Inside out families
Subtitle: living the faith together
By: Diana Garland
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781602582453
Description: Diana Garland here guides congregational leaders to encourage families to engage together in the Christian practice of service. The fruit of family service, she writes, is not only a deeper understanding of one another and of what God is doing in the world but also the reordering of a family's values and time together. It is this communal service, she empirically demonstrates, that will develop in children and adolescents a resilient faith that will carry them into adulthood--and, ultimately, prove essential to maintaining a resilient faith in congregational life. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-163) and index.
Table of contents: title: Families and faith. Used furniture, saws, and lawnmowers; title: When did we see you hungry?; title: The path into family ministry. Chutes and ladders; title: Come go with me; title: Remembering why we serve; title: Becoming an inside out congregation.