Building Your Blended Family - Ministry Pack

Ron L. Deal, director of FamilyLife Blended and one of the nation's leading experts on Christian stepfamilies, gives couples keys to building a healthy stepfamily. The eight sessions--ideal for small groups or seminars--offer useable solutions for everyday living, practical tips for raising stepkids, and ways to strengthen the couple's marriage. Deal's personable presentation combines instruction and encouragement that affirms both husbands and wives and their intent to build strong families. The video presentation supports Deal's popular book The Smart Stepfamily. Along with the DVDs, a Participant Guide is available here.

Remarried couples and stepfamilies comprise approximately one-third of American homes, yet rarely do churches have a specific ministry for these families. Traditional marriage and family educational resources prove inadequate to help prevent divorce and strengthen stepfamily homes. But ministry specifically designed for stepfamilies is helping couples beat the odds and break the cycle of divorce while helping churches become relevant to this growing population of families in their community.

Designed for ministry leaders this video event addresses:

• How God uses family life to disciple us
• The prevalence of stepfamilies in society and church communities
• How the cycle of marriage, divorce, & re-divorce fuels a post-modern world-view
• How to overcome barriers to stepfamily ministry
• Why your current marriage ministry is inadequate for stepfamilies
• Practical ministry recommendations
• Effective pre-stepfamily counseling
• What stepfamilies can teach the church about being the church

Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.

The Smart Stepfamily (DVD)

Ministering to Stepfamilies (DVD)