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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