Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead, and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:4‭-‬9 NRSV

https://bible.com/bible/2016/deu.6.4-9.NRSV

Being in isolation is a new experience for everyone,suddenly parents have had to become teachers and home educate, with resources from schools. The same applys to churches and faith .

Church is now mostly online, there is no Sunday School, Junior Church etc. So what do we do? I am aware many churches are sending resources for families to do alongside Sunday Church, some youth groups meeting virtually but, we have an incredible opportunity, to make faith a part of daily life in ways we may not have done before.

In Deuteronomy, Moses commands Israel to keep the words of the commandments on their hearts, to tell their Children them, talk at home and away. In other words talk about faith, teach the faith everyday.

The Church of England has a new initiative, faith at home, sharing resources for familiar to do at home, other denominations too have initiatives. Which is great, and childrens and youth leaders are still working, keeping in touch with their families and young people.

I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you. For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.

2 Timothy 1:3‭-‬7

NRSV https://bible.com/bible/2016/2ti.1.3-7.NRSV

But as we see Paul write to Timothy, Faith is learnt by our familes, we learn alongside our families, listening to the Bible Stories, asking questions, praying together, eating together, worshipping together, we're becoming an intergenerational community again. How can we develop this?

How can we hear from our families the good news stories? Of prayers answered, of messages from God? What can we do moving forward when we begin to do normal life? We don't want to lose this?

There will still be a place for separate groups, children & young people need to develop thier own faith but maybe we may also have more intergenerational groups, worship. We can, and do, learn much more when all ages talk to each other.