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A bedtime story starring your child, rooted in faith.

Every evening a brand-new story arrives with your child right in the middle of it, built around their name and the things they love. Inside it: a gentle Christian value, a real Bible verse, and a small prayer to add tonight.

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Tonight's story
Tonight's virtue: Kindness6:30 PM

A real night's story, written for a real three-year-old.

Written for Oaklee, 3loves horses & dogsKJV

The Sheep Who Ate Alone

Oaklee sat on the pasture fence eating her lunch, her legs swinging, while her best friend Dash the horse grazed in the shade beside her.

Down in the pasture, the sheep were eating together in one big woolly bunch. All except one.

A little black sheep stood by the far corner of the fence, eating all alone. When it took a step toward the others, two sheep giggled and trotted away. "Not next to you," one of them said, and the woolly bunch closed up tight.

The black sheep went back to its corner and put its head down in the grass.

The meadow was loud and busy. Nobody else saw it happen.

But Oaklee saw.

She thought of the words her mom had read from the scriptures just that morning: "Love one another." Jesus said that to His friends. Oaklee looked at the little black sheep, eating with nobody at all.

She climbed down off the fence. She walked right past the big woolly bunch, all the way to the far corner, and sat down in the grass beside the black sheep.

"Can I eat my lunch with you?" she asked.

The black sheep's ears lifted. It looked at her for a long moment. Then it took one small step closer and ate the grass right beside her knee.

A warm, quiet feeling settled inside Oaklee — the kind that comes when you do what Jesus would do.

She broke off a piece of her apple and held it out flat on her hand, the way Dash had taught her. The black sheep ate it, soft lips tickling her palm, and Oaklee laughed.

Dash wandered over and grazed beside them. Then one of the woolly sheep wandered over too. Then another. And before the lunch was done, the whole flock was eating together in the far corner — because that was where Oaklee was, and Oaklee was where the black sheep was.

Walking home, Dash nodded his big head the way horses do, as if to say he had seen the whole thing.

The sun sank low behind the hills. Supper was warm. The bath was warmer.

Oaklee climbed into her own soft bed, and her legs were tired the good way.

Out in the pasture, the black sheep slept in the middle of the flock.

Oaklee smiled once more, remembering.

Her eyes grew heavy. The house went quiet.

Goodnight, Oaklee. Sleep well.

…the story continues tonight, in your inbox.

Tonight's verse
"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
John 13:34 (KJV)
Add to tonight's prayer

Jesus asked His friends to love one another, especially those that are alone. Tonight, try asking God to help you notice who's alone tomorrow, and to be brave enough to be a friend to them.

How it works

Five minutes tonight. A seed that outlasts it.

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Tell us about your child

Their name, the world they love, their favorite things, and the Bible translation your family reads.

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A new story arrives at 6:30

A brand-new adventure starring them, with the verse and the night's prayer, lands in your inbox right on time for bedtime.

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Read it together

A story, a short verse, and a small prayer to add. No lecture, no wrestling match. Just the last five minutes of the day, pointed at what matters most.

The curriculum

Thirteen virtues, one at a time.

Every story teaches exactly one Christlike virtue from a rotating curriculum, and the verse lands where the story turns. Tonight's virtue is stamped on tonight's story.

Kindness·Courage·Honesty·Forgiveness·Patience·Gratitude·Humility·Service·Gentleness·Self-Control·Generosity·Faith·Love

What the story engine will never decide

Written for your child. Watched over by a parent.

My daughter hears these too

I wrote the rules every story must follow. And every night, my own three-year-old gets her story from the same engine yours does. I read it, and when one isn't good enough for her, the rules change until it is.

Scripture is never rewritten

Bible verses are always quoted word-for-word from real translations: KJV, WEB, or BSB, your family's choice. The stories are new every night. The Word never is.

Built for bedtime

Nothing scary, nothing sad without repair, nothing that winds a child up at bedtime. Every story ends slow, quiet, and close, built to descend toward sleep.

Why we made Faith Tales

My biggest concern as a parent is making sure I'm doing all I can so my children know their Savior and King. And most days it doesn't feel like enough. By the end of the day, I'm spent.

My kids deserve all of me. But by 7:30, after work and dinner and the general chaos of a house with little kids in it, what they actually get is whatever's left of me. Some nights that's not much, and I'd feel it almost every night when I went to bed.

It felt like teaching them about Jesus kept getting squeezed out. Teaching kids anything is hard, and teaching them to be Christlike when you're running on fumes felt impossible. We'd try. It would turn into a wrestling match. I'd give up by verse three and lie awake feeling like I was failing at the one job I actually care about.

I needed a way in. A way to connect with them.

Then one day something clicked: when Jesus wanted a truth to stick, He didn't lecture. He told a story. A lost sheep. A good Samaritan. A seed in the soil. The most important teacher in history taught the most important truths through stories.

And my kids? My kids beg for stories. It's the one part of bedtime with no fight in it. The answer had been there the whole time.

I spent the next few months in the scriptures and learning to build what became Faith Tales. Every night, a new story arrives with your child right in the middle of it. One story. One short verse. One small prayer addition and one seed planted. Just five minutes of real connection with your kid, pointed at the thing that matters most.

I can't always give my kids more hours or more energy, and I'm by no means perfect. But I can make sure the last five minutes of their day plants something that outlasts my exhaustion.

Plant the seed. Let it grow.

— Mitch & family

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  • A new personalized story for every child, every night
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  • A real Bible verse + a prayer to add, with every story
  • Update each child's favorites anytime
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After our founding circle

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for your first child, then $6/month for each additional child. Every child gets their own nightly story, written just for them.

Founding families keep $9 flat for all their children, forever. That's the lock.

The Father's Pen

Every story written by a real author. Each one takes hours of careful drafting, rewriting, and reading aloud at his own kids' bedtime before it ever reaches yours. A growing library, one story each night, with your child's name woven in.

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"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

— Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)

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