I am delighted that so many of you are already taking advantage of the wide array of resources in our Mandarin Home Garden! It’s wonderful to already be replenishing idea cards and pointer books.
Pointer books provide encouragement to be intentional about our faith in our current stages of life. They also address faith in the context of special circumstances. Some of the pointer books currently available address: Single Adulthood; Building a Strong Marriage; Intentional Parenting; Discipline with Young Children; Preparing Your Child for Adolescence; Launching Young Adults, and Influencing Grandchildren. There are also pointer books available for single parenting, grieving, addiction issues and sexual identity/gender confusion.
Idea cards create opportunities to discuss faith with your children and teens. There are also faith focused date night ideas for your marriage. Some of the idea cards topics include: Bedtime Parent Picture; Memory Minute; Blinded by Sin; Truth Treasure Map; Impression Points; and more. In addition, there are dinner and movie meal-time ideas for parents with their children and their teens.
You can access these resources on site at the Home Garden Center, located in the church foyer, underneath the painting. You also can go to mandarincc.com. and click on “Home Garden Center.” There you’ll find not only pointer books and idea cards, but also the Home Appraisal we did together a couple of weeks ago. We are keeping the Home Appraisal available so you can check your progress periodically.
Special thanks to Dakota Thornton and his team for researching these resources and providing a format to make them available to us. The Mandarin Home Garden is a great tool to help us work together to guide people into a growing relationship with Jesus.
-Mike Johnson