What does a thriving family look like? Certainly, there are many answers to this question, but we believe at the heart of a thriving family is a healthy marriage and effective parenting. It is an encouraging home environment where children are flourishing with everyone feeling emotionally and spiritually fulfilled in each other’s company.

This holiday season, we’ve shared many wonderful success stories from parents that received equipping and encouragement from OneFamily; stories from a single mom in North Carolina to a young pastor’s family in Los Angeles.  And last week, shared how the Pulidos not only helped their own family, but helped us take our Spanish programing, UnaFamilia, to the next level.  All these parents and their stories have one meaningful intention in common – the desire for a thriving family!

This week, the Tidwells share yet another story of success and how OneFamily has helped them to create the honoring and thriving family they desire.

 

We started taking classes with OneFamily when our firstborn was 2 weeks old, and this ministry has been the biggest blessing to our family. As parents, we each come from different families and different parenting experiences, and the classes with OneFamily have really helped us to be on the same page in our parenting. We have been given the tools to handle just about any situation that comes at us with our kids.

 

We wanted to share an example of the way we’ve seen the success of what we learned in the classes this past year during Covid. We were home a lot more and it really opened the door for us to be more diligent and consistent in our evening couch time routine. We were doing couch time 4-5 nights a week, to the point that our 3.5 year old now asks to do couch time on nights that we might have to miss. We were just out of town for 2 weeks over Thanksgiving and did not do any couch time during our trip. After about a week of no couch time, we noticed an obvious difference in the behavior of our 3.5 year old- pushing the boundaries, more defiant, getting out of bed in the middle of the night, etc. As we have returned home from our vacation, we started back in our routine and being consistent with couch time, and have seen a shift in behavior- our daughter staying in bed and displaying first time obedience more consistently. 

 

We love this ministry and the impact that it continues to have on our family. We tell all our family and friends about the classes, weekly letters & daily quotes and the blessing that it has been to us and our children! We find so much peace in knowing that we have been given incredible, successful tools to help our children reflect Jesus to the world.

 

A Special Opportunity To Help Families

As 2021 comes to a close, would you consider helping OneFamily to Equip, Encourage and Sustain families like the Tidwells and the other families that graciously shared their stories this holiday season?  Your year-end 2021 donation to OneFamily, will allow us to reach more moms and dads with new content & materials for classes, workshops and one-on-one coaching/mentoring, to help families like yours, build strong, healthy families & marriages – locally and around the globe in 2022!

Our goal is to raise $30,000 by the end of the year and we have several ways for you to increase the impact of your generous donation to OneFamily!

OneFamily is blessed to have a special donor who is matching one time and recurring gifts! This is a unique opportunity to double the impact of your gift.

Donate Here on the OneFamily Website

https://onefamilyhwl.org/donate-to-onefamily/

or

VENMO “2021 Nonprofit Donation” to: @onefamilyhwl

If you wish to learn more about OneFamily and ALL of our 2022 goals/initiatives or how you can directly participate in our 501c3 Nonprofit Organization, please contact Shelly Howard at shelly@onefamilyhwl.org

Thank you for your support & encouragement!

Blessings to your family this Holiday Season and for a thriving 2022!

OneFamily

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Upcoming 2022 Classes & Coaching/Mentoring

Looking to recharge your marriage or build up that parenting toolbox in 2022? Registration is now open for new classes and services to help you begin the New Year with Purpose, Passion and Action!

https://onefamilyhwl.org/events/