By: Ryan Marcum

Ryan Marcum — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:32:14 +0000

Thanks Brenda! I believe Family Ministry will be at the forefront of seminaries and publishers. I only wish churches as a whole would embrace family ministry.

By: Mark McMahan

Mark McMahan — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:12:32 +0000

Hi Ryan,
Thanks for putting together some thoughts for pastors and parents wanting to change the spiritual direction of families.
This past year, in recongnition of this same need, The Shelby Kennedy Foundation has sought to provide the parents with Family Discipleship materials as a part of the National Bible Bee, currently in its second year and with a completely different focus. Sure we host an optional contest for our youth participants at the end of the Summer, but we are far more interested in coming along side of families and providing them the resources they need to disciple their own children. We do this by balancing the emphasis across Bible knowledge, Bible memory and prayer. The Bible knowledge component provides an inductive Bible study written at the appropriate age levels for the child (7-10 yo; 11-14; 15-18) as well as an adult level study, that all track at the same pace through one book of the Bible over the course of the Summer (12 weeks). We also provide some discussion questions to the parent to use during the weekly Family Bonfire Time (a consistent discussion time led by the parent(s) including the whole family).
We have received volumes of positive feedback from not only parents but from churches desiring to have their families all studying the same book at the same pace in age appropriate material.
I hope this may be of some help to a family or church that doesn’t have a plan yet but is desiring to go down this road.

By: Brenda Seefeldt

Brenda Seefeldt — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:45:11 +0000

Please keep the conversation going. I’m in year 9 of such ministry and am reaping its fruits.

Comments on: Youth Ministry & Family Discipleship

By: Ryan Marcum

By: Mark McMahan

By: Brenda Seefeldt