Jason Helopoulos

But what I want to center our family more than anything else is that we're worshipers of Christ.

I hope that when they leave the home,

They can say, you know what, our parents, they weren't perfect parents.

They actually weren't very good in a lot of ways.

But one thing that they did was bring us before the throne of Christ regularly and constantly in our home.

We couldn't leave our home without encountering Christ regularly.

It just centers the home, just has a way of doing that.

Probably seven or eight years or so ago, we were having a conference at our church and there were people coming in from all over the state to come to the conference.

And I was standing outside greeting people and there was a young woman that came to the conference that I hadn't seen for 10 years.

I had been her pastor at another church and she came running up to me and she said, pastor, pastor.

I said, yeah, oh, so good to see you.

And she said, oh, you changed my life.

Well, what was that?

And she said, it was a weekend that you and your wife went away.

Do you remember that?

I hadn't remembered it until she recalled it.

She said, you guys went away for a weekend.

We were first-time parents with our daughter.

And

We went away for a weekend, and it was the first time we were leaving our daughter with someone.