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It is of the utmost importance to me that the children and middle schoolers that surround me know without a shadow of a doubt that JESUS is real and loves them more than anyone else ever could.  I want them to know that HE loves them so much HE gave HIS life for them.  I'm always looking for new ways to share that truth because I want them to OWN it for themselves.  Forensic Faith for Kids:  Learn to Share the Truth from a Real Detective from David C Cook and Case Makers Academy offers a hands-on approach for full ownership -- and teaches kids of all ages how to understand this sacrificial love and share the TRUTH about JESUS with others.


My daughter and I share a love of all things detective so I was excited to have a look at this new "detective" series of faith-based books.  Forensic Faith for Kids is a softcover book (160-pages) written by a real-life cold-case detective and his wife, J. Warner and Susie Wallace.  Mr. Wallace is a former atheist who learned to make the case for JESUS and now teaches kids how to follow the evidence presented to make the case for JESUS for themselves.  He shares that being a Christian means accepting your duty as described in 1 Peter 3:15 -- "Instead, you must worship CHRIST as LORD of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it."  Kids are taught how to use evidence and communicate that evidence (explain the hope they have a believer) to other people by joining the kids in the Forensic Investigations Academy.  The reader is welcomed into the Academy as a new cadet and they learn how to fill their detective bag with the tools needed to solve mysteries.

Written in such a way that the reader becomes a part of the story, Forensic Faith for Kids welcomes us as detectives in two ongoing mysteries.  First, we investigate to find the owner of a lost/found puppy and second, we investigate to help prove to a friend that JESUS is indeed GOD.  This is a super hands-on process because the pages of the book are filled with "assignments" that draw you into GOD's Word and through a course of discipleship.  In the picture below, you see that the reader is directed to READ Scripture, fill-in-the-blanks about what it says, and think about the important people in his/her life.  Kids see that it is okay to be trained and discipled -- and they are given permission to write in the book as they read.  Furthermore, they are given permission to write in their Bibles as they read and study it in order that they might make it a personal, color-coded road map for life.  How wonderful is that??

I think that every student should be able to OWN the TRUTH about JESUS for themselves and be able to share what they know with others.  Case Makers Academy offers a series of books that will help them along the way in Cold-Case Christianity for Kids:  Investigate JESUS with a Real Detective, GOD's Crime Scene for Kids:  Investigate Creation with a Real Detective, and Forensic Faith for Kids:  Learn to Share the Truth from a Real Detective.   I especially like the Case Makers Academy interactive website  that adds an entirely new dimension to the reading of the book.  The website offers short videos (most run about 5 minutes) that complement each chapter of the book and PDFs that you can print to make a detective's notebook.  

There's even a Leader's Guide to help you utilize information to its fullest -- and it's a completely FREE resource.  Your students will enjoy becoming real-life detectives as they answer questions, compile their very own Special Investigators Notebook, and learn more about JESUS through the Training Activity Sheets.  You'll need the book to understand it all, but your kids will LOVE going between the reading, the website, and their Bibles.  They will thoroughly enjoy the dot-to-dot and word find activities and the Note Sheets for each chapter are valuable tools for retaining the "training" from the book.  Kids (and adults) will learn how to better search out GOD's Word for answers.

This is most definitely a winner of a series.  There really is so much that we can all learn as we read along.

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And here's my SPOILER ALERT:  The cadets do a great job and they solve BOTH mysteries successfully.  In the process, we all learn more about how police work happens by following the evidence hidden in plain sight and not ever giving up when the going gets tough -- and best of all?  We learn to have a FORENSIC FAITH as we guard the TRUTH and follow the SHEPHERD.  There's even a certificate to fill out and present to your children once they discover all of this for themselves.

I was given the opportunity to review Forensic Faith for Kids:  Learn to Share the Truth from a Real Detective from David C Cook as a member of the Homeschool Review Crew.   You can check out the Crew Review and see what other members of the Homeschool Review Crew thought of this book by clicking on the graphic below.

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