The following testimony was recently forwarded to me and is posted here with permission. This testimony serves as encouragement to keep pressing on with the biblical parenting principles taught in Growing Kids God’s Way.

Howie’s Testimony

“This past Saturday, we had pre-arranged for a company to come in a clean some of our carpeted rooms. We had given our two children, Joel(11yrs) and Ainsley(8yrs) some instructions about where to play while this was going on. When the man arrived and began cleaning carpet, our kids came in and out a couple of times asking questions and observing the man working. My youngest had asked if she could stand in a adjoining room and watch and I said, “Sure.” My oldest was also watching at a distance and conversing with me from time to time. Both of them were very well behaved. At one point, the man stopped cleaning, cut the machine off and asked, “Can I ask you a personal question?” I said, “Sure.” He then asked me, “How do you get your kids to behave so well and be so polite?” I simply said that we had raised our children on godly, biblical principles from birth. We left the conversation there and he resumed cleaning the carpet. At that moment I began to wonder if God was opening a door to share the Gospel. Well, he finished and I began writing the check, and sensing that God had opened a door, I began sharing my testimony and went right into a Gospel presentation, building on the impression that my kids had made on the man and the source of their witness. He accepted Christ! After he left, my wife and I sat our children down and explained that the witness of their good behavior opened the door for me to share the Gospel with that man! You should have seen their faces when they realized that God had used them to reach that man with the Gospel…it was priceless! Thanks for the Godly principles you teach!
Sincerely,
Howie, Stacie, Joel & Ainsley”