2009 Christian Home Month: Families Called to Love -- Family Covenant for Love

This covenant will be in effect from _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (beginning date) to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (ending date).

In order that our family may be one that promotes love for one another, we promise one another to:

1. Seek God's presence through regular Bible study, reflection, and prayer together.


2. Love one another unconditionally -- loving each person, even while naming behaviors that might need to be changed.


3. Seek ways to praise and lift up actions of others in the family when they have shared God's love and shown love for others.


4. Learn about those places in our community that support families, such as: programs addressing abuse in the family; food pantries or home-building projects that show love to those who are without; hospitals and hospices that provide for families when loved ones are ill. As a family, we will decide on a way to offer service to one of these places.


5. Share at least one family meal per week. For those in our family who are not in the same location, we will decide on a common day for a meal each week and as we dine separately, pray for one another or call one another and pray together by phone.


6. Seek out stories of love at church, in the newspaper, on the internet, at school, at work, at home, and tell these stories to one another.

Signed by: ______________________________________________
(All family members sign the covenant.)

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