Faith Stepping Stones
One 12-Month Membership. All Eight Stones. Cradle to Graduation.
Faith Stepping Stones is a cradle-to-graduation family ministry system designed to turn faith formation into a lifelong journey—one that happens not just at church, but every day at home. This proven model builds a strong, ongoing partnership between church and home, empowering parents to become confident, capable faith mentors for their children.
When you purchase a Faith Stepping Stones Membership/License, you’ll receive 12 full months of access from the date of your order.
Annual 12-Month Membership License: $199
The Mission of Faith Stepping Stones
To bless the child, gift the family, and call parents to the promise—every week at church and every night in every home.
The Faith Stepping Stones Method
At eight key milestones in a child’s and family’s faith journey, parents and children gather for meaningful connection and engaging learning. Each step culminates in a powerful blessing service that marks the moment and deepens the bond between church and home.
During each session, families are introduced to FAITH5—a simple, life-changing nightly faith practice that includes:
Sharing highs & lows
Reading Scripture
Talking about how it relates to life
Praying together
Blessing one another
With one annual membership, you receive access to all 8 Faith Stepping Stones—everything you need to offer a full, cradle-to-graduation family ministry system. Each Stone can stand alone as a powerful Christian parenting course, or be used together for a cohesive, long-term ministry strategy.
This all-inclusive access gives your church the flexibility to tailor the content to your families’ needs—at your pace, in your way.
The Eight Faith Stepping Stones included with your Membership:
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In the early months of a baby’s life, parents are filled with deep love—and often deep exhaustion. Faith Stepping Stone 1 offers a much-needed space for new parents to find support, encouragement, and community during this tender and transformative season.
Over the course of three engaging sessions, parents come together to share, laugh, and learn about:
Their baby’s physical, emotional, and spiritual development
Their own well-being as new parents
Building a strong foundation for faith at home
The experience concludes with a beautiful “Blessing of the Babies” during worship—a meaningful milestone that affirms God’s presence in this new beginning.
Stone 1 pairs wonderfully with infant baptism preparation, offering both spiritual depth and practical support for families at the very start of their faith journey.
What’s Included in Faith Stepping Stone 1
This Stone features three interactive sessions designed to support and encourage new parents as they grow in confidence and faith. Each session focuses on a key area of early development, offering practical insights and spiritual encouragement.
Session 1: Infant Physical Development
Objective: Help parents understand their baby’s physical needs and encourage healthy, confident parenting from the start.
Session 2: Infant Emotional Development
Objective: Equip parents to recognize and respond to their baby’s emotional needs with empathy, love, and assurance.
Session 3: Infant Spiritual Development
Objective: Guide parents in nurturing their baby’s spiritual life by committing to the FAITH5 practice—share, read, talk, pray, bless—every night in every home.
CLICK HERE for expanded information and more details on “Raising a Healthy Baby (Stone 1)”
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A child’s transition from infant to toddler to full-blown preschooler is a period of constant discovery for parent and child alike. Bringing parents together during this exciting time will bless them and their child with support and community.
At Faith Stepping Stone 2, parents spend three sessions sharing, laughing and growing as they learn about their preschoolers’ physical, emotional and spiritual health, as well as their own. Stone 2 concludes with a group blessing of the preschoolers in worship.
What Sessions are included with this Stone?
Session 1: Preschooler Physical Development
Objective: To help parents understand the physical needs of their toddlers and to encourage them in healthy and confident parenting.Session 2: Preschooler Emotional Development
Objective: To help parents understand the emotional needs of their toddlers and to encourage them in healthy and confident parenting.Session 3: Preschooler Spiritual Development
Objective: To help parents understand the spiritual needs of their toddlers and to encourage them in healthy and confident parenting through a commitment to the FAITH5 (share, read, talk, pray, bless) every night in every home.CLICK HERE for expanded information and more details on “Raising a Healthy Preschooler (Stone2)”
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The whole world changes for the family when little ones head off to school. Setting up a pattern for regular, open, caring, communication between parent and child becomes extremely important at this stage.
At Stepping Stone 3, along with a look at the physical, emotional and spiritual development of the child, parents and children are taught how to share their Highs & Lows of the day. Following Stone 3’s three sessions, parents and children return to the altar for a blessing in worship.
What Sessions are included with this Stone?
Session 1: Physical Development
Objective: To help parents understand the physical needs of their children as they enter school and to encourage them in healthy and confident parenting.Session 2: Emotional Development
Objective: To help parents understand the emotional needs of their children as they enter school and to encourage them in healthy and confident parenting.Session 3: Spiritual Development
Objective: To help parents understand the spiritual needs of their children and to encourage them in healthy and confident parenting through a commitment to the FAITH5 (share, read, talk, pray, bless) every night in every home.CLICK HERE for expanded information and more details on “Entering School (Stone 3)”
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Many churches have the tradition of presenting Bibles to children. This practice provides a wonderful opportunity to bring parents and children together for learning and fun.
Faith Stepping Stone 4 is an 8-session course that helps children get to know their Bible, while teaching them the stories of faith found in it. It culminates in worship where parents present the Bibles to their children and are blessed on this important, faith-forming day.
What Sessions are included with this Stone?
Session 1: The Book of Moses
Objective: To help guests understand and experience key stories from the first five books of the Bible, and to equip and encourage them to add Scripture to their nightly bedtime ritual through a commitment to the FAITH5 (share, read, talk, pray, bless) every night in every home.Session 2: Into the Promised Land
Objective: To help guests understand and experience the history of God’s people from the entry into the Promised land up to the time of the Psalms, and to equip and encourage them to add Scripture to their nightly bedtime ritual through a commitment to the FAITH5 (share, read, talk, pray, bless) every night in every home.Session 3: The Songs of Israel
Objective: To help guests understand and experience the Psalms as a rich hymn book of prayer and praise, and to equip and encourage them to add Scripture to their nightly bedtime ritual through a commitment to the FAITH5 (share, read, talk, pray, bless) every night in every home.Session 4: Wisdom & Major Prophets
Objective: To help guests understand and experience the richness of Wisdom Literature and the message of the Major Prophets, and to equip and encourage them to add Scripture to their nightly bedtime ritual through a commitment to the FAITH5 (share, read, talk, pray, bless) every night in every home.Session 5: The Minor Prophets
Objective: To help guests understand and experience the messages of justice and mercy from God through the Minor Prophets, and to equip and encourage them to add Scripture to their nightly bedtime ritual through a commitment to the FAITH5 (share, read, talk, pray, bless) every night in every home.Session 6: The Gospels
Objective: To help guests understand and experience the Gospels as the Good News of what God has done in Jesus Christ, and to equip and encourage them to add Scripture to their nightly bedtime ritual through a commitment to the FAITH5 (share, read, talk, pray, bless) every night in every home.Session 7: Paul’s Letters
Objective: To help guests understand and experience the amazing grace of God as shown through the letters of Paul, and to equip and encourage them to add Scripture to their nightly bedtime ritual through a commitment to the FAITH5 (share, read, talk, pray, bless) every night in every home.Session 8: Universal Letters & The Revelation
Objective: To help guests understand and experience the last section of the Bible as a call to faithful and courageous living in Christ, and to equip and encourage them to add Scripture to their nightly bedtime ritual through a commitment to the FAITH5 (share, read, talk, pray, bless) every night in every home.CLICK HERE for expanded information and more details on “My Bible (Stone 4):
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Faith Stepping Stone 5 is a communion instruction course for late elementary-age children and their parents. Three sessions engage everyone in learning the history of Holy Communion and the meaning and practice of Holy Communion today.
No matter what age first communion is celebrated at your church, Faith Stepping Stone 5 is a perfect opportunity for preadolescents and their parents to explore the meaning of Holy Communion together. Faith Stepping Stone 5 culminates at the altar with a family communion service and blessing of the children.
What Sessions are included with this Stone?
Session 1: From Passover to Last Supper
Objective: To help guests understand and experience the Lord’s Supper and its roots in the Passover; to encourage confession (“I’m sorry”) and absolution (“I forgive you”) in the home; and to aid families in healthy and confident parenting through a commitment to the FAITH5 (share, read, talk, pray, bless) every night in every home.Session 2: The Meaning of the Meal
Objective: To create a theme event that leads guests to understand and experience the meaning of Holy Communion; and to lead parents and children toward the commitment of saying “I’m sorry” (confession) and “I forgive you” (absolution) every night in every home.Session 3: Living Forgiven
Objective: To create a theme event that leads guests to understand the importance of living a forgiving, forgiven lifestyle; and to lead parents and children toward the commitment of saying “I’m sorry” (confession) and “I forgive you” (absolution) every night in every home.CLICK HERE for expanded information and more details on “Holy Communion (Stone 5)”
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Making a big deal about entry into your church’s confirmation program provides a great opportunity to gather parents and youth around the theme of “Surviving Adolescence”.
Stepping Stone 6 is a three-session course that helps youth and their parents develop a "survival plan" for adolescence that includes healthy listening and communication tools.
Stone 6 also provides your church with tools to recruit, train, and motivate parents to serve as leaders in your confirmation program.
What Sessions are included with this Stone?
Session 1: Haystack Theory.
Objective: To create a theme event that helps parents and teens to understand how societal pressures and support structures are different today than they were a generation ago, and leads parents to commit to serving as the “Impact Adults” in their children’s lives.Session 2: Working on the Dream
Objective: To create a theme event that helps parents and teens to articulate their dream relationship and take specific steps to make that dream a reality—including sharing Highs & Lows as a family each night throughout the adolescent journey.Session 3: The Secret Formula
Objective: To create a theme event that leads parents and teens to understand the importance of nightly communication and to commit to applying God’s Word to their highs and lows every night throughout the adolescent journey.CLICK HERE for expanded information and more details on “Entry into Confirmation (Surviving Adolescence) (Stone 6)”
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As youth prepare to affirm their baptismal promises on confirmation day, Faith Stepping Stone 7 gathers youth and parents around the themes of confession, confirmation, and call. These three sessions help confirmands and their parents experience deeply the power of saying yes to the God who said yes to them in their baptism.
What Sessions are included with this Stone?
Session 1: Confessing My Faith
Objective: To create a theme event that leads confirmands to review the basics of the Christian faith, articulate their beliefs in a Faith Statement Paper, and prepare to make their own statement of faith with strength on confirmation day.Session 2: Confirming My Convictions
Objective: To create a theme event that leads confirmands to review the six vows of Confirmation, to articulate their vows in a Faith Statement Paper, and prepare to make those vows their own.Session 3: Claiming My Calling
Objective: To create a theme event that leads small groups to choose a “Ministry of Sacred Service” to begin with their small group the week following confirmation, and to finish preparations for the writing of a Faith Statement paper.CLICK HERE for expanded information and more details on “Confirmation (Stone 7)”
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Spread over the school year, seniors and their parents gather to look back, look to the moment, and look to the future. These three sessions are a beautiful gift to young adults and their parents as they transition into a new chapter of life.
Faith Stepping Stone 8 culminates at the altar, with parents blessing their child and then receiving a blessing in return. This is indeed holy time, as graduates are celebrated, and parents are recognized for fulfilling the promises they made at their child’s baptism.
What Sessions are included with this Stone?
Session 1: Looking Back
Objective: To create a fall theme event that leads seniors and their parents to look back on the blessings that God has given their family, and motivates them to make the most of the time they have together by taking specific action steps to show their gratitude. Idea: Make this a brunch served each fall by the juniors and their parents.Session 2: Looking to the Moment
Objective: To create a winter theme event that leads seniors and their parents to look at the gifts God has given them in their families, and motivates them to take specific steps to restore any brokenness in their family relationships in the months before graduation. Idea: Make this a special Christmas dinner served each winter by the juniors and their parents.Session 3: Looking Ahead
Objective: To create a theme event that leads seniors and parents to look ahead to the new callings God is giving them and their families after graduation. Idea: Make this a special graduation brunch served each spring by juniors and their parents on the weekend before graduation. Invite seniors to stand during the meal and publicly thank parents for three specific gifts they have received: 1. Physical gifts; 2. Emotional gifts; 3. Spiritual giftsCLICK HERE for expanded information and more details on “High School Graduation (Stone 8)”
FAITH5 at the Core
Faith Stepping Stones features FAITH5—a simple, five-step faith practice that brings families closer to each other and to God.
With each new Faith Stepping Stone, parents are invited to add one step of the FAITH5 to their family’s nightly bedtime routine. It begins with a blessing for their baby, then gradually grows to include:
Blessing
Prayer
Reading Scripture
Faith Talk (talking about the Scripture)
Sharing Highs & Lows
As children grow, so does the family's nightly devotion rhythm. At each Stepping Stone, parents and children not only learn about the FAITH5—they practice it together.
By modeling these five simple steps at church, we empower families to live them out at home—every week at church and every night in every home.
What You Get with Your Faith Stepping Stones Membership
When you become a Faith Stepping Stones member, you receive instant digital access to all 8 Stones—our complete cradle-to-graduation family ministry system. Your membership is active for 12 full months from the date of purchase, giving your church everything it needs to launch or expand a powerful family ministry.
Your Annual Membership Includes:
Access to All 8 Faith Stepping Stones
Use each Stone individually or together as a full system—whatever best fits your setting and schedule.
Comprehensive Digital Resources
Each Stone includes a rich collection of materials designed to make implementation easy and engaging:
PowerPoint Presentations featuring:
Karaoke-style music videos
Interactive learning games
Theme Scripture verses
Cartoons and creative teaching ideas
Printable Leader’s Guide
Step-by-step instructions for leading the session
Tips for using the PowerPoint
Fun, scripted skits to engage families
Printable Handouts
For use during each session and to help reinforce the FAITH5 practice at home
Blessing Service Liturgy
Guide families through a meaningful worship milestone at the altar
Printable Sheet Music
Offers a live performance alternative to the karaoke videos
Vision-Casting Support
Resources to help you share the vision and purpose of Faith Stepping Stones with your congregation and leadership team.