How to Teach Faith through Veggies and Journalling w/ Mike Nawrocki & Sarah Humphrey

Welcome to this week's exciting episode of the Collide Kids Podcast! Host Christen Clark is delighted to introduce two fantastic guests—Mike Nawrocki, co-creator of VeggieTales, and Sarah Humphrey, author and Mom Creative. Together they are the hosts of "The Bible for Kids" podcast.In this episode, Mike shares his fascinating journey co-creating VeggieTales. You'll learn how beloved characters Bob and Larry were born and how VeggieTales has been teaching kids about God's love since 1993. Mike also gives us a sneak peek into his current project, "Dead Sea Squirrels," a book series that's soon to become an animated series.Sarah Humphrey talks about her 25-year writing journey, inspired by a spiritual calling to journal, leading to her first book, "40 Days to Joyful Motherhood," and her work in children’s devotionals like "Solomon Says Devotional." She’s currently exploring new projects in children's fiction as her own kids grow.Together, Mike and Sarah discuss their podcast, "The Bible for Kids," which offers valuable resources for Christian parents. You’ll also enjoy light-hearted moments, including jokes and riddles, adding fun to this faith-filled episode. Plus a very special version of a VeggieTales classic song in our Kids Only Segment featuring Liam Smith!Clip Finder"Reviving Christian Bookstores through Podcasts": "The podcast was actually Dan's idea, and it was born out of the desire to help serve the need that was met largely by christian bookstores for so long, where folks could walk into their local christian bookstore and say, okay, what's new out there."— Mike Nawrocki [00:09:26 → 00:09:45]"Balancing Life as a Homeschool Mom": "Well, I'm Sarah Humphrey. I am a mother of three, a homeschool mom. So we were actually doing school a little bit earlier today. I'm an author. I'm a guest teacher at Pure Bar, where we do exercise for women."— Sarah Humphrey [00:04:18 → 00:04:33]Motherhood and Devotion: "So I like to write just in a variety of different styles, but most of the time, I've been doing a lot of devotionals because I think a lot of busy parents might have five minutes in the morning to, like, feed themselves with something."— Sarah Humphrey [00:15:15 → 00:15:30]Exploring Fiction in Parenting: "I'm just learning kind of a little bit about story and figuring out how to kind of work a fictional story or narrative into my daily life with what's happening kind of around me."— Sarah Humphrey [00:17:36 → 00:17:48]The Time-Travelling Squirrels: "Merle and Pearl Squirrel are a couple of first century squirrels or an old jewish couple. Merle has always wanted to take a vacation to the Dead Sea because he heard that you can't sink."— Mike Nawrocki [00:19:32 → 00:19:42]Growing Up with Comedy and Faith: "I grew up just loving to make people laugh, you know, I was a biggest Muppets fan, Jim Henson fan. I love Monty Python growing up, Mel Brooks movies, and my deep, deep love was the Doctor Demento radio hour, which was like a radio parody music hour. And it's where guys like Weird Al Yankovic got his start."— Mike Nawrocki [00:26:16 → 00:26:41]VeggieTales Creator Explains the Show's Mission: "The hope was just to, yeah, help kids obviously know that God made them special and he loves them very much. But then also to, you know, have this awareness of this story, you know, the biblical, you know, just God's. God's story of the Bible and have, you know, be able to carry that throughout their lives and then come back and read the real story and say, oh, okay, I remember this because of this and all that."— Mike Nawrocki [00:31:36 → 00:31:56] 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