Issue Group 7: Non-Traditional Families PDF Print E-mail

The wisdom needed to share the gospel within diverse family structures: single parent families, separated/divorced people, cohabitating couples and those whose family situation has changed.

The expected outcomes of the work done on this issue are:

  1. Provide guidelines as to how to minister to those from non-traditional families who feel marginalised by the church.
  2. Consider the response of local congregations and individual Christians to those hurting from marital readjustment and how the church can minister with compassion to those in their midst who are in personal pain and so reach them with the gospel.
 
Leadership

Convener:
Joan King,
UK
Family Ministry Consultant, Connexions

Co-convener:
Tuvya Zaretsky,
USA
Lausanne Advisor on Jewish Evangelism

Facilitator:
Angus Huard,
Australia
Children/Youth Worker, St. Saviours Anglican Church

Read the Lausanne Occasional Paper (LOP) produced by this Issue Group:
LOP 36: Non Traditional Families: Reaching families with the Good News (.pdf format; 402 KB)