CHERYL QUIGG
There was nothing glamorous about it. A tour bus, a bucket of soapy water, and a little boy trying to keep up with his dad. But for Jordan LeFevre of the LeFevre Quartet, that quiet Saturday chore turned into something he is still thinking about.
“My son was helping me wash our tour bus,” LeFevre recalls, “and if we’re being honest, I probably could have done it faster by myself. But that’s not really the point.”
For a man who spends much of his life on the road, performing for audiences across the country, LeFevre has a gift for recognising what actually matters. And what matters, he will tell you, is not the stage. It is the small, unremarkable hours in between, the ones most parents are tempted to rush through.
“As we scrubbed and rinsed, I was showing him how to do the job the right way,” he says. “Teaching him, guiding him, working alongside him.”
It brought to mind a verse he knows well, Proverbs 22:6, which calls parents to train up a child in the way he should go. LeFevre sees that scripture not as a task to complete, but as a posture to hold. “God doesn’t just give us instructions and walk away,” he says. “He teaches us, corrects us, and patiently works alongside us as we grow in faith and character.”
That patience is something every parent recognises and struggles with. The mess, the inefficiency, the slower pace that comes with letting a child participate rather than simply observe. It takes a certain kind of discipline to resist doing it yourself, to honour the process over the outcome.
And yet, those are exactly the moments children carry with them. A home, after all, can be a place of peace or a place of noise and confusion. The difference often comes down to whether parents are willing to be present, not perfectly, but consistently, and with intention.
LeFevre puts it plainly: “Sometimes the greatest lessons aren’t taught in the classroom. They’re learned side by side, in doing life together.”
For Christian parents, that is both a comfort and a challenge. Every errand, every chore, every ordinary Tuesday holds the potential to shape the next generation’s understanding of faith, character, and what it looks like to follow Christ. The colour of those moments, whether they feel significant or not, is rarely obvious in real time.
But a soapy bucket and a willing child are a good place to start.
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