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Help a single parent family turn to God

I see many single parents turn to the church for help. They know they need help in working through a crisis. They understand they need support through prayer partners in the church. However, in today’s world a lot of people simply don’t know how to seek God. Church is foreign to them and they are clueless as to what goes on in that Read more…

Posted: April 18th, 2019 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Divorce Issues, Single Parents, Trauma

Why 35% of the children in your community aren’t connected with your ministry—and how you can reach them in 2018

Think of them as you would an “unreached people group”—except they live right in your own community, not in some faraway country. Today, according to the Annie E. Casey Kids Count Data Center, 35% of all children live in single-parent homes. Many of them are not involved in church and don’t know Jesus. Bottom line: their parents often don’t feel welcome in church Read more…

Posted: January 8th, 2018 ˑ 2 Comments
Filled under: Accept the Challenge, Attracting families, Divorce Issues, Modern families, Single Parents

Question of the week: Can children of divorce multitask effectively?

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Multitasking is the source of many behavior problems that you see in children of divorce. What do I mean by that? Well, hold on as I explain. Recently, while reviewing research on the brain, I read that multitasking is a myth—your brain can only focus on one thing at a time. As I thought about this idea, a lightbulb went off in my Read more…

Posted: May 10th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Discipline, Divorce Issues, Modern families, Question of the week, Single Parents

How many churches have been equipped with the DC4K, (DivorceCare for Kids) materials?

My first answer to the question above is not nearly enough! DC4K was released twelve years ago and to date a little 3,700 churches have been equipped with the DC4K materials. That is almost one church a day that has been equipped with a DC4K kit. Many churches will run several 13-week sessions in a year. We know thousands of children are having Read more…

Posted: July 18th, 2016 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Question of the week

Question of the week: What were the top 3 reasons you created DivorceCare for Kids?

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People often ask me why I created DC4K or DivorceCare for Kids. There are many reasons; hundreds of them, and they all have a name. They are boys and girls that I have known and worked with down through the years. The top 3 reasons I created DC4K, DivorceCare for Kids are: Reason #1 Approximately one million children a year see the Read more…

Posted: July 5th, 2016 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Accept the Challenge, Divorce Issues, Question of the week

Better understanding = better outcomes for children of divorce

How does a church, which focuses on traditional family ministry, minister to the child in fractured families, the child that has experienced trauma and the child of divorce? These are questions some churches seem to be wrestling with as they try to define exactly what family ministry looks like. Divorcing families have indeed changed the landscape of what families look like within the Read more…

Posted: January 11th, 2016 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Accept the Challenge, Divorce Issues, Emotions, Grandparents, Single Parents

A middle school teacher asks a tough question about tweens and divorce

A middle school teacher asked me a question that proved to be fairly thought provoking. I wanted to share his question and my thoughts toward his question. His question As a middle school teacher, I always wonder why some students deal very well with divorce, while others don’t? I would never make the assumption that they don’t do well, because many do. On Read more…

Posted: October 22nd, 2015 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Accept the Challenge, Disasters, Divorce Issues, Emotions, School Issues, Step and blended families, Stress