164 archives found for "Grandparent’s Day of Prayer"

Guest blog by Sherry Schumann If you wander through a Hallmark store during the final weeks of August, you’ll notice cards celebrating National Grandparents Day. You won’t find any cards for Grandparents Day of Prayer, even though its date coincides with National Grandparents Day. Grandparents [...]

A prayer for your grandchildren returning to school. Dear Heavenly Father, I pray ______will have an easy,  smooth and peaceful transition as he/she goes back to school. Connect well with his/her teachers, feeling accepted and comfortable in the classroom. Sharpen ______ mind and help [...]

Here are some helpful suggestions to pray for your grandchildren on Grandparents’ Day of Prayer.  This is the confidence we have in approaching God:that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. (1 John 5:14) Pray for their relationship with God: •   That [...]

Since you received my blog last week, I am praying you have been thinking about how God could have you to influence other grandparents to pray intentionally for their grandchildren in their sphere of influence? I hope you have checked out our website with guidelines, endorsements, and [...]

Why a Grandparents’ Day of Prayer? Where has time flown by? Many of our grandchildren will be heading off to school next month. Summer will be gone before we know it. We need to uphold them in prayeras the church is becoming less significant today in our everyday lives, a moral influence becomes [...]

National Grandparents’ Day was designated by a Senate proclamation signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 to be observed the second Sunday in September. The mission of the Christian Grandparenting Network is to promote effective grandparenting, which is helping our grandchildren to know and [...]

Today our nation is being attacked like never before educationally, socially, financially, and spiritually. Christianity itself is under assault, and parents and grandparents are involved in a tug of war for the hearts and minds of their children. Our grandchildren are finding it hard to navigate [...]

Written by Sherry Schumann Grandparents Day of Prayer and National Grandparents Day are similar but not the same. To understand their similarities and differences, we need to examine both, starting with National Grandparents Day. National Grandparents Day Five years later, the United States [...]

Have you heard about the first grandparent conference to take place in the Northeast?  It will take place in a beautiful setting, on the borders of New Hampshire and Vermont, PLUS October will be an excellent time of the year in the foliage season. October 18-20, 2018 The Moody Center, North 206 [...]

  Recently I was thinking about my grandchildren going back to school, and the story of baby Moses kept coming to my mind from Exodus chapter 2. At the time Moses was born, Pharaoh was killing all the newborn Hebrew boys in Egypt.  When Moses was three months old, his mother hid him by making [...]