Child Faith: Experiencing God and Spiritual Growth with your Children by Donald and Brenda Ratcliff
Facilitating Faith in Children: A book review of Donald and Brenda Ratcliff, Child Faith: Experiencing God and Spiritual Growth with your Children (Cascade Books: Eugene, OR, 2010).
How do we help our children develop a genuine faith in Christ? This is a question that is asked by most every Christian parent, along with most every pastor and Sunday school worker, since the beginnings of the church. Although this question has been asked many times, there remain no easy answers. It is in an attempt to help parents grow and nurture the faith of their children that Donald and Brenda Ratcliff have written Child Faith, the book which is the subject of this review.
As I begin this review, let me first state that I am by no measure an expert on child development. My expertise lies in other areas. What I am, is daddy to a two and a half year old little boy named Eli. My wife and I adopted Eli from South Korea when he was 14 months old, and that is when we seriously started to ask the question which started this review. It was a few months later that Leon Blanchette, the moderator for this forum on Epworth Pulpit, asked me to read and write a review of this text (for those of you doing the math, you will notice that I have taken my time reading Child Faith, which has more to do with chasing a toddler, who never runs out of energy, then it does with the quality of the book)