Church Life

I have observed, as have many of you, that many in our community are at the marriage and/or procreative stages. That is, there is the potential for many marriages and babies in our community in the near future. It is of interest and significant concern to me, that our young couples be appropriately equipped to raise their children in such as way, as to, not only, not lose them from the church when they grow older, but that they would become, by choice, active and engaged Orthodox Christians. It is necessary then, of course, to be proactive in teaching and mentoring our young couples in the faith, to the point that they will be able to raise their children to become zealous Christians. We don’t want to lose our kids to other faiths, or worse, to secularism, materialism, minimalism, or God forbid, for them to abandon Christ altogether. Here the God parents, and in fact the whole community can play a significant role, helping the parents in the raising of Godly children. Any ideas?