Family Ministry Investment

Now that our family ministry summer is over at Bush, I am ready to get back on the road to work with churches to help move them towards a family equipping ministry model that helps them better develop spiritual leaders for the next generation.
I am looking for five churches to invest in this coming year and our goal is to help move those churches from where they are to a family equipping ministry model. I am looking for leaders who believe in three ideas.
First, that God instituted the family as the primary means of communicating his truth from one generation to the next, and that parents have the primary role in discipling their children.
Second, that God instituted the church as an aid, to equip parents for the ministry of leading their families spiritually and discipling their children, and to supplement what parents are doing at home by reinforcing it in a corporate setting.
Third, that the church fulfills a missional role, through age graded ministry, in reaching children and youth from unbelieving homes and by engaging the parents in the spiritual development of their children, reaching out to lost and broken families.
My vision is to work with those churches in three main areas. I would like to help equip their ministry team with resources and strategies to move toward a family equipping model. In this area, I think Legacy offers over five years of research in the area of youth and family ministry, years of practical experience implementing ministry strategies in local churches, and a network of ministries and churches who are making the family equipping model work in various settings.
Next, I would like to help equip their lay leadership and volunteers with the ideas and tools that they can use to communicate with parents, implement the ministry elements necessary, and invest in the lives of children and youth in a way that supplements parents fulfilling their biblical role instead of encouraging them to abdicate their role.
Most important, I would like to help communicate to parents how they can have a more positive and active role in the spiritual development of their children. In this area I think it is helpful to have someone echo the voice of the pastors in communicating parents biblical role as primary spiritual influencers. Again, we bring a wealth of research on the influence of parents. We are also able to help parents better communicate with their children by helping them understand youth culture, and giving them ideas for creating spiritual conversation. Finally, we can help parents better understand what are the primary things that they need to communicate to their children in terms of fundamental biblical knowledge, Christian worldview, and personal devotional life.
I believe in these principles and concepts so passionately that I am willing to invest in the lives of these churches, leaders and parents for an entire year. Please help me be able to do that by sharing my vision with churches who may be interested in receiving our help, and by continuing to support Legacy, so that we can invest in them for only the cost of our expenses.
Together we can make a real investment in families and develop true spiritual leaders for the next generation.