Discuss different ways your group members can promote peace in their homes.
Sue Skalicky
Group Outreach
In 1979, Mother Teresa received the esteemed Nobel Peace Prize. She was a selfless Roman Catholic nun devoted to caring and loving the poor, the sick, the dying, the unwanted, and the lonely in Calcutta, India, and to influencing others to do the same around the world. After receiving the prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered without hesitation, ...
Subgroup to think of strategies for protecting the minds and hearts of our children.
Tami Rudkin
We are in the fight of our lives for our kids. With computers, music, and visual media our kids are exposed to all kinds of beliefs and lifestyles that are not only destructive but deadly. Have your group break up into small groups of three and have them make a list of three ways to fight for our kids' spiritual, physical, and emotional lives. After five minutes have someone from each group share ...
How to personalize prayers for children who may wander.
Sue Skalicky
Group Outreach
I had reached the end of myself. I longed to wake up and have it all be a nightmare. I wept in my bed, knowing that downstairs, directly below me, my 15-year-old daughter—smelling of smoke and having confessed to me hours before the drugs and the sex—was curled up in her fuzzy green blanket searching for answers to the ache in her heart. My heart also ached as my mind fitfully ...
The Dads of Destiny Small Group Program is positively impacting families.
Bill Beahm Ph.D.
Something has dramatically changed in the value system of Americans today. Fathers are increasingly absent from the home, and children are being raised in a fatherless society.
A recent study by the National Center for Fathering has revealed that 72.2 percent of Americans agree that the most significant family or social problem facing America is the physical absence of the father from the home. Why ...
Back in the 60s, Billy Graham asserted that the eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour of the week. Of course, he was talking about racial and ethnic issues, but there is another segregation that has been going on in church for many years: the segregation of our households. Today in many, if not most, of our church's worship services, our kids stay with their parents until _________. ...
One of the biggest areas of contention in small group ministry can be how to handle childcare.
Michael C. Mack
It takes a village to raise a child."
This African proverb expounds the importance of community in child rearing. Oh, yes, parents take on the awesome responsibility, but I believe that in our society we also take on more of the sole burden than we should. This is true mostly because we have forgotten just how to live in community ourselves. What was normal and natural in the past has disintegrated ...
After 12 years of marriage and a decade of Christian service, my husband and I decided to begin a new small group in our home … a very small group. In fact, our group consisted of just the two of us. It seemed that raising our son, work schedules and church obligations allowed us to minister to many people. We touched so many other people's lives that we never saw each other. It doesn't surprise ...
If parents were expected to come, there would also be children. How were we to get over this hurdle?
Carol Perry
I was sure that, with all I had learned with my vast experience as a parent, I should lead a parenting small group in our church. Surely these parents could learn a thing or two from my successes and failures. So, off I set on a new adventure with my Lord.
It didn't take long for the reality to set in!
If parents were expected to come, there would also be children. How were we to get over this hurdle? ...
This six-session course helps parents who are searching for Biblical advice about disciplining their children.
As parents, our most difficult task is where to draw the line. Nothing causes more conflict in our souls than how to deal with this sticky problem. To help parents discuss this, we've developed a six-session course on the subject, covering such topics as using natural consequences to discipline, how to have realistic expectations, how to teach a good work ethic, how to stop the whining, how to get ...
This six-session course helps single parents navigate the struggles and joys of parenting on their own.
Being a single parent is one of the tougher jobs a person can be given. This six-session course gives perspective on unique problems that a single parent faces, such as: tight budgets, parental visits, time for yourself, spiritual encouragement, dating again, and loving your job as a parent. Written by a single parent, this course will encourage you that although the job is tough, it's not impossible ...
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