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How Family Volunteering Works

Family.ChristianVolunteering.org helps connect you with local family volunteer opportunities and family missions trips that are fun and appropriate for all ages.

1. Search for Christian Family Volunteer Opportunities.
2. Register to get a free account for your family.
3. Click "I want to volunteer" to be matched with the organization by E-mail.
4. The organization will get back to you with the next steps for your family volunteering experience.
5. Protect your family by researching and checking references on the organizations you consider, especially for family missions trips.

Christian Family Volunteer Training

Family Volunteering Resources

Videos

• Raising Charitable Children (Mom Matters)
• Family Mission Project Devotional
• Service Learning Opportunities (Better TV)

Books

• The Giving Family
• Raising Kids Who Will Make a Difference
• What Kids Really Want that Money Can't Buy

Links

• SixSeeds.org
• Doing Good Together: Raising Caring Kids
• Kids & Volunteering: Getting Started

Family Volunteering Articles

SixSeeds.org: Why families aren't offering their most valuable resource

Painting projects, bake sales, and stuffing envelopes are helpful. But are activities like those always the most valuable form of service that a family can offer?

Take the father who happens to be a Silicon Valley computer engineer. He wants to serve. But are the most common volunteer opportunities the best outlet for that motivation? Is there some way to leverage his considerable professional skills?

SixSeeds.org: Parents Discussion: Our role in cultivating virtue

There is no one magic formula. But what are the different roles we parents can play to bring out the best in our kids?

The SixSeeds Parents Study group is comprised of a group of thoughtful Bay Area parents. They convene regularly to read and reflect about raising children who enjoy material prosperity.

SixSeeds.org: Dora the Explorer doesn't...

The world is a harder place than what is shown by most kid TV shows. How do parents help their kids engage with suffering in ways appropriate for their ages?

Your seven year old peeks over your shoulder while you're watching the 6 'clock news and asks, "Why does that TV guy keep talking about Dar-fur? What is that?" Or, she points to the latest mailing on your desk from a relief agency with a picture of a starving child, "Momma, why is that kid so thin?"