Easily the most positive feedback we receive is about the impact of our family ministry environments. Casey Ross, our Family Ministry Director, and his team have branded the ministry to focus on partnering with parents. Anyone who leads successful churches knows how important family ministry is - parents will put up with a worship environment if their kids love their environments. It's a double bonus if you help parents succeed in shaping their kids. I'm pumped about the environments and resources our team has created and how God is already using them to encourage families.
To further partner with parents, our family ministry team is launching a blog just for parents called FamilyNoise: Clarity and Strategy for Your Family. I am excited to see how God uses this blog to connect with more families in the Upstate and to help leaders in other family ministries think through their strategies for partnering with parents.
I'll post again when the blog goes live.
Jay, I said the same thing just the other day. "I can really mess things up in the main worship gathering and the parents will forgive me because their children love their gathering."
Posted by: donnie | September 22, 2006 at 12:46 PM