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 [...]
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 [...]
Is music a necessity for family worship and devotional times? No-but it sometimes helps! If you’re interested in Scripture-based music for your family’s worship times, try Seeds Family Worship:
Adapted from the book Perspectives on Family Ministry
To envision the family-equipping model in action, imagine a river with large stones jutting through the surface of the water. The river represents children’s growth and development. One riverbank signifies the church, and the other riverbank connotes the family. Both banks are necessary for the river to [...]
Reprinted from Towers, February 13, 2009
The School of Leadership and Church Ministry at Southern Seminary has introduced a family ministry model that centers on equipping parents to biblically train their children.
Designed for future associate pastors, the new approach, called the Family Equipping Ministry Model, seeks to address a weakness in the [...]
Adapted from the book Perspectives on Family Ministry
In late 2007 and early 2008, Dr. Randy Stinson and I worked together to develop a specific approach to family ministry. We studied dozens of approaches to family ministry, and we identified a handful of churches that were doing what we felt that God was leading us [...]
Through the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Crossway Books has made available in its entirety an excellent resource for family-equipping ministries, Dennis Rainey’s book Building Strong Families. To access the book, go to http://www.cbmw.org/Building-Strong-Families/. Included in the book is Dennis Rainey’s chapter “Local Church Family Ministry in the New Millennium.”
Perspectives on Family Ministry: Three Views . Ed. by Timothy Paul Jones. Nashville: Broadman and Holman Academic, October 2009. 213 pp.
Introduction
Dr. Timothy Paul Jones, the editor of this book, served for fourteen years in vocational ministry. He is now an Associate Professor of Leadership [...]
“What resources would you recommend to help our church move toward a Family-Equipping Ministry Model?” I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve been asked that question-and I’m always glad to answer it! I’m glad to answer it because it typically means that a minister or other church leader wants to equip [...]
By Randy Stinson
We have grown accustomed to ministering to children and youth in ways that are just not as effective as they are supposed to be; as a result, there is now a genuine movement of pastors and youth ministers asking themselves: Is what we are doing really effective in a lasting, [...]
A stirring call to Christian families and churches to be a people who care for orphans, not just in word, but in deed.
The gospel of Jesus Christ-the good news that through Jesus we have been adopted as sons and daughters into God’s family-means that Christians ought to be at the forefront of the adoption of [...]
