The fourth episode of The Diaspora Marriage, a Voice of Covenant series on building a Christ-centered home when you are walking between two cultures.

In this episode, Micheline Nelson teaches on parenting children who are growing up between two languages and three cultures: the child who speaks English better than Creole or French, who knows the American Christmas carols better than the hymns your grandmother sang. Drawing on Scripture and years of walking alongside diaspora families, she walks through what every Haitian and Francophone Christian parent needs to hear:

1. You are not failing, you are translating a spiritual inheritance across generations, just as Timothy's faith was handed down through his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice (2 Timothy 1:5)

2. How faith is actually passed down: keeping the heritage-language door open, and family devotion that starts small and sticks (Deuteronomy 6; Psalm 78)

3. Discipline where three cultures collide: keeping the honor your culture taught you, and laying down the harshness that was never Scripture (Ephesians 6:1-4)

Plus, what our culture gets right and wrong about raising children in the faith, a Haitian proverb for the long work of parenting ("piti piti zwazo fè nich li," little by little the bird builds its nest), and one challenge to carry into your week.

For married couples raising children in the diaspora, especially Haitian and Francophone Christian families, and for any parent trying to pass on faith in a culture that is not their own.

Learn more at ecorelationships.com.

The third episode of The Diaspora Marriage, a Voice of Covenant series on building a Christ-centered home when you are walking between two cultures.

In this episode, Micheline Nelson teaches on the marriage that holds two different faith stories: the home where one of you was raised Catholic and the other Pentecostal, where one ofyou came to Christ years into the marriage, or where one of you is still not there yet. These are not rare stories in the diaspora. Drawing on Scripture and her years of covenant ministry, she walks through four things every mixed-faith home needs to hear:

1. Your home is not a lesser home; it is set apart by the faith already in it (1 Corinthians 7:14)

2. The "unequally yoked" verse, and why it was never meant as a weapon against a marriage that already exists (2 Corinthians 6:14)

3. One home, two grandmothers: honoring both traditions without confusing your children (Joshua 24:15)

4. A word for the spouse who is further along: won without a word, not by argument (1 Peter 3:1-2)

Plus, what our culture gets right and wrong about faith in the family, and why quiet, faithful witness changes more hearts than a thousand arguments.

For married couples in mixed-faith homes, especially Haitian and Francophone Christian couples in the diaspora, and for anyone praying for a husband or wife to come to faith.

Learn more at ecorelationships.com.

The first episode of The Diaspora Marriage, a new Voice of Covenant series on building a Christ-centered home when you are walking between two cultures.In this opener, Micheline Nelson teaches on the engagement year, the short and sacred window most couples spend on the wedding instead of the marriage. Drawing on her own diaspora story and decades of covenant marriage, she walks through three conversations every engaged couple needs to have before they say "I do":1. The parents and the two cultures (Genesis 2:24)2. The money and the family obligations back home (Luke 14:28)3. The faith and the children to come (Amos 3:3, Joshua 24:15)Plus, what our culture gets right and wrong about marriage preparation, and why the engagement year is for building the covenant, not just planning the party.For engaged and soon-to-be-engaged couples, especially Haitian and Francophone Christian couples in the diaspora.Learn more at ecorelationships.com.