Sticky Faith The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family Over 100 Practical and Tested Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Kids

The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family addresses one of the top current concerns about youth and the church: the reality that nearly half of all young people raised in Christian families walk away from their faith when they graduate from high school. That's the bad news. But here's the good news: research also shows that parents are one of the primary influences on their child's faith.

This book arises from the innovative, research-based, and extensively field-tested project known as "Sticky Faith," designed to equip parents with insights and ideas for nurturing long-term faith in children and young people. Because of the Fuller Youth Institute's six years of research with more than 500 young people, 100 churches, and 50 families, four of this guidebook's unique qualities make it a "must have" for families eager to point their young people toward long-term faith

First, it's grounded in sophisticated, academically verified data. While Dr. Powell is a parent of three children who authentically weaves her own experiences throughout the book, the chapter topics correlate with parenting principles proven in national research.

Second, it is positive. Amid gloomy and theoretical resources, this book leaves parents empowered and hopeful that even little tweaks to their family rhythms can make a big difference.

Third, it is practical. Readers get what they want most: more than 100 ideas from other parents they can try today, this week, or this month.

Fourth, its "guidebook" format is accessible. For busy parents who don't have time and inclination to read, this format is a welcome resource that they can return to time and time again for fresh ideas and inspiration.

Dr. Kara Powell's The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family is a positive and practical "ideas manual" from the Fuller Youth Institute's Sticky Faith research: a wealth of tested ideas for parents who want to build lasting faith in their children and teenagers.

• 1. Why Does Your Family Need a Sticky Faith Guide?
• 2. You Get What You Are: Modeling Sticky Faith
• 3. Handling Mistakes: Showing Sticky Forgiveness
• 4. Warm Family Relationships: Building Blocks of Sticky Faith
• 5. Connecting: Finding Ways to Relate to Your Teenager
• 6. Community: The Power of Five Faith-Building Adults
• 7. Grandparents and Senior Adults: The Magic of Intergenerational Interaction
• 8. Communication: Talking Faith with Your Kids
• 9. Vacation! Downtime Ways to Build Sticky Faith
• 10. Home Sticky Home: Making Your House a Hub of Faith
• 11. Service That Sticks: Putting Family Faith to Work
• 12. Sticky Transitions: Helping Kids Leave Home with a Faith of Their Own
• 13. Taking the Next Sticky Faith Steps with Your Family
• Appendix 1. The College Transition Project Research Overview
• Appendix 2. The Sticky Faith Families Project Research Overview