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Church for the Fatherless: A Ministry Model for Society's Most Pressing Problem

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, 2012
ISBN: 9780830863365

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Fatherlessness has reached epidemic levels.Forty percent of children in the U.S. will go to bed tonight in a home without a father. Studies show that people without fathers are at much higher risk for low educational performance, drug abuse, crime and poverty.Fatherlessness is rampant in our churches as well. When planting his church, Mark Strong realized that fifteen of twenty core leaders, whether they were in their twenties or sixties, white or black, had grown up without an active father figure in their lives. And he determined to make a difference in the lives of the next generation.The church is uniquely positioned to minister to the fatherless, both within its own community and in society at large. Strong shows how we can make our churches places of refuge for our nation’s fatherless. Churches can reveal a true picture of God as loving Father through mentoring both children and dads, meeting the practical needs of children, and much more. By embedding key values into your congregational culture, your church can become a church for the fatherless.Be part of the solution. Are you ready to make a difference?

Introduction
Part One: Understanding the Problem
1. Father Where Are You?
2. The Impact of Fatherlessness
Part Two: How We Can Help the Fatherless
3. Embedding a Corporate Value
4. Getting the Message Out
5. Equipping Men to Be Fathers
6. Mentoring the Fatherless
7. Praying for the Children
8. God Their Father
9. The Healing Path
10. How Do I Get Started?
Epilogue: A New Story
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"Mark E. Strong boldly identifies the crisis of fatherlessness and provides practical actions the church can take to equip, mentor and respond to the needs of children without a father’s presence in their life."

"Mark Strong is a true father and pastor. Over the years that I have known him, I have always admired his unique mix of strength and gentleness. The passion to protect and restore hurting people that is so evident is his ministry shines clearly through this book. I believe his call to the church to become fathers to the fatherless is as timely as it is powerful."

"Fatherlessness has become an epidemic in America. The church needs to wake up to this crisis. In Church for the Fatherless, pastor-evangelist Mark Strong provides a how-to manual to help mobilize churches to stop the epidemic and mentor those devastated by this critical issue. . . . Mark shows how the faith-based community, working together, can provide hope to the fatherless."

Product Details

  • Title : Church for the Fatherless: A Ministry Model for Society's Most Pressing Problem
  • Author: Strong, Mark E.
  • Publisher: IVP Books
  • Publication Date: 2012
  • ISBN: 9780830863365

Mark E. Strong (DMin, George Fox Seminary) is senior pastor of LifeChange Christian Church, a diverse congregation located in the heart of inner-city Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Church for the Fatherless and he serves on the Board of Regents at George Fox Seminary. He and his wife Marla have four children.

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