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A military service member in uniform embraces her family, who are all gathered tightly around her, representing the emotional reunion after a deployment.

Things To Know Before and After Military Deployment

When deployment is over, ease your transition as you renegotiate leading and submitting with both spouses in the home.

A married couple works together in the kitchen, preparing food as part of their shared act of serving others.

Serving Others With Your Spouse Can Improve Your Marriage

Helping others as a couple can improve communication and create intimacy in your marriage.

A woman types on her smartphone in a bright kitchen, illustrating how to comfort someone over text with a calm and thoughtful expression.

How to Comfort Someone Over Text

With a simple text, you can comfort someone and pass along powerful encouragement, just as the apostle Paul did in his letters.

A woman holds a cupcake with a lit candle while video chatting with her husband, symbolizing the challenges and intimacy of a long-distance marriage.

15 Ways To Make a Long-Distance Marriage Thrive

When my husband deployed, my world fell apart. But God pieced me — and us — back together, stronger than ever.

little boy feeding his dog

How To Show Real Love to Others by Being a Contributor

The world regularly teaches us ways to consume in our relationships rather than contributing to them. How, then, can we teach our kids to become contributors rather than consumers?

How to Serve Others this Christmas

Help your kids get more out of Christmas.

Grandfather and grandson. Building deep connection with grandparents playing together.

Building a Deeper Connection Between Kids and Their Grandparents

How my family fostered a deeper connection between our kids and their grandparents

Teaching empathy to your children by teaching them to serve others. This is a little boy comforting his sister.

Teaching Empathy: The Power of Service in Your Family

Parents can create opportunities for their kids to serve and teach them to be aware of the people around them.

Close up of two women, one offering the other a compassionate arm around her shoulders

How to Come Alongside Parents Before Foster Care

What if we became those people who committed to come alongside socially isolated parents?

Mother and daugher painting a wall together

Serving as a Family

Serving others teaches kids to think beyond themselves and their own needs.

Grandparents read book with granddaughter

Helping to Care for Grandkids?

Participating in caring for grandkids is a gift and a privilege. With careful planning, it represents an unprecedented opportunity to make a lasting, positive impression in their lives.

A disabled man in a wheel chair starting to go up a handicap ramp

Disability Ministry and the Local Church

Thinking biblically about disability and ourselves.

Middle-age couple standing together outside. He’s affectionately holding a rose up to her face.

Saying ‘I Love You’ With Random Acts of Kindness

Complacency and routine can push out the small, but important, acts of kindness in a marriage. But it’s not too late. You can start showing kindness to your husband or wife today.

Too Busy to Help?

Teaching kids to show compassion doesn’t have to be complicated.

Close up of a child's hands holding a small, wrapped present

Serving Others at Christmas

These are some ideas for what children can give to others.

Crayones

Melted Crayons & Half-Marathons

Four families use their creativity and passions to serve others around the world.

Love as a Lifestyle

One family opened their home to needy people in their community.

rainbow, fence, home, city

Becoming a Mission-Minded Family

Missional living, with God at the center, creates fulfilled families.

African-American couple holding their young child

Building Houses, Building Families

Young readers helped realize God’s plan for Rwandan orphans.

Young, smiling woman working as a volunteer in a food line and being handed canned goods

What You Can Do to Help Refugees?

Giving money to relief organizations is important, but why not consider giving your time, talents and energy to help refugees struggling to make a fresh start in a new country?