S4 E12: Innovative Family Discipleship

In this week’s episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, host Suzanne Phillips welcomes Santosh Swamidass, founder of Launching Ground and Launch Network, for a powerful and practical conversation on discipling your children in everyday family life.

With a background in aerospace engineering, church planting, and family leadership, Santosh brings a unique blend of innovation and faith to the conversation around family discipleship. Whether you’re a parent feeling under-equipped or a church leader looking for scalable tools, this episode provides vision, strategy, and encouragement for weaving faith and character into your family rhythms.

You’ll walk away with practical insight, powerful stories, and a renewed sense of calling to raise disciples—right at home.

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Episode Highlights:

✔️ The mission behind Launching Ground—equipping families to disciple at home

✔️ Statistics that reveal a growing discipleship gap in families

✔️ Understanding the mantle of responsibility on the family unit

✔️ The powerful legacy of Jonathan Edwards and what we can learn from it

✔️ Why so many parents don’t understand discipleship—and how to change that

✔️ What to say to the parent who feels unequipped or unsure

✔️ Defining discipleship in practical, life-giving terms

✔️ A look into the stages of discipleship and how they apply to parenting

✔️ How Launching Ground’s tools and subscription boxes work

✔️ Feedback from families and churches using the tools—and the fruit it’s producing

✔️ How churches, schools, and families can get started and plug in

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📖 Featured Resource: Launching Ground Family Discipleship Tools

Explore hands-on resources designed to equip parents to disciple their children with confidence.

👉 Subscribe to the Family Discipleship Box: Faith + Fun + Formation, delivered to your home → www.LaunchingGround.com

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📣 Follow and Connect

📲 Follow Santosh & Launching Ground for more tools and stories:

• Suzanne Phillips & Beacon Parent: @suzannephillips_ | @beacon_parent

• Santosh & Launching Ground: @launchingground | @santoshswamidass

🎥 YouTube Channel: Launching Ground

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🏆 Identity & Discipleship Truths:

✅ To disciple your children is to lead them in becoming more like Christ—to identify as His.

✅ You don’t have to be perfect, just faithful. Discipleship starts with showing up.

✅ The family is God’s first design for discipleship—and that mantle is still yours to carry.

✅ When you disciple your children, you build a legacy of faith and purpose.

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🔔 Ready to take family discipleship from theory to practice? You’re not alone—resources exist, and help is available.

Subscribe, share this episode, and join the movement of parents discipling the next generation—right where they are.