Family Ministry Today
The Center for Christian Family Ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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- What the Family-Equipping Model can learn from the Family-Based Model. (Part 04)
- by W. Ryan Steenburg – Dec 11
Family Ministry is currently comprised of three workable models. The Family-Integrated Ministry model is characterized by its removal of age segmented activities with all families, infants to parents, worshipping together. The Family-Based Ministry model maintains the age segmented programs and activities of most churches, yet intentionally provides curriculum, activities, and events designed to draw the [...]
Latest Video
Get the Flash Player to see this player.- What Sets Southern Seminary’s Family-Equipping Ministry Model Apart from Other Ministry Models?
What makes the Family-Equipping Ministry Model different from any other perspective on ministry? Watch this video from Randy Stinson to find out.
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Recent Posts
- What the Family-Based Model can learn from the Family-Equipping Model. (Part 03)
- by W. Ryan Steenburg – Dec 10
Family Ministry is currently comprised of three workable models. The Family-Integrated Ministry model is characterized by its removal of age segmented activities with all families, infants to parents, worshipping together. The Family-Based Ministry model maintains the age segmented programs and activities of most churches, yet intentionally provides curriculum, activities, and events designed to draw the [...]
- The Family-Based Model and the Family-Equipping Model: What the two can learn from each other. (Part 02)
- by W. Ryan Steenburg – Dec 9
Family Ministry is currently comprised of three workable models. The Family-Integrated Ministry model is characterized by its removal of age segmented activities with all families, infants to parents, worshipping together. The Family-Based Ministry model maintains the age segmented programs and activities of most churches, yet intentionally provides curriculum, activities, and events designed to draw the [...]
- The Family-Based Model and the Family-Equipping Model: What the two can learn from each other. (Part 01)
- by W. Ryan Steenburg – Dec 8
Family Ministry is currently comprised of three workable models. The Family-Integrated Ministry model is characterized by its removal of age segmented activities with all families, infants to parents, worshipping together. The Family-Based Ministry model maintains the age segmented programs and activities of most churches, yet intentionally provides curriculum, activities, and events designed to draw the [...]
- Don’t You Already Have Kids? Adding to your Existing Family through Adoption
- by W. Ryan Steenburg – Dec 2
Authored by: Randy Stinson
“I can hardly breathe,” I told my wife. And I meant it. We were in an old elevator headed to the third floor of a battered women’s shelter in downtown Taipei just seconds before meeting our two new daughters. They were 5 ½ and 3 ½ and were just as nervous [...]
- Eight Books for Family Devotional Times
- by Timothy Paul Jones – Oct 30
One emphasis in the Family-Equipping Ministry Model is equipping parents to lead devotional times in their homes. Here are eight books that may be helpful for parents in your congregation:
Adam Murrell. The Young Baptist’s Catechism. [Self-published.] $7.00.
Buy it here.Will your youngest children understand everything in this catechism? Of course not-but using catechisms [...]
- Family Worship
- by W. Ryan Steenburg – Oct 28
by David Prince
Reprinted with permission from The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
“Give ear, O my people, to my law; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, Which we have heard and known, And our [...]
Leadership
Dr. Randy Stinson
Dean of the School of Church Ministries
Dr. William Cutrer
C. Edwin Gheens Professor of Christian Ministry; Director, Gheens Center for Family Ministry