Focus on the Family's Church Outreach team is here to serve the needs of local churches around the world, to equip its leaders and members in building God-honoring families, and to encourage them to make an impact in their community and culture.
God has a wonderful design for the family ... to grow, to nurture life, to serve Him, and to make Him known.
However, even within the church today, many families are struggling under life's challenges.
Families in the church are under attack, and they are experiencing spiritual and moral decay because the Word of God is not active in their homes.
We believe the local church is the answer to these family issues, but we also realize that many churches and pastors are not sure how to help these families. It can be difficult to recognize hurting families on Sunday morning, and many times as a pastor, you are not aware of the problem until it's too late.
The Family Ministry Process is not a program or a "cookie cutter" approach into which your church must fit — we realize every church is as unique as the needs of each of their families.
Focus on the Family presents Charting Your Family's Spiritual Course, a God-honoring, Christ-centered guide that gives you, as a parent, grandparent, and even as an individual, practical tools to design a spiritual growth plan for your family - and more importantly equips you to put your plan into practice.
The spiritual and moral decay of our society is having a devastating effect on today's families as they are under siege from media, being pulled in different directions, and dealing with peer pressure and generational gaps. Are you equipped to reverse this trend in your family?
Charting Your Family's Spiritual Course will give you a step-by-step plan for raising kids who know and love God — making an impact on this generation — and the generations to come.
We have financial plans and retirement plans, but do we have a spiritual plan for our families?
"A priority of my relationship with Christ has been reinvesting in my family the life I receive from Him. Now I am devoting my life to equipping families like yours. I hope you will take your place alongside me, investing in families — beginning with your own — by attending this workshop. I pray that together we will embark on a journey of family reformation."
Terence Chatmon, Vice President of Community Impact Outreach
The Family Ministry Process brochure will illustrate how Focus on the Family can help your church develop, launch and sustain your Family Ministry strategy. Download Now! (3.4MB .pdf)
What is a Family Champion? A couple that exhibits a healthy, God-honoring marriage and family and is willing to support their pastor in the development and implementation of a family ministry plan. Characteristics of a Family Champion include: a healthy marriage; a husband that models spiritual leadership in the home; they demonstrate Godly parenting, if they are parents; they are Strong in the Lord; and they are passionate about building strong families.
Sample guide to Charting Your Family's Spiritual Course. Download Now!
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