Family Ministry Field Guide
Subtitle: how your church can equip parents to make disciples
Publisher: Wesleyan Publishing House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Indianapolis, IN
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780898274578
Copyright date: 2011
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Mark DeVries; title: Introduction : The gap in your church; title: Foundation 1 : Map the gap.; title: 1. What families in your church are doing, and not doing, when you're not looking; title: 2. What family ministry is and why it's worth it; title: Foundation 2 : Rethink your goal.; title: 3. Why not to do family ministry; title: 4. How to find the right motivation; title: Foundation 3 : Frame your ministry in God's story line.; title: 5. Discover who your children really are; title: 6. The split in God's story line; title: Foundation 4 : Give parents the guidance they need.; title: 7. We're supposed to do that at home?; title: 8. A matter of training and a matter of time; title: 9. Providing what parents really need; title: Foundation 5 : Transition to family-equipping.; title: 10. Killing the one-eared Mickey Mouse; title: 11. Family-equipping transition 1 : Be; title: 12. Family-equipping transition 2a : Equip families for faith talks; title: 13. Family-equipping transition 2b : Equip families for faith walks and faith processes; title: 14. Family-equipping transition 3 : Acknowledge; title: 15. Family-equipping transition 4 : Synchronize (with W. Ryan Steenburg); title: Afterword; title: Twelve tools to equip families; title: Worksheets.; title: A. Family discipleship perceptions and practices survey; title: B. Motives matter; title: C. Living in God's story line; title: D. What message are we sending?; title: E. TIE your ministry together; title: Appendix : Survey methodology and results; title: About the author