Abraham Lincoln said, “A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when you are gone, attend to those things which you think are important…The fate of humanity is in his hands.” ?

If you are like most grandparents, you would like your grandchildren to carry on your faith in Jesus Christ. The moral and spiritual climate in our world is eroding so it is becoming more difficult for our grandchildren to grow up in a Christ-like environment.

I would like to invite you to start a Grandparents@Prayer group in your church or in your community to pray together with other grandparents. Let’s raise up an army of grandparents to be prayer warriors to rescue our grandchildren from the spiritually deprived world they live in.  If you would like information about starting a Grandparents@Prayer group, email me at lpenner@christiangrandparenting.net.

Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the grandchildren you have given me to love and nurture. I want to love them as You love them. Give me patient empathy for my children as they are raising my grandchildren. Show me how I can come alongside them with the maturity and experience you have given me. Give me the energy, ideas, and wisdom to be engaged and proactive in their lives. I want to be faithful and intentional to pass on your love and your truths to them as long as I live.

©2009 Lillian Penner
?  Helen Kooiman Hosier, Living the Lois Legacy, (A Focus on the Family book, Wheaton, IL, Tyndalle House, 2002,). P 66.