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Devotional Material
Family Times Virtue Packs

FamilyTimes Virtue Packs provide activities to be used once a week during each of these four family times - MealTime, DriveTime, BedTime, and MorningTime. All of this is designed to give parents simple ways to help their kids grow in faith and character.  The cheapest and easiest way to receive FamilyTimes is through a subscription. Subscriptions will arrive each month before the start of the month they are intended for use. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time.  If you want to try FamilyTimes you can order a single pack by visiting The reThink Group Store at www.rethinkgroup.org.  For more information on Family Times check out their website at http://www.familytimes.org/

Family Mealtime Devotionals
Mealtime Moments, a new Heritage Builders product from Focus on the Family, provides families with fun, interactive conversation starters to use around the table. Each one has a special biblical lesson! Kids will have fun getting involved with games, trivia questions, and theme nights, all based on spiritually sound ideas. Parents will have a framework for making mealtime into a fun, interactive teaching time! Check it out at http://www.focusonthefamily.com/ 

Books
Boundaries with Kids by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

Here's the help you need to raise kids who take responsibility for their lives and attitudes.  Parents will learn how to set loving limits, bring control to an out-of-control life, define appropriate boundaries and consequences for children, and much more.

Boundaries with Teens by Dr. John Townsend
Strong, healthy boundaries are the key to a strong, healthy relationship with your teen.  Discover how to set healthy boundaries for both yourself and your teen to enhance your relationship and their relationships with others.  Includes sections on how to deal with special situations like drug and alcohol use, cutting , sex, defiance, school, and disrespect. 

Grace Based Parenting by Dr. Tim Kimmel
Dr. Kimmel explains how fear-based parenting is a guaranteed method to set children up for failure.  Learn how to meet your child's three driving needs for security, significance and strength with the invaluable gifts of love, purpose, and hope.
 

Family Driven Faith by Voddie T. Baucham, Jr.
This book will equip parents with the tools they need to raise children biblically in a post-Christian, anti-family society.  Voddie Baucham, along who with his wife has overcome a multi-generational legacy of broken and dysfunctional homes, shows

that God  has not left us alone in raising godly children.  Check out his website at http://www.familydrivenfaith.org/

The Family God Uses by Tom & Kim Blackaby
The Family God Uses is designed to encourage families to see their potential in working together in God's Kingdom. There is hard-cover book available and a workbook edition from LifeWay Publishers.

Revolutionary Parenting by George Barna
Barna surveyed thriving adult Christians and discovered the essential steps thier parents took to shape childhood character.  He reveals surprising information about popular parenting tactics and shows you how to install a vibrant commitment to Christ in your kids.

Web Sites
www.focusonlinecommunities.com/community/parenting
Focus on the Family has an online parenting community where you can share and solicit ideas for integrating your Christian Faith with you daily family life.

http://www.familylife.com/                                                                                                                                                                                  The mission of FamilyLife is to help people change the world one home at a time.   They provide tools to help families become stronger and tools that help you become the very best parent you can be.

http://www.homeword.com/  
HomeWord seeks to advance the work of God in the world by educating, equipping, and encouraging parents and churches to build God-honoring families from generation to generation.

www.almenconi.com
All Menconi Ministries helps parents to evaluate today's entertainment from a biblical perspective, and equips them to teach values through Christian music.

www.purefreedom.org
Pure Freedom, founded by Bob and Dannah Gresh, provides resources with radically-unique approaches to focus on specific issues that teen girls and/or guys face in the area of purity and holiness.

http://www.pluggedinonline.com/
Plugged in is a Focus on the Family publication designed to help equip parents, youth leaders, ministers and teens with the essential tools that will enable them to understand, navigate and impact the culture in which they live.

Magazines
Parent Life
ParentLife offers help, information, and advice in all the right areas: health, education, discipline, safety, and spiritual development.  Available at  http://www.lifeway.com/  or by contacting the church office. 

Living with Teenagers
Written by parents for parents, Living with Teenagers offers help, hope, and sound advice for parents of teenagers. Each issue forces practical answers to real-life questions from a Christian perspective. Living with Teenagers helps you grow your relationships with your teenager and guide them toward responsible Christian adulthood.  Available at http://www.lifeway.com/  or by contacting the church office.


Simulcast Event - Via CCN Satellite
Focus on Parenting - Live Satellite Simulcast, Saturday, November 14, 2009
Hosted by First Baptist Church - Havelock
9:30am - 4:30pm (doors open at 8:30am)
Cost: $25 or $49 per couple (includes lunch and refreshments - child care provided)

With Focus on Parenting, you will receive wisdom, encouragement and practical everyday tools from leading parenting experts such as Dr. Kevin Leman, Elisa Morgan-MOPS, Larry Fowler - Awana, Mark Holmen, Ron Luce, Phil Vischer, Dr. July Slattery and Bob Waliszewski all of whom have a passion for seeing kids thrive - specifically yours!  Contact the church office for more information or to purchase tickets.