Welcome to Beyond the Pew. My name is Matt Rice, President and Founder of Collaborative Catholic Formation Ministries, a youth ministry collaborative focused on igniting hearts, inspiring discipleship, and empowering families.

Welcome to Beyond the Pew, my name is Matt Rice, President and Founder of Collaborative Catholic Formation Ministries, a youth ministry collaborative focused on igniting hearts, inspiring discipleship, and empowering families. Beyond the Pew is a ministry of CCFM focused on helping families strengthen or start conversations of faith at home. In the last episode, we focused on Jesus Christ, how everything in our lives points back to accepting Him into our life.

Alright mom and dad, in our first two episodes we focused on our relationship with Christ and maintaining that relationship through prayer, now I want you to actually start having conversations with your kids about faith.

Moms and dads represent God in different ways. This is one of the many reasons why marriage is between one man and one woman. Because we each represent God in different ways and we show our kids about God in those different ways.

Somehow the most basic, yet fundamental aspect of our Catholic faith is the hardest for youth, and let's be honest, many adults, to get excited about.