A new initiative was launched in January in Cardiff aimed at encouraging Christian parents to nurture their children’s faith at home.
The Kitchen Table Project has been designed to help parents of children under 11 to inspire a faith that lasts, primarily by bringing God into everyday things that they already do. It was launched in response to research carried out earlier in the year that revealed how, despite 95% of parents acknowledging that it was largely their responsibility to teach their children about the Christian faith, 92% felt they could be doing more.
Research demonstrates that parents, not church leaders, are the biggest influencers when it comes to encouraging a living faith in their children – but many feel ill-equipped or simply don’t know where to start. Barriers to nurturing faith include family time being devoted to other activities and lack of confidence.
According to Christian Research, the church in the UK will have lost an estimated 1.1 million children between 1990 and 2020. They also predict that in the year 2020, 183,700 children aged under 15 will attend church compared to 375,300 in 2010, unless action is taken. Just 50% of children growing up in Christian homes keep their faith as adults.
