This is a piece in our ongoing Parenting Ministry 101 series, directed towards church and family ministry leaders.  Family ministry is seeing a resurgence in the local church, but we are missing a key piece. Led by wonderful minds in the youth ministry world, more churches are turning their attention toward equipping parents for the

The modern church is quickly reclaiming the value of family in ministry. The rise of adolescence in the early 20th century, coupled with the responding surge of age-segregated ministry throughout the church, relegated family ministry to the backburner for much of the latter part of the 20th century. But today, everywhere you turn, you find more

The Parent’s Summit has three distinct guiding goals – that we would equip, encourage and resource parents. Two of those goals – equipping and resourcing, may seem similar on face value. But they are significantly different goals, with significantly different outcomes and audiences. They shouldn’t be confused, and they shouldn’t be neglected. Unfortunately, all too often,

Churches are very good at starting ministries. Most leadership teams are well acquainted with the process of identifying a need and drawing up an action plan, recruiting leadership and volunteer staff and then training, promoting and launching a ministry initiative, much like the process outlined in Acts 6. Unfortunately, when it comes to launching a