A Surefire Way to Effectively Communicate with Parents

In order to really make an impact on the faith lives of our students, we have to be intentional about building bridges between us as religious educator and our students’ parents. We cannot sit back and wait for the parents to encounter Christ on their own. We have to develop relationships with them that are meaningful and empowering.

That has been a goal of mine for years, but it wasn’t until recently that I did anything about it. Communicating with parents was always just an item sitting on...