Frequently Asked Questions

WHAT'S INCLUDED WITH THE JUMPSTART FAMILY FAITH HABITS STARTER GUIDE?

The Jumpstart Family Faith Starter Guide comes with step-by-step action steps for implementing a family devotion at mealtime, which you can start as soon as your next meal.

We teach you how to build small habits and how to combine it all, when ready, into a family mealtime devotion service with scripture readings beyond "feel good" Bible stories.

You'll get:

• Step-by-step instructions for easily engaging your kids and being less frustrated
• Fun activities, including 2 prayer songs everyone will love and tips for getting your kids excited and keeping their attention with a candle
• 6 practical strategies for leading and teaching the Lord's Prayer that are great for any age
• No-fail tips on easily reading scripture together, including where to start and where to go next
• A plan and easy script to follow or adapt to start your own simple mealtime devotion tonight
• A guide to easily adapt the devotion for Episcopal, Anglican, Presbyterian, other Protestants, or Catholics, using your book of worship, and even for non-denominational or Bible churches
• A bonus of 10 Bible verses that show you God's amazing love and comfort in the hardest times

This is a digital product and will be delivered to you by email to download. The starter guide will be delivered DIGITALLY, and you will not receive a physical product.

WHAT WILL THIS HELP ME WITH?

In Jumpstart Family Faith Habits Starter Guide you'll learn:

• How to build the faith habits that matter most
• How to get consistent in sharing with your kids
• How to get your kids to focus while you pray
• How to teach the Lord's Prayer in different ways
• How to read scripture aloud with everyone
• How to put it all together into a family meal devotion service
• How to adapt it for your church's style

WHAT IF I DON'T HAVE TIME TO START A NEW PROGRAM?

We've done our best to make starting today as simple and painless as possible.

First, we provide clear, easy-to-follow instructions for each step as well as how to put it all together when you're ready so you don't have to wonder if what you're doing is working or enough.

Second, we have given freeing encouragement so you can let go of perfectionism and frustration and instead share your faith daily in as little as 5 minutes.

Third, we have put together a guide for any church style, along with a dinner plan and dinner devotion, to save time getting started and to help you know how to keep going when you hit any roadblocks.

WHAT IF I ALREADY KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MY KIDS, I JUST NEED TO ACTUALLY DO IT?

There are a lot of people who already have other guides/curriculums/Bible studies that they want to do with their kids, but haven't gotten around to doing or finishing. If you are looking for how to help your kids build a lasting faith with your own materials, our other product, Keeping Your Kids On God's Side Toolkit, has a library of practical tools for moms to help your kids build a lasting faith through starting and building on simple habits for consistency.

That said, there are many others who don't know what to do at all, and our simple starter guide will walk you through easy steps you can do with your kids today.

HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCTS?

The Jumpstart Family Faith Habits Starter Guide is designed to be a comprehensive program for daily Bible reading and prayer together with your kids that you can do over years and can adapt to your changing needs for sharing your faith with your kids. The goal for you and your family is to share about Jesus regularly with your kids so that they learn who he is and of the fullness and richness of his love for them so they will have something to fall back on as they grow up and run into all of life's problems.

The Jumpstart Family Faith Habits starter guide walks you step-by-step through how to know you're doing everything you can with your kids by teaching you how to start a simple family devotion using time you already spend together. It contains detailed instructions on how to lead your kids (and get them to listen and participate) in a guided family prayer and Bible devotion.

The Jumpstart Family Faith Habits starter guide is designed to help you when you don't know where to start or you've bought and tried things before but just couldn't stick with them because they only had the content to share and they didn't work for your unique situation. This starter guide can be used it on its own, with our Keeping Your Kids on God's Side toolkit, or you can swap our devotion content with any other devotion or Bible study you may already have. It is different from other products in that it gives you step-by-step instructions on working with your kids to get them to listen and to reduce your frustration because you understand why and how to sharing your faith with your kids successful.

WHAT IF I'M AFRAID IT WON'T WORK?

Fear for our kids' spiritual lives is common among all parents of faith. If you aren't doing anything with your kids right now, our starter guide will show you exactly where to begin.

If you have been doing things but lack focus or consistency, our starter guide will walk you through building consistent habits that will open the door to important but harder conversations with your kids about Jesus and non-Christian influences everywhere.

IS THIS A REAL BOOK?

This is not a book, it is a comprehensive system for building consistency in sharing your faith with your kids. Please keep in mind that all materials are delivered digitally in PDF format. 

CAN I GET A PHYSICAL COPY?

At this time our Jumpstart Family Faith Habits Starter Guide is only available in digital PDF format. You can print the entire bundle and have it bound or keep it in a 3-ring binder, or you can print just the pages you need.

HOW SOON AFTER PURCHASING WILL I RECEIVE MY PRODUCT?

The Jumpstart Family Faith Habits Starter Guide will be delivered digitally, via the email address you provide at checkout. It should arrive within 5-10 minutes of your purchase. If you do not see it, check your spam, junk, promotions folder, or send me an email to keeley at lifeandfaithcollide dot com.

HOW DO I KNOW WHETHER JUMPSTART FAMILY FAITH HABITS STARTER GUIDE IS RIGHT FOR ME?

This starter guide is for moms with 3 to 12 year olds, even teenagers, living at home who want their kids to grow up and know Jesus and not turn their back on their faith, but who need to find a consistent way to teach their kids more about who Jesus is in a quick, 5-10 minute way. It is for moms who want to raise their kids to know Christ but aren't sure they are doing enough or setting a good enough example.

This product is also for anyone who wants to go deeper in their relationship with God and to find a simple system for having a daily Bible reading and quick prayer time. It's great for dads, grandparents, and pastors and pastors' wives too! If you are a single parent or work in the evenings, there is a special section just for you and how to adapt it to your busy life.

WHAT AGE KIDS IS THIS BEST FOR?

Our starter guide is specifically tailored to moms with young kids at home, ranging anywhere from about 3 to 12 year olds and even teenagers. Because it is more about creating a daily time for practicing your faith together and less about specific, age-appropriate content, you will find that it helps you share your faith with your kids no matter what age they are.

That said, our starter guide can also help moms, dads, or grandparents whether their kids are babies, living at home or not, as you can use the content to make your own consistent mealtime devotion to strengthen your own faith life.

HOW QUICKLY CAN I EXPECT RESULTS?

This guide is based on hundreds of years of Christian home practice for families and individuals for keeping you consistently connected to God's Word.

The Jumpstart Family Faith Habits Starter Guide is not intended to solve all your problems in one day. Instead, it is intended to give you the tools and instructions you need to have a starting place for consistently praying, reading, and sharing about Jesus in a quick format you can adapt to your busy family.

As with any program, results will vary and be impacted by a number of factors. With that said, our participants have been less frustrated from the beginning and have seen results in their own motivation and their kids' participation within two weeks of starting the program.

WILL THIS WALK ME THROUGH A BIBLE STUDY OR DEVOTION WITH MY KIDS?

While this starter guide is not a Bible study, it does give you everything you need to have a family or private devotion, including scripture reading, the Lord's Prayer, and prayer for yourself or others so you can have a lasting impact on your family. You can use these step-by-step instructions to just prayer or read scripture or to put it all together really easily. You can pair it with any scripture reading plan or family Bible study you may already have, or you can use it on its own to start your own devotion together with your kids.

WHAT IF I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO?

Our simple, step-by-step instructions will literally walk you through everything you need to know to have meaningful devotion time together.

WHAT IF I GET STUCK—CAN I GET HELP?

It's perfectly natural to run into roadblocks or get overwhelmed when you're not sure what to do next or you feel like what you're doing right now isn't working. If you feel stuck, I am always available by email to answer any questions you may have.

WHY WILL THIS WORK WHEN SO MANY OTHER CURRICULUMS/GUIDES FAIL?

There are a lot of reasons why other curriculums and guides don't work, but one of the main reasons is because we don't stick with them.

We may get excited and start really strong and try to do too many new things at once. Once we get busy or run into pushback from our kids, we lose steam, get distracted, and forget to keep going.

This is especially true if we don't know what to do or are not sure what we're doing is making an impact. We don't want to be strict with our kids while sharing about God because we think it will push them away from God, the opposite of what we want for them!

The family devotion in the Jumpstart Family Faith Habits starter guide gives you exactly what you've lacked in other guides, which is the how-to work with kids, how to teach them, how to read with them, basically how to make it actually work. We start with individual pieces or faith habits that you can do in as little as 2 minutes a day, learn them, then add a new one so that you're not overwhelmed or frustrated and so you're not trying to do all the things at once. There is plenty of grace to skip days and no pressure or judgment if you need to take a break or start back up.

Because we teach you how to have a meaningful family devotion in a simple, step-by-step way, you can use this guide at any time with your kids to get back on track. The guide is invaluable for making things feel like they are working and for letting go of your expectations, so your kids can be free to be kids while also learning about God's amazing love for them so they will have a strong foundation for when life's problems start to push back on their childhood faith.

WHAT IF I DON'T THINK A MEALTIME DEVOTION SERVICE WILL WORK FOR MY FAMILY?

The real goal for the starter guide is to give you step-by-step instructions on how to get started right now sharing your faith with your kids on an easy, consistent basis. Our starter guide has enough individual pieces for you to put it all together at any time and in any way that's best for your family. The focus on a mealtime is so that you don't have to make "extra" time or do one more thing. The mealtime devotion service shows you how to make sharing your faith a consistent habit, whenever you choose to do it.

HOW DOES DOING THE SAME THING EACH NIGHT WORK?

By doing the same thing each night in our family mealtime devotions, you provide structure and repetition for your kids. Learning for young kids happens with a lot of repetition. Once kids know what you are doing, they can become active participants, which makes their faith their own.

WHAT'S THE INVESTMENT?

Grab the Jumpstart Family Faith Habits Starter Guide for $49 today only. It is regularly priced at $147, and is only available for $49 if you purchase today directly from this page.

With the steps in this starter guide, you can start tonight at dinner and have made real progress in as little as 2 minutes. You'll immediately see the difference in how your kids listen and engage and learn instead of feeling stuck and frustrated that no one will pay attention.

Built into the starter guide is a way of forming a habit so that you can stick with this system no matter how chaotic your home may feel.

WHAT IS YOUR RETURN POLICY?

This is a digital product and download happens within minutes of your purchase. As soon as you receive it, you'll be well on your way to a quick and easy, meaningful devotion with your kids to teach them to know Jesus. We offer a 14-day, no questions asked, money-back guarantee.