Family Ministry involves the discipleship, care, and resourcing of families of all ages and all stages to love Jesus with their whole hearts for their whole lives in Christian community. It’s not just the developmental stages either. Life happens. Challenges come from all directions to distract and attack the family which is the nurturing vehicle for littles and bigs to become more like Jesus. Challenges like addiction, facing infertility, prodigal children, a difficult marriage, family finances, raising a child with special needs, empty nest, exploring adoption/foster care, your child’s schooling options, hoping to marry, and more.

At the 2024 Children’s Pastors Conference, I discovered a fantastic tool for families: Homepointe. Homepointe is an equipping resource from a Biblical worldview. The pieces I saw came in a hardcopy and digital format to help families drive faith home as children aged as well as equipping ideas for celebrating holidays.

The Homepointe strategy is to set the table for intentionality to fulfil the Deuteronomy 6 call to family discipleship by making it easy, likely, and making it happen.

Last summer I learned the team who designed the resources partnered with D6 to include resources for special circumstances. Special circumstances families face every day where the local church with trained pastoral direction should be the ‘go-to’ for navigating well, but typically don’t. Jesus is the answer to all the world’s ‘special circumstances’. The Holy Bible is the basis for walking through all ‘special circumstances’ because there is nothing new under the sun.

Our local church has partnered with Homepointe to equip our congregation for both the joyful moments and the tough times. We also see this as a tool to help us begin meaningful, faith-centered conversations with people we already know—our extended family, coworkers, and people we interact with regularly (like hairdressers, medical staff, and childcare providers).

We spoke about the Homepointe partnership during the Christian to the Core: Family sermon series a couple of months ago. Last Sunday we rolled out the Homepointe partnership at an after-church picnic.

The printed resources are digitally provided which can be customized with your logo and space to offer connection through a QR code for the website and more. The printed resources for birthdays can be purchased separately since there is much more to share to make it super easy to roll out as our littles celebrate specific birthdays. We did this, too. We’ll start with the beginning of the church liturgical year, Advent.

Find out more information here or contact me directly. I receive no financial benefit. Homepointe is just a really great resource to guide us to disciple, care, and resource our families through life with Jesus at the center. D6 provides a free assessment your local church can use to aid families to know from where they’re starting here.

“Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.” Galatians 6:10