How To Celebrate Lent With Kids w/ Vanessa Myers

What if your family could discover new purpose and spiritual growth this Lent by wondering together about the Easter story?On this episode of the Collide Kids Podcast, host Christen Clark sits down with Vanessa Myers, children's minister, author, and founder of Family Faith Builders, for an inspiring conversation about raising Christian kids, faith at home, and meaningful family time during Lent. Vanessa shares practical ways families can build discipleship, nurture spiritual growth, and live out their faith—plus, insight into her latest devotional that invites kids and parents to dive deeper and wonder through the Easter story.Resources:familyfaithbuilders.orgWondering to Jerusalem on AmazonWebsite: collidekidspodcast.comInstagram: @collidekidspod*Special thanks to our editor Jay Lee from provisionpods.com! Clip Finder:Empowering Families to Live Out Their Faith: "That's what my heart is for, is for families, moms and dads, grandparents, whoever, you know, at home to spend time together in the word, praying together and talking and living out their faith, you know."— Vanessa Myers [00:03:32 → 00:03:42]Using Imagination to Explore Historical Stories: "God doesn't give us, He doesn't always give us all the details of things. So I help kids use their wonder and imagination and thinking more about the story...— Vanessa Myers [00:10:36 → 00:10:55]Why Did People Recline at the Table?: "When I was doing my research, you know, they [reclined at the table to eat]. They really embraced the Roman style of dining because they were under the Roman rule at that time in history. And so Romans, you know, set up long tables, low, long tables, and they reclined like this, you know, so like with their feet facing away. And just that really was interesting to me."— Vanessa Myers [00:12:22 → 00:13:03]Viral Topic Title: Lent Sacrifices and Their True Purpose  Quote: "It's not just giving up and, oh, I'm gonna give up this food because I wanna lose weight, you know, or whatever. Like, it's really taking that sacrifice and focusing it on the Word and reading the Word, you know? So that's what I tell kids. It's not just giving up something for fun."— Vanessa Myers [00:18:05 → 00:18:20]Title: The Most Important DecisionOne of my favorite parts about the book at the end is really helping them to understand what it means to make the greatest decision of their life, and that's to follow Jesus, and what that looks like, and why it's important, and how to live that out. — Vanessa Myers [00:19:40 → 00:20:00]Viral Topic – Nostalgic Easter Traditions: "We would walk to church every Sunday, Easter Sunday morning. And we would come home and we'd have our big Easter meal, which consisted of pot roast and potatoes and carrots. And everybody had their own seat. Cousins, aunts, uncles, we all were there. I just remember those, the egg hunts that we had at the church."— Vanessa Myers [00:21:59 → 00:22:16] Bark proactively works to monitor, detect, and alert you to potential issues on your kids' devices. Visit bark.us to learn more about how you can keep your kids safe online. Use the code COLLIDEKIDS to get 15% off Your Bark Technologies Plan !Support the show