FAMILY RESOURCES
Advent
Source
Family Ministries Leadership Resources
NAD
Family Ministries
The
mission of NAD Family Ministries is to develop resources, coordinate
and promote training events, and provide networking opportunities
for those who work on behalf of families within their division.
Adventist
Plusline
PlusLine
is committed to providing live ministry support to active Seventh-day
Adventist church members, pastors and church leaders throughout
the North American Division. As the official helpdesk for general
church and ministry information, PlusLine's duties include the
collection and transmission of information related to functions
that are nurture and outreach related.
Adventist Professionals'
Network
An electronic global registry of Adventists who hold the minimum
of a master's degree or its equivalent (5 years of post-secondary
studies) in any field. APN assists participating institutions
and agencies in locating consultants with expertise, volunteers
for short mission assignments, and candidates for position in
teaching, administration, and research. Enter your professional
information directly in the APN web site: http://apn.adventist.org.
Center for the Prevention of
Sexual and Domestic Violence
The Center is an interreligious educational resource addressing
issues of sexual and domestic violence. Their goal is to engage
religious leaders on the task of ending abuse, their emphasis
is on education and prevention.
The Dougy Center - The National
Center for Grieving Children and Families
The mission of The Dougy Center is to provide to families loving
support in a safe place where children, teens, and their families
who are grieving a death can share their experience as they move
through their healing process. Through our National Center for
Grieving Children and Families, we also provide support and training
locally, nationally and internationally to individuals and organizations
seeking to assist children and teens in grief.
Family.com
An online magazine with great resources, activities, crafts,
cooking tips, recipes, etc.
KidsPeace: The National
Center for Kids Overcoming Crisis
KidsPeace gives kids and their families peace through the nation's
most comprehensive range of mental and behavioral health treatment
programs, crisis intervention services and public education initiatives.
KidsPeace, a private, not-for-profit organization, helps families
help kids anticipate and avoid crisis whenever possible.
KidsPeace: Intensive Treatment
Family
A temporary foster care program for children from families in
crisis.
The National Marriage
Project
The mission of the National Marriage Project is to strengthen
the institution of marriage by providing research and analysis
that informs public policy, educates the American public, and
focuses attention on a problem of enormous scope and consequence.
The Religion,
Culture, and Family Project
The Religion, Culture, and Family Project seeks to address the
contemporary situation of American families from a range of theological,
historical, legal, biblical, and cultural perspectives.
Smart Marriages
The Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education
parentsoup.com
Parentsoup.com is a site with parenting news, articles, resources,
parenting bulletin board, parent poll . . .
goshen.net
A good source for Christian family/individual resources available
on the Internet. Links to other websites are categorized by themes.
Institute for Prevention
of Addictions
The Institute for Prevention of Addictions, established in1984
as the Institute of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency, is housed
at Andrews University. The purpose of the Institute is to combat
various forms of addiction.
Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family has become an international organization with
more than 74 different ministries. They produce broadcasts, magazines
sent to more than 2.3 million people a month, award-winning books,
films and videos. Focus also offers professional counseling and
referrals to a network of therapists, and addresses public policy
and cultural issues.
Prevention and Relationship
Enhancement Program
PREP is one of the most comprehensive and well respected programs
for couples in the world. It is a research-based, skills building
curriculum designed to help partners get to the heart of problems
and connect with each other instead of pushing each other away.
PREP emphasizes strategies geared toward lowering risk factors
and strategies for raising protective factors to help marriages
succeed. It is designed for premarital or marital couples.
The National Marriage Encounter
The mission of National Marriage Encounter is to promote and
encourage marriage and family life by offering Marriage Encounter
weekends and a support community. National Marriage Encounter
enables people to discover God's vision of marriage and family
life and spiritual diversity.
ADVENTISTS
WORLDWIDE
General Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists
The official website of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Euro-Africa Division
• Department
of Family
Ministries
• Colegio Adventista
de Sagunto (Spain)
• U.I.C.A.S.D.E.
- Unión de Iglesias Cristianas Adventistas del Séptimo
Día de España
Inter-American Division
• CV
Ministerio - a spanish ministry supporting the SDA
Church from the Dominican Republic.
• Iglesia
Adventista del 7o. Día, Central de la Cd. de México
• Iglesia
Adventista Libertad (República Dominicana)
North American Division
• NAD Children's Ministry
• Hawaii Conference
• Iowa-Missouri Conference
• Oregon Conference
• Texas Conference
Northern Asia-Pacific Division
South American Division
• União
Central Brasileira
• CADSites - Brazilian
Central Union
South Pacific Division
• Department
of Family Ministries
Southern Asia-Pacific Division
Trans-European Division
PUBLISHERS
Review and Herald
Publishing Association
Review and Herald Publishing Association develops, produces, and
distributes books, periodicals, electronic media, and other products
that will introduce people to Jesus and affirm the Seventh-day
Adventist faith.
Pacific
Press Publishing Assication
Pacific Press publishes books and periodicals with Christian themes.
They produce a full line of materials for children and adults,
including many books dealing with biblical and inspirational topics.
Books for Christian women are one of their specialties. Another
is publishing books and magazines in foreign languages, including
Spanish, French, Afrikaans, and even Samoan.
adventistbookcenter.com
An online bookstore representing the large chain of ABC Stores.
For the first time, online customers can place a secure order
and benefit from direct shipment from the nearest participating
ABC distribution center, saving time and shipping costs.
