Hallow’s Lent Challenge for Kids: Miracle Hunters

Kate Taliaferro reviews this year’s Kids Lent Challenge from the Hallow app, and explains how families can use this app to pray and learn together.

My kids are so excited for Lent to start. Maybe that’s a surprising statement. Often, the days before Lent are filled with Mardi Gras celebrations, eating a few too many cookies in anticipation of fasting from sweets, and begrudgingly entering the more somber season of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. Our kids (6 of them, ages 14 down to 4), are all looking forward to Lent because of one new tradition we have added to our Lenten routines: the Hallow Lenten Challenge for Kids.

Learning Together About the Power of Miracles

This year, Hallow has continued their partnership with the creators of the Saints Alive podcast to bring us a daily listening challenge designed for kids. This year, the theme is “Miracle Hunters.” Following the same group of kids from previous challenges, Paul, Mia, Brad, and Grace, families will be learning together about the power of miracles both big and small.

There’s a new kid on Brad and Paul’s basketball team who is both new to the area and new to the Church. He isn’t too sure miracles are real, and together, Brad, Paul, Mia, and Grace decide to become miracle hunters intent on showing their new friend the reality of miracles in the Church. Ashley Lenz of Hallow explains, “As the stakes rise on and off the court, the Miracle Hunters discover that miracles aren’t always flashy or easy. They wrestle with tough questions about unanswered prayers, disappointment, and what faith looks like when the miracle you’re hoping for doesn’t come.”

Grappling With the Realities of Faith

I love that the Hallow Kids Challenges don’t shy away from hard topics. They grapple with the realities of faith, such as described above. These are questions we all face, no matter how old we are, and I am looking forward to the conversations we will be able to have as a family as we encounter them alongside our Hallow friends.

I also love that the format for each day is slightly different. Some days, it’s full story with the kids. Others, we usually hear one or two of the kids participating in a specific prayer experience that we are invited into. With the focus on miracles this year, I am really excited to hear the dramatizations we have come to love from Saints Alive. I think my kids are most excited for “Holy Moly,” the game show-style day where we get to review and expand our knowledge based on what we learned that week.

I am looking forward to the Kids Lenten Challenge as much as my kids. We are a homeschooling family and have found that lunchtime is our best time to listen to these challenges together. We light a candle, settle in with our food, and listen every day. The challenges in the past have been anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes long (and the 20-minute ones are outliers: 8 to 10 minutes would be the average).

How to Access the Hallow Lent Challenge for Kids

This challenge is part of the paid subscription content from Hallow. The usual yearly subscription is $69.99. With that subscription, you will unlock so much more that only the kids challenge to include the challenge for adults (which I also highly recommend). There are so many prayer experiences, music, devotions, stories of the saints, Scripture, and shorter challenges to discover with the full subscription. I cannot recommend it enough. But don’t just take my word for it. Hallow has generously offered a 90-day free trial for any new subscribers if you sign up on their website, so you will not only be able to access the Lenten challenges but a good portion of their Easter content as well before needing to decide if this app is a good fit for your prayer life.

If you are looking for a way to bring your family together each day, to have thoughtful and meaningful conversations, and participate deeply in Lent, this challenge is for you. Last year, over 100,000 families participated and I cannot wait to see how many more of us come together for adventures with the Miracle Hunters.

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