7 Family Ministry Essentials: A Strategy for Culture Change in Children's and Student Ministries

by Michelle Anthony; Megan Marshman

Publisher:

David C. Cook

, 2015

Overview

With decades of ministry experience, Michelle Anthony and Megan Marshman capture the guiding essentials of life-changing family ministry. These seven essentials for children and student leaders emphasize:

Empowering families to take spiritual leadership in the home

Forming lifetime faith that transcends childhood beliefs

Teaching Scripture as the ultimate authority of truth

Understanding the role of the Holy Spirit to teach and transform

Engaging every generation in the gospel of God’s redemptive story

Making God central in every biblical narrative and daily living

Participating in community with like-minded ministry leaders

Family Ministry Essentials will energize and equip you with the practical steps, inspirational stories, and biblical foundation you need as you lead those in your ministry.

Key Features

• Provides protein-rich principles and examples of family ministry
• Dismantles the juggernaut of today's well-intentioned but fatally flawed family ministry models
• Helps church leaders and parents reimagine faith formation in ways that resonate with clarity and authenticity

Contents

• What If We Were Invited into Something BIG?
• Essential One: Empowering Family as Primary
• Essential Two: Spiritual Formation for Lifetime Faith
• Essential Three: Scripture Is Our Authority
• Essential Four: The Holy Spirit Teaches
• Essential Five: God's Grand Redemptive Narrative
• Essential Six: God Is Central
• Essential Seven: A Community of Ministry Support
• Getting Set to Lead a New Generation

Praise for 7 Family Ministry Essentials

In this book, Michelle and Megan share lessons they have learned in their own leadership successes and failures. They offer practical advice to help ministry leaders shape growing ministries and develop amazing leaders. I can guarantee you will be challenged and stretched!

Ryan Frank, CEO of KidzMatter

Talk about passion! Michelle and Megan serve up some timely encouragement for church leaders, parents, and students alike to awaken to their God-given roles in the life of the family. Immediately translatable, these seven essentials will serve as a catalyst for long-range, transformational family ministries to be established, cultivated, and inspired.

Brent Eldridge, lead pastor of Arbor Road Church, Long Beach, California

There has been no shortage of descriptions of why the church is failing the family, but rarely do we find prescriptions that help a pastoral staff do anything to change it. Michelle Anthony and Megan Marshman will not only make you aware of the challenges we face but also inspire you to equip and empower families for lifelong discipleship. I can't wait to have my staff and seminary students interact with their ideas.

Bill Staffieri, senior pastor of Beachpoint Church and adjunct professor at Talbot Seminary

Product Details

• Title: 7 Family Ministry Essentials: A Strategy for Culture Change in Children’s and Student Ministries
• Authors: Michelle Anthony, Megan Marshman
• Publisher: David C. Cook
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 240
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Church › Ministry--Youth; Church work with children; Church work with teenagers
• ISBNs: 9781434709332, 1434709337
• Resource ID: LLS:9781434709332
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:57:33Z