Motivate your parents to engage in Spiritual Formation at Home
by hosting a Heritage Builders "Catalytic" event
"What greater legacy can we leave than to do everything we can to
ensure that our children love the Lord and profess a faith in Jesus
Christ - that's at the top of the list! As I have said many times, I
believe this teaching task is the most important assignment God has
given to us as parents. And that's why this ministry, Heritage
Builders, was created.
The task of raising children who love God and follow Him in obedience
is a difficult assignment - especially today. Our kids live and breathe
in a culture permeated by the toxins of death and moral decay. Our
sons and daughters face an enemy who wants to consume them and
wound them before they ever get started in life. So, now more than
ever we need to take seriously our biblical mandate to instill a
life-giving and life-affirming faith within our children."
Heritage Builders "Catalytic" Events
- Dr. James Dobson, Founder of Focus on the Family-
Parent Seminars
Heritage Builders, as a conference and content based ministry,
enables churches to: educate, equip and encourage parents to pass
their faith to the next generation. We believe that the primary
responsibility to pass the faith to our children lays with parents not
the church. Through an integrated home-centered, church-supported
strategy (see White Paper on Family Ministry), Heritage Builders offers
church based, multi-media, teaching seminars. The goal is to motivate
and equip parents with the tools and resources to support a Biblically
based plan on "How to" pass their faith to their children at home, in
accordance with Deuteronomy 6:4-9. (Click Here for the Parent's
Conference Agenda on Spiritual Formation at Home)
Our objective is to work with your individual church or your community
of churches to help family ministries be more effective in addressing the
spiritual training needs of its members by engaging parents in spiritual
formation at home. .
Please feel free to contact us at 1-888-31-Family or E-mail us to
discuss how we can partner with your team or community.
"I can't think of a more important task for parents than passing their
Christian faith to their children. Heritage Builders gives parents
easy-to-use plans and ideas to help them pass their faith; this couldn't
come at a better time for our children and culture."
- Gary Smalley, Author, Speaker and Founder -
Smalley Relationship Center-
Author Seminars
The contributing authors to the Heritage Builders ministry are also
available to speak at church events: Topical seminars, Sunday
Services, Men's retreat... as required to help churches meet their
objectives of teaching Spiritual Leadership and Spiritual Formation
at home. Authors include:
Jim Weidmann is the Voice of the Family Night Guy
and comes from an extensive background in Family
and Men’s Ministry. His heart and passion is the
spiritual leadership of men in the home. He has
co-authored 17 books on various aspects of spiritual
leadership and parenting and he has been a featured
guest on Focus on the Family, Family Life and
Promise Keepers. (Click here for Speaker’s Bio)
session is presented 8-10 weeks prior to the "catalytic" family
spiritual formation conference in a city wide approach or can be
incorporated into a Friday session for a single church prior to an
individual church seminar. It is designed to educate and equip church
leaders with the understanding and tools needed to accelerate or
help launch their family ministry efforts - successfully engaging
parents in the spiritual formation process of their children at home.
These seminars present cutting edge thinking from family ministry
practioners and the home-centered spiritual formation movement.
(Click Here for the Pastor's Seminar Agenda)
Otis Ledbetter: J. Otis Ledbetter is pastor of Sonrise
Church in Clovis, California and chairman of the board
of Heritage Builders Association, a cooperative
network of families and churches committed to
passing a solid heritage to the next generation. His
books include Your Heritage, Family Fragrance, Family
Traditions, Extending Your Heritage, and Spiritual
Milestones for Your Children. He and his wife, Gail,
have three grown children.
(Click here for full Speaker’s Bio)
Kurt & Olivia Burner: are in the midst of what they
call the minivan years, celebrating the hectic joys of
parenthood. They are also the creative force behind
a variety of practical resources for families including
the Just Add Family kit and their recent book s The
Minivan Years and How To Mess-Up Your Child’s Life.
Kurt and Olivia love to motivate and equip parents to
become intentional about passing a strong spiritual
heritage to their children.
(Click here for full Speaker’s Bio)
Sherman Smith: Sherman is a former Registered
Principal on the New York Stock Exchange and
Bestselling Author - He is a recognized Authority on
Biblical Stewardship -Sherman is passionate about
fixing the dysfunctional financial problems in the
home and church.
(Click here for Sherman's Bio)
Pastor Seminars
Heritage Builders provides a Pastor's seminar alongside our parent
seminars. . Heritage Builders offers a city's churches -Sr.
Pastor/Men's Ministry and Family Ministry Leaders - training on the
elements of an "Effective Family Ministry." This morning training