Children and Families

Advent Resources for 2021/2022

• 2022 Advent-at-Home – “Restoration Is Near”
• 2021 Advent-at-Home – “Dare to Imagine”

 At Home Spiritual Practices

• (Oct 9/2020)  Nurturing Awareness Outside
• (Oct 16/2020) Practicing Breath Prayers – for examples see Breath prayers
• (Oct 20/2020) Practicing Silence
• (Nov 6/2020) Creating a Good News Wall
• (Nov 13/2020) Practicing Mantras

Resources for White Parents to Raise Anti-Racist Children  

• Books:
  • Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
  • 31 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance 
  • Five Books You’ve Never Heard of About Race and Diversity (From Pre-K to Teen)
• Podcasts:
  • Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
  • Fare of the Free Child podcast
  • Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
• Articles:
  • PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
  • Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
• The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon

MCC Resources for Families  

• MCC Family Resources
• MCC Centennial Colouring Book

Music and Songs

• Allelu, Allelu! – Easter sing-a-song with Kaylin and Stephanie.
• Kaylin and Stephanie’s Assembly Songs – Thanks to Kaylin and Stephanie for bringing familiar music to us.
• Bryan Moyer Suderman Sing-Alongs –  Bryan has such a great, encouraging spirit.  The sing-alongs can be found at  Facebook.com/SmallTallMusic/videos, and at smalltallministries.com/blog  for those without a Facebook account.