Thanksgiving Celebrations for the Home
Plan for some time during the holiday to be a time of rest. Set aside a minimum of one hour for your family to take a walk together or to sit together and listen to soothing music or to sit in silence for a while then talk together.
2009 Advent Home Worship
Advent is the season when we prepare ourselves to receive God's gift of Jesus. It is a time of "getting ready" for the celebration of Christmas. Here are some ways you can prepare yourself and your family for celebrating Jesus' birth.
Children's Ministry Forum '10: "Fill My Cup, Lord" - Raleigh, NC, February 23-25, 2010
Get ready to go! Prepare for a life-changing experience in Raleigh, NC for the 2010 Children's Ministry Forum! Come ready to be re-energized, to refocus and refuel that we might transform the world – one child at a time.
2009 Christian Home Month: Families Called to Love
The Christian Home Resources are designed for use by family ministry leaders, family life council chairpersons/coordinators, and family ministries teams in local congregations.
Safe Sanctuaries
Safe Sanctuaries is more than guidelines, policies and procedures implemented to create an environment in which children, youth and the adults who work with them have boundaries of safe space. Safe Sanctuaries is an overt expression of a congregation in making a congregation a safe place where children and youth may experience the abiding love of God and fellowship within the community of faith.
African American Family Life Bibliography
Resolution 57, found in The Book of Resolutions of the United Methodist Church 2004, charges the General Board of Discipleship with providing a listing of resources and programs developed to strengthen African American family life.
United Methodist Marriage Ministries
Downloadable resources that support marriage ministries.
