A few of the greatest resources I have found for building strong families are as follow.
- Egermeier’s Bible Story Book—a great, scripturally accurate daily Bible reading. We have used this for three years now for ages 8 to 18.
- Heritage Builders Family Fun Night Tool Chest—Family nights. This turned mundane family devotions to nights the kids would scream for.
- Your Child and Money: A Family Activity Book—Larry Burkett
- God’s Design for Sex Series—four booklets for ages 3–5, 5–8, 8–11, and 11–14
- The ABC’s of Handling Money God’s Way—Crown Ministries
- The Giving Bank—Larry Burkett
- Let’s Make a Memory—Gloria Gather and Shirley Dobson
- The Summit Ministries Guide to Choosing a College
- College Countdown—VanGruben
- The All in One College Guide—Barron’s
- How to Survive Getting into College
- Smart Parents Guide to College
- College Match—Antonoff
- Along the Road to Manhood—Weber
- Shepherding a Child’s Heart
- I Kissed Dating Goodbye—Harris
- Truth & Grace Memory Books
- A Puritan Catechism with Proofs—Charles Spurgeon
Here are some great illustrated read-alouds for ages 5–15:
- Lamplighter Books/Materials—Beggars Blessing, Hedge of Thorns, Teddy’s Button
- The True Princess—Hunt
- You are Mine—Max Lucado
- Illustrated holiday books by Liz Curtis Higgs
- The Giving Tree—Silverstein
- The Tale of Three Trees—Hunt/Jonke
- Beautiful Feet books—historical figures—Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
- Famous Artists—Jen Green, Antony Mason, multiple Barron’s titles
- G.A. Henty books—Vision Forum
- A Hive of Busy Bees: Stories that Build Character—Don and Joyce Discover
- Janette Okes’s Spunky books
- Sonlight novels and readers
- Vision Forum materials
- One Home at a Time—Dennis Rainey- Its resource list (pp. 263–67 is worth the price of the book!)
Family-oriented ministry resources:
- Vision Forum
- Tim Lambert
- Family Life/Heritage Builders—Dennis Rainey
- Focus on the Family
- American Family Association
- NAUMS
- Summit Ministries
- Lamplighter
Many tools to help you are available in A Lasting Legacy. |
