resources for churches and households;
- encouraging leaders with companionship, training and prayer;
- empowering parents to take up their role as the primary faith-influencers of their children;
- protecting children by advancing best practices for the prevention and reporting of child sexual abuse.
RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES
5 WAYS TO PRAY FOR THE CHILDREN IN YOUR CHURCH
Jesus, you placed a child in the midst as an example of how we both enter and live in your Kingdom, so we treasure their presence and pray they may:
- discover a friendship with you marked by wonder and deep joy
- develop confidence in who you made them to be
- develop boldness in loving others, including those who are hard to love
- discern your calling on their lives and on their generation
- be deployed to reveal the Kingdom at every stage of life, gripped by the Good News and empowered by the Spirit
OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
The Rev. Elizabeth Stewart
Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks serves as the director of kids’ small groups at Restoration Anglican Church in Arlington, Virginia. She delights in seeing God’s people flourish. Getting a front row seat to the work the Lord is doing in and through them never ceases to take her breath away!
Terrice Tinsley
Terrice currently serves as the Director of Children’s Ministries at HopePointe Anglican Church in The Woodlands, Texas. Experiencing the wonder of the Gospel through the richness of the liturgy at a young age has inspired her passion to help children discover God’s love for them and equip parents to cultivate their hearts toward strong roots of faith. She has extensive experience in ministry to children of all ages in a variety of arenas: churches, preschools, camps, reading programs and hospitals. Terrice was raised in Austin and she and her husband Richard and their daughters have also enjoyed living in such places as the Black Hills of South Dakota, the North Shore of Boston and the northern and southern borders of Texas.
Amy Stewart
Amy serves as Children’s Ministry Coordinator at St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral in Tallahassee, FL, where she is a strong advocate for shepherding the children within their parish. Her many years of experience teaching children and middle schoolers are an asset in her role. Amy is also an enthusiastic cultivator of ministry supporting the family and of an intergenerational church body. She has two young daughters of her own and a very supportive husband who tackles many volunteer projects to support the ministry. In her spare time, Amy loves to cook, be active outside, or sit down with a good book.
Zach Barton
Zach serves as Director of Children’s Ministry at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul in the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina. Zach grew up in Texas and holds an M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Zach has served churches in Texas, Florida, and mostly recently Boston, MA, before moving to Charleston, SC. He has been married to Jillian for 12 years, and together they have four children.
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