Welcome to Homeward Revival

Hi, my name is Meghann, the voice behind Homeward Revival, and I am so glad you are here. My husband and I have been married for 20 years this year, and parents for 18 of those years. Our children are 18, 16, 13, 10, 4, and 2. Our family life and priorities have transformed dramatically over the years. We actually didn’t start married life as Believers. But having lived life and raised children for a while “before Jesus” it makes us all the more passionate about encouraging other families that marriage and family lived for and with Jesus is infinitely better.

Homeward Revival began with a desire to share with other families what we have witnessed over the years, that true revival for Jesus actually begins in our homes long before it reaches churches and stadiums.

I envisioned providing a joyful resource for families that approached faith and the Gospel with reverence, but also had elements of playfulness, and connection to the daily rhythms of life at home. I believe that discipleship happens on a deeper, more memorable level, when we are playing with our children, exploring God’s creation and living life with the flow that The Father intended.

Homeward Revival began in late 2024 as a quarterly print magazine released to a handful of excited families. Each issue has been full of encouraging articles, fun nature based crafts and activities, nourishing recipes and family style Bible studies. There are also pages like word searches, scavenger hunts, and ad libs. My vision here was to recreate some of my favorites from the Highlighter magazines I used to love as a kid, but with a Jesus twist.

There has been such wonderful feedback from the families who enjoyed this past year of magazine issues. It has been such a joy to create something that really is helping to spark revival and a love of the Lord for these families.

Starting in June, we will be re-launching with improved production timelines, and more content within the pages of the magazine. 

Our long term vision for this Homeward Revival and this community:

While the magazine is visually beautiful (and so fun to create for you) I do want to be clear that I am not trying to promote an aesthetics only focus, that leads to a home life that only looks peaceful from the outside but bears no fruit. My goal with each issue, and each article here is to inspire your own vision for a deeply spiritual and connected family. I want to keep the Gospel at the center instead of the keeping of the home or the family itself becoming the idol.

My vision is to create more rooted and more Church of Acts-like encouragement for families.

Practically this looks like trying to live out our faith woven through shared meals, repentance after conflict, working side by side, normalizing prayer in ordinary moments throughout the day, and children participating in real life with their parents. The goal is a home where the movement of the Holy Spirit is palpable and where the joy of the Lord makes the home feel spiritually alive. I believe this is the kind of home our adult children will want to come back to and will desire to recreate in their own homes.

I want to normalize bringing that Church of Acts mindset back into our homes through teaching my children genuine hospitality, storytelling, creating things with our hands and God given talents, meaningful work, and mutual sacrifice.

I believe revival will break out in our homes as our children do life alongside us and actively witness the theology we teach them become tangible. I want my children to see us feed our neighbors, I want my children to feel welcomed into all our meaningful work, I want my children to see their dad be a husband who leads through wisdom, sacrifice and gentleness like Jesus, I want them to see me be a mom and wife who lives out love, compassion and strength without being diminished, I want them to live in a home where repentance is normalized, and ultimately, for them to remember home as a place of deep connection and lived out faith.

Let’s commit to praying for each other and praying with joyful expectation for the revivals we will all start right in our homes!