Ministries & Shows
Since Focus on the Family opened in 1977, our outreach has grown to include a wide variety of broadcasts, podcasts, telecasts, films, websites, blogs and radio drama programs. These outlets feature information, guidance and practical insights on everything from adoption to marriage to media discernment to pastoral concerns. Learn more about ministries below.
Hope Restored: A Marriage Intensive Experience
Focus on the Family’s Hope Restored intensives offer marriage counseling for couples who are facing a crisis in their marriage, and who may even feel they are headed for divorce. Hope Restored Intensives are all-inclusive, extended periods of counseling over multiple days that allow our team of marriage counselors to get to the root of the problem.
Plugged In
Plugged In provides movie, DVD, television, music, book and video game reviews that are designed to help equip parents, youth leaders, ministers and teens with essential tools that will enable them to navigate our media-driven culture.
Adventures in Odyssey
Created for ages 8-12 but always enjoyed by the whole family, Adventures in Odyssey is an award-winning audio drama series that presents exciting and entertaining stories that not only ignite the imagination, but bring moral and Biblical principles to life. Set in the small town of Odyssey and featuring a cast of fun, memorable characters, these intriguing stories are full of comedy, suspense, mystery, romance, and much more. Listen in and find out why countless families around the world have become huge fans of Adventures in Odyssey!
Adventures in Odyssey Club
The Adventures in Odyssey Club is an online membership that allows you to become fully immersed in the world of Adventures in Odyssey. You get access to all 1,000+ episodes of Adventures in Odyssey, a subscription to Clubhouse Magazine (U.S. residents only) and exclusive content that is available only to Club members. There is even a mobile app for iOS and Android so that you can access the Club on the go!
Daily Citizen
Focus on the Family’s The Daily Citizen provides a faith-based perspective to counter the mainstream media’s anti-Christian bias. Paul Batura, who serves as Vice President of Communications at Focus on the Family, says the mission of his team of reporters at The Daily Citizen is straightforward: “We want to help Christians analyze the news and current cultural issues through the principles of truth, moral objectivity and inherent, innate natural rights.”
Wait No More
At Focus on the Family, we believe every child deserves to know the love of a family. Through our Wait No More events, we’re raising awareness of and recruiting foster, adoptive, and support families for children and youth in foster care. Recognizing the challenges foster and adoptive families can face, we also provide best-in-class post-placement resources for these families. And while not every family is called to foster or adopt, as Christians, we’re all called to care for children in need.
Clubhouse & Clubhouse Jr.
A fun website for kids that reinforces traditional values and promotes family closeness with hands-on activities, challenging puzzles and exciting stories. Also the home for Clubhouse and Clubhouse, Jr., Focus on the Family’s magazines for children.
Live it Challenge
Live it Challenges provides guides and activities that will help you and your family grow in your faith while building lasting biblical habits. We’ll be providing you with monthly challenges — specific, tangible actions you can take to live out your faith and strengthen your relationship with Jesus Christ.
Bring Your Bible Day
Bring Your Bible Day is a nationwide movement to read and treasure Scripture as God’s Holy Word, to encourage others with the hope we have in Christ Jesus, and to celebrate our religious freedoms in the United States. This event empowers Christians of all ages to speak God’s grace and truth into the culture around them. starting with two simple steps bringing their Bibles and sharing what God’s Word means to them.
Focus on the Family Radio Theatre
Radio Theatre takes advantage of award-winning voice actors, orchestral musical scores, motion-picture quality sound design, and riveting scripts to unveil finished products that have earned such coveted awards as the George Foster Peabody, the Audie Award, and the Parent’s Choice Award – to name just a few. To date, a number of classic books have been adapted into audio dramas, including Les Misérables, C.S. Lewis’ beloved Chronicles of Narnia series, The Secret Garden, Little Women and more.
That the World May Know
That the World May Know is a video series filmed in Israel and the Middle East and featuring renowned teacher and historian Ray Vander Laan who leads viewers to places where events from the Bible actually took place. Through his inspirational teaching, Mr. Vander Laan illuminates the historical, geographical and cultural context of Scripture, revealing keen insights into how people in biblical times understood God.
The Truth Project
The Truth Project is a DVD-based small group curriculum comprised of 12 one-hour lessons taught by Dr. Del Tackett. This home study is the starting point for looking at life from a biblical perspective. Each lesson discusses in great detail the relevance and importance of living the Christian worldview in daily life.
The Focused Pastor
Being a pastor is rewarding but it’s also hard. The challenges of ministry are inescapable both personally and professionally. The Focused Pastor exists to come alongside pastors, their families, and the church with free resources to encourage and equip them personally and to do their ministry more effectively.
Enfoque a la Familia
Besides our English-speaking constituency, Focus on the Family provides articles and resources for Hispanic and Spanish-speaking families.
Focus on the Family Global
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