Just that's one of the good blessings I think of our culture is we really love babies and little toddlers.

Hey guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast. I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke, along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor. Join us Monday through Friday as we chat about quick tips, skills, and ways to help equip you on your journey as a father to build your multi-generational family team on mission. Stay tuned.

What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So how do you take your really littles on mission?

Like, are babies useful?

So often the way we talk about ministry and mission, it's like maybe when our kids get much, much older.

But there's all kinds of ways that young children and even babies can be super helpful

in certain kinds of missions. And that's why we

want to encourage you guys to really figure out, are you guys in a season as a family where you

should be investing in those kinds of ministries, those kinds of missions? And to me, probably the

most obvious and helpful way that babies help with mission is what we like to call the baby icebreaker,

which is it's really hard to start a conversation with a stranger. And it's really valuable, whether it's

your neighbors, whether it's a, you know, a coffee shop you go to a lot or a restaurant or just

people that you run into in public. It's really important that we get into conversations with

strangers and that we have those kinds

of meaningful moments where we can talk about important things, figure out who they are, invite

them into relationship potentially, and invite them into relationship with Jesus. But it's

really hard to get that conversation started, but it's not when you have a baby. Babies are like

the perfect segue into a conversation with a stranger. I mean, nobody looks

intimidating when they're when they have a baby with them. Right. And so, and so that's,

it's a really, really valuable resource and way to go on mission with your kids. There might be

some nuances to how to do this. So I want to, Jeff, maybe you could tease this out a little bit more.

Yeah. I mean, we actually totally think strategically through this. Now,

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