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Open House Event Guide: a Kids & Youth Ministry Resource to Help You Partner with Parents and Minister to Families The Grow Strategy provides seven tactics to help you invest well in the parents and families in your family ministry: events, meetings, discussion groups, one-on-ones, communication, tools, and celebration. This resource gives you an annual strategy for one of your Family Events. An event is an in-person experience that helps connect parents or caregivers with their kid, with your church, or with both! The Grow Strategy recommends scheduling events for families at a few key points throughout the school year. A ministry Open House is an event for parents and their kids that takes place just before the beginning of every school year. While your main audience for this event will be the families of new kids or teenagers in your ministry, we recommend keeping it open to families who may have been lingering on the fringes of your ministry, but are now interested in learning more. This event can also be combined with a ministry Move -Up Day , if that's part of your annual ministry rhythm! If you're building your own customized Grow Strategy Calendar, we recommend putting this event on your calendar in the first month of your school year. Since we all know it's a challenge to get families to show up for our ministry events, there's only one of these events every year. (But make it easy for parents to catch up on what they missed, just in case they can't make it.)

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