Family Ministries

Active Parenting Series:

Active Parenting
This is a twelve hour course recommended for six two-hour sessions presented one a week. Adults.

Active Parenting of Teens
Six dynamic sessions for parents of children in middle school on up. Two tapes, total time 166 minutes. Leader's and parents guides.

1. Parents and Teens Today.
2. Instilling Courage and Self-Esteem.
3. Developing Responsibilities.
4. Winning Cooperation Through Communication.
5. The Challenge of Alcohol and Other Drugs.
6. Parenting & Teen Sexuality.

Active Parenting Today
Newly revised edition for parents of 2 to 12 year olds. (2 videos, 4 booklets and 2 posters.)

Are You Healthwise?
Packet with study helps, interpreting handbook and instructor's manual.

Cry of Pain
An overview of child abuse and neglect in America. The film clearly reveals that abusive parents are not monsters; they are people who need help - our help. 16 minutes, adult. Guide.

Discovering Everyday Spirituality
Eight part video series (4 videos).

• Story - Parts 1 & 2
  Stories have the power to heal and set free, particularly the stories of our own lives.
• Place - Parts 3 & 4
  By paying attention to our homes and neighborhoods, we discover the spiritual geography of our lives.
• Activity- Parts 5 & 6
  All our activities-work, art or chores-can enhance and deepen our spiritual lives.
• Ritual - Parts 7 & 8
  Rituals give order and meaning to our lives, linking our inner and outer worlds.

The Family Matters
This moving series, designed to start conversation among adult viewers, offers something for most anyone who cares about family relationships. 22-28 minutes each.

1. Working Parents
2. Parents of Teenagers
3. People with Aging Parents
4. Single Parents
5. Blended Families
6. Parents Living Apart from their Children

Family Talk
Tape series prepared by Active Parenting that helps parents and children interact at home. 15 timely topics. 40 minutes.

• Family Decisions
• Television
• Okay to Feel Sad
• Money
• What's a Stepmom?
• Stress
• Honesty
• Teasing
• Grandmother
• Mother's Time
• Feeling Alone
• Minorities
• Equality
• Choices
• Mom & Dad's Time Together

Focus on the Family Film Series
Dr. James Dobson.

1. How to Raise the Strong-Willed Child. 123 minutes.
2. What Dads Need to Know About Fathering. 62 minutes.
3. How to Prepare for Adolescence. 99 minutes.
4. What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women. 82 mins.

Free the Horses: A Self-Esteem Adventure
Helps you teach children in grades 1 through 3 to believe in themselves, their dreams and their talents. 2 video cassettes designed for 30-45 minute class periods. Guides.

Hear Their Cries
Religious responses to child abuse - an educational program for clergy, lay leaders, religious educators. 48 minutes. A minimum of four hours is recommended for the study.

The Hurried Family
Practical counsel for restoring calmness and rest to your marriage, family, workplace and to your relationship with God. (Shared purchase with Titusville Church)

Ministering to Suicidal Persons, Their Families and Friends

• Part One: Warning Signs of Suicide.
• Part Two: How to Minister to a Suicidal Person
• Part Three: Questions and Answers about Suicide

Ministering with Persons with AIDS
Clarifies the reality of AIDS, while dispelling the many myths and misconceptions about this disease. 37 minutes, color with discussion guide. Adult.

Parenting: An Attitude of the Heart
A five-part parenting series on improving the emotional climate we provide for our children.

1. Improving Your Attitude
2. How to Love Your Child
3. The Secret to Discipline
4. Why Values Are Important
5. Life as a Missionary: A Son Remembers

Parents with Careers
This practical skills enhancement program recognizes the special needs of working parents, and shows them ways to cope with the complexities of their lives. Each of the six sessions is devoted to a different timely topic:

• Session 1: Finding the Right Child Care
• Session 2: The Marriage Agreement
• Session 3: Guilt and Stress
• Session 4: Career in a Holding Pattern
• Session 5: Is Quitting the Only Answer?
• Session 6: The Interview Crisis: How Much?

Presbyterian Mariners
This video shows how Mariners strengthen church and the family and how the organization provides a vital link between church life and community life. Approximately 12 minutes.

A Question on Intimacy
Keith Miller explores questions as he leads a group of young men and women in a thought provoking discussion of intimate relationships in our society. Leader's guide. Adult/youth.

Sex: A Topic for Conversation
See YOUTH for details.

Stress and the Healthy Family
Dolores Curran shows how healthy families effectively deal with the four major areas of family stress - money, time, children and couple relationships. Color, 50 minutes with study guide.

Too Smart for Strangers With Winnie the Pooh
Teaches children ages 3 to 10 how to deal with strangers. The program is also recommended for parents, teachers, pastors, church school teachers and day care workers. Color, 40 minutes with guide.

Turn Your Heart Toward Home
Dr. James C. Dobson. Six part series that challenges us to return to the traditional values upon which families are best created and nurtured:

1. A Father Looks Back (60 minutes)
2. Power in Parenting - The Young Child (60 minutes)
3. Power in Parenting - The Adolescent (45 minutes)
4. The Family Under Fire (52 minutes)
5. Overcoming a Painful Childhood (40 minutes)
6. The Heritage (60 minutes)

Traits of a Healthy Family
Dolores Curran draws on her experience as an educator and parent, her hopeful message is that parents who know what their strengths are can then learn to build on those strengths. Color, 50 minutes. Adult.

You Can't Say Hello...Until You've Said Goodbye
The theme of the series is that families grow and become strong based on how they handle critical transitions and that each transition provides an opportunity for growth only to the extent that people are willing to let some things go. Growing, then, is an act of faith and an act of trust that in allowing some important things to die, new life may come into being.

1. Family Transitions
2. Love and Intimacy
3. Raising Responsible and Independent Children
4. Living Singly
5. Review and Renew