This Is For You, Moms and Dads!
By Guest Blogger, Jenny Huang
We have tons of single parent families that attend Celebration Church. We know this means that a lot of single dads or single moms are having to juggle kids, meals, schoolwork, soccer practice, jobs, and the home – alone.
We understand the burden of a single parent family and want them to know they are not alone! That’s why we’re excited to kick off a new ministry to reach out to these families beginning this weekend with our first-ever Single Parent Appreciation Day. This church-wide outreach event will be held Saturday, Oct. 25th, 10 am – 2 pm, at the Midtown campus. The day will include free car washes, oil changes, food, and fun activities for the kids.
This event will also launch a new ministry to support single parents through a boys mentorship program. A mini-outing is planned for young boys of single parents during the outreach event and they will be connected with positive male role models.
Single parents and volunteers – sign up to participate or enlist your sons for the mentorship program at www.celebration.org.
Speaking of parent appreciation, our Relationship FAQ series continues this weekend with questions about parenting, teens, and kids. Having trouble with your teenager? Nervous about expecting your first child? Want to know better ways to praise, discipline, and love your children?
Whether you’re a new, soon-to-be, or veteran parent, we want to hear your questions. This one’s for you, moms and dads!
Jenny
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We are a blended family and our oldest continues year after year to try and tear our family apart, We will begin to think that we are past it and then we find out she is stealing things from school, her sisters, and other people. She is also forging my signature to things and constantly lying to us and now her attitude toward me has become even more disrepectful. She, also, has broken our trust repeatedly. We know she is hurting because her mom doesn’t call or come to see her very often. We see how much this hurts her and because her mom isn’t in the picture she wants her dad to leave me and go back to her mom so she can see her more. She is so mad at me for just being here and for being married to her dad. We love her so much and we want to see her living her life sold out to God. We know she loves God but we don’t think she has quite grasped how much God truly loves her and that He is there for her and He wants her to lean on Him. How should we handle this? It truly feels like we are on a merry-go-round with her. We continue year after year to have the same problems with her, we desperately want peace in our house and we want to trust her. What should we do? Thank you!
Wow. this event is an answered prayer. I have been praying for something to help my son. he is 13 and even though he is involved in church, he doesnt have any “good” role models in the christian faith. i look forward to tomorrow and getting him signed up. also just that as single parent, it is a struggle with “everything”. Celebration is AWESOME!
love you guys!
I have read my previous comment re: my neice and helping her with the aftermath of her mother’s (my sister) suicide. And I am feeling guilty that I did not really present my question the way I intended. Please know that I love her dearly and want the absolute best for her. Rereading what I wrote previously, I feel I came across as just wanting her to clean her room. That is not what is weighing heavy in my heart.
My true questions are 1:What is the best role for me, not only as her Aunt, but also to support her Dad in finishing raising her? and 2: Other than getting her plugged in to FUEL (she is a saved Catholic), praying with her and for her, and being there for her, what can I do for her to help her be the young lady God wants her to be? I just want to do and be my absolute best that she needs. I do not have any children and have not had the pleasure of learning to be a parent from birth to toddler, to grade school, to pre-teen, to the beautiful young teenager that she is now. I just want to know how to be the best in this part-time parent role that now find myself in. Thank you for taking the time to tackle these life issues that we face every day, and listening to my heart.
Pastor, thank you for the messages the past few weeks,it has really been eye opening. Now that we have sex covered, I have another issue for you to talk about.
I have been married less than 5 years and am in a blended family situation. I am really struggling with my wife allowing me to take my place as an authority figure and the spiritual head of the house. It seems that my wife consistently puts her kids (that live with us) over me and doesn’t respect my input into their lives.
How can we become united as one flesh if there are kids in the middle and their mother’s loyalty seems to be to them 1st, then me ?
PLEASE HELP !
Pastor,
My sister committed suicide this past May and left behind a 14 year old daughter. She and her Dad live in my apt complex and we are very close. I am now an unofficial part-time parent to her. Although her mother loved her very much, for whatever reasons, did not take the time to teach her the importance and value of cleaning up after herself, as well as not standing firm in disclipline. I do not and will not ever take the place of her mother, but want so badly to help her. We, her dad, her grandmother and I are having trouble getting her to simply clean her room and keep it clean. We have tried taking away all her “collateral”, so to speak. She no longer has her TV, her Ipod, her cell phone, etc. She is really a great young lady, just having trouble in this area. She is seeing someone to help her cope with her mother’s death and she does know the truth. Although she is Catholic, she has been to church with me here and is beginning to get involved with FUEL. I pray for her everyday and want so bad to touch her life to the Glory of God.