{"id":756,"date":"2018-02-07T18:36:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2018\/02\/07\/encourage-the-families-in-your-church\/"},"modified":"2021-12-10T20:38:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:38:33","slug":"encourage-the-families-in-your-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/encourage-the-families-in-your-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Encourage the families in your church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;7 February 2018 | St Albans [Karen Holford]&nbsp;&nbsp; Next week, 10-17 February, is Christian Home and Family Week. This annual event in the Church calendar allows churches to focus specifically on the vital needs of families. Every marriage and every family can use encouragement, inspiration and ideas. Sermons and seminars on family life can equally help provide families with some of the spiritual and practical resources they need.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-coloured-gift-habeshaw-514909-1500.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-751\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-coloured-gift-habeshaw-514909-1500.jpg\" alt=\"family coloured gift habeshaw 514909 1500\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" title=\"Photo credit: Gift Habeshaw by unsplash\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-coloured-gift-habeshaw-514909-1500.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-coloured-gift-habeshaw-514909-1500-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-coloured-gift-habeshaw-514909-1500-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-coloured-gift-habeshaw-514909-1500-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-coloured-gift-habeshaw-514909-1500-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-coloured-gift-habeshaw-514909-1500-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-coloured-gift-habeshaw-514909-1500-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-coloured-gift-habeshaw-514909-1500-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-coloured-gift-habeshaw-514909-1500-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Each year the General Conference Family Ministries Department creates a book of resources for local churches to use for the different family-focussed dates in the Church year. This includes sermons, children\u2019s stories, seminars and other resources.<\/p>\n<p>Should it be too late for you to use them next week, just use them whenever you can. Why not check out the book and a variety of other resources on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2016\/07\/08\/resources\/\">TED family ministries resource pages<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-jelleke-vanooteghem-336956-1500.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-753\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-jelleke-vanooteghem-336956-1500.jpg\" alt=\"family jelleke vanooteghem 336956 1500\" width=\"250\" height=\"164\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" title=\"Photo credit: Jelleke Vanooteghem by unsplash\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-jelleke-vanooteghem-336956-1500.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-jelleke-vanooteghem-336956-1500-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-jelleke-vanooteghem-336956-1500-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-jelleke-vanooteghem-336956-1500-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-jelleke-vanooteghem-336956-1500-350x230.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-jelleke-vanooteghem-336956-1500-700x460.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-jelleke-vanooteghem-336956-1500-900x591.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-jelleke-vanooteghem-336956-1500-1100x722.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images_news-2018_family-jelleke-vanooteghem-336956-1500-560x368.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>There are free marriage and family seminar materials, including special ones for pastoral families, created by the NAD, that include video clips and discussion guides, as well as useful links family worship ideas and a whole lot more. [tedNEWS]<br \/>________________________________________<br \/>tedNEWS Staff: Victor Hulbert, editor; Sajitha Forde-Ralph, associate editor<br \/>119 St Peter&#8217;s Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3EY, England<br \/>E-mail: tednews@ted.adventist.org<br \/>Website: www.ted.adventist.org<br \/>tedNEWS is an information bulletin issued by the communication department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;7 February 2018 | St Albans [Karen Holford]&nbsp;&nbsp; Next week, 10-17 February, is Christian Home and Family Week. This annual event in the Church calendar allows churches to focus specifically on the vital needs of families. Every marriage and every family can use encouragement, inspiration and ideas. 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