The family-friendly church /by Ben Freudenburg, with Rick Lawrence.
Description
Sounding the alarm. Trouble at home -- Trouble at church -- Five discoveries about the home. Family business -- Quantity and quality -- Nothing's "natural" about healthy relationships -- Church vs. home -- Regaining control -- Six imperatives for a family-friendly church. From program-focused to need-responsive -- Staffing properly -- Supporting home-centered staff -- Training faith-shaping parents -- A homey church environment -- It takes a village to raise a child -- Concluding thoughts -- Shifting the church's paradigm. Surfing the paradigm shift -- How the church's vision will change -- How faith development will change -- How faith-development programs will change -- A new church position : family minister -- Churchwide implications -- Appendices. Develop your own family mission statement -- What does a model teenager's faith look like?^^Fourteen hopes for our children -- Developing a vision for a family-centered church -- A sabbatical plan for investigating family ministry -- Job descriptions for home-centered, church-supported ministry -- Celebrate the child : a home Christmas banner kit for a family Christmas eve service -- Bible presentation Sunday letter -- Bookmark -- Family Bible hour discussion worksheet -- Home month -- Home faith-development ideas -- Reading list.
174 pages :illustrations ;23 cm
Book Details
Author
Freudenburg, Ben F.
Place Published
City
Loveland, Colo.
Publication Subjects
Church work with families.
Christian education--Home training.
Call No.
BV4438 .F76 1998
ISBN
0764420488, 9780764420481
LCCN
98016144
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174).
Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier
Media type: unmediatednrdamedia
Date: [1998]
Publication Info: {copy}1998