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Practical Resources

The Center for Family and Community Ministries offers resources and curricula to help your church take the next steps that you need to move your members' passion from the pew to the pavement. We are committed to helping churches live out their faith in service with families and communities.

Power and the Christian
is a Sunday School or small group study or sermon help that explores how individuals can be persons in power responsibly and in ways that protect and benefit those for whom they are responsible.

Family Ministry Resources
The CFCM has many resources and engages in a variety of projects designed to help us learn more about families and to help servant leaders better care for families.

Marriage Resources
These resources include practice suggestions for marriage ministries, articles exploring best-practices for congregational and denominational leaders, and links to other websites to help you with your marriage ministry.

Grief Resources
These resources are brief handouts for church leaders, longer published papers with details about other resources, and several powerpoint presentations for use in your congregation for preparing for experiences of care related crisis, loss, and mourning.

Community Resources
These resources include the Walking Alongside materials to help begin strengthen or sustain the community ministries of your congregation; including, the Walking Alongside curriculum, which includes three sets of curricula.

Family and Faith Book Series
These resources include the families and faith book series which is committed to exploring the relationship between the spiritual life and our closest human relationships. This book series includes Family Ministry: Empowing Through Faith by Diana Garland.

The Journal of Family and Community Ministries
This quarterly journal is published by the Center for Family and Community Ministry. This unique hands-on resource will benefit anyone concerned about ministry with families and communities including pastors, educators, counselors, social workers, or lay leaders. Formerly published as Family Ministry.