Helping Families Through the Church Author:Oscar E. Feucht Helping families was five years in the making. Several hundred church leaders shared there experiences in ten Family Life Workshops to give us this book. — Here is the best thought of the denominational leader, the famly life teacher, the specialist, and Mr. and Mrs. Average Parent. It deals with normal families having normal problems. A compre... more »hensive, altogether constructive program of prevention rather than cure is outlined for the local church. American homes will be made spiritually stronger through this book.
In the 27 chapters and an exceptionally helpful appendix, all who work in the church-from the pastor to the nursery teacher, from the church elder to the youth leader-will find a fresh and effective approach to working with people as God made them, in families.
Written with the local church always in focus, the ideas, plans, and projects are so concrete that one homemaker exclaimed, "This hits you between the eyes with its downright practicality."
Yet, it is also more than a practical program. It supplies a basic philosophy for introducing "the new life in christ" into every family, making and keeping it distinctively Christian.
In the face of the American family's needs, here is a "must" book for every Christian congregation that is aware of its mission in this century.« less