What Family Ministries is

Family Ministries starts by refusing a narrow definition. The traditional picture of a mother, a father and two children describes fewer and fewer of the households in any congregation, and a ministry built only for that picture quietly excludes most of the room.

The stated mission across the North American Division is to provide resources, training and connection that instil hope and bring wholeness to families. The vision is shorter: reaching families for eternity. In practice that means marriage support, parenting support, and help for households under strain — before the strain becomes a crisis.

Faith is passed down at the kitchen table far more often than from a pulpit. Family Ministries exists because that table is where most of the work actually happens.