We start at 7:00 pm but our church eats dinner together every Wednesday beginning at 5:30. And it's great for single moms because dinner is free for them! And there are classes for kids of ALL ages for the whole time we're are in group! Our motto is: Come learn, lean and laugh with us!
The number at the church is 972-221-3561.  www.gardenridge.org

Thanks Frank! Dr. Dana McCall (with Rapha Christian Counseling)
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Several folks told me to contact you about what we have for single parent ministry. I guess Frank Reed had asked for that. I am the pastor to our single parents. We have a "One Parent plus Kids" 10 week program that gives kids and parents healing from divorce or an absent parent. We do it twice a year. We have a once a month "Kids Night Out" where we have the kids for 3 hours while our sinlge parents get some much needed time away. During this we have a spiritual message and always lots of fun. This months event is IBC Idol night. The kids will be puttin on different acts, dancing, joke telling, karaoke and a lot more. Last month it was retro dance night. We have a Car Ministry where we give away 30 or so cars a year as well as having repair events each month. Our On Track Bible Community class meets on Sundays. The current series is Parenting Credo- what your kids need from you. In evertying we do, we pull in people from the community who may not ever enter a church, but they need help for their family. This is kingdom work. Our Community Carnival in May is a big monster event for the single parents out in our community.  www.irvingbible.org

Bob Robinson,
Pastor to single parent families Irving Bible Church
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Hi Frank,

My wife, Pam, and I attend Sunnyvale First Baptist Church. We have been working with Single Parents for approximately 3 years and have been truly blessed by them during that time. The Single Parent community is one that is generally pushed off to the side and forgotten about by the traditional church because “they aren’t Single and they aren’t Married so we don’t know where to put them”. They don’t fit into the Singles Group because they have children and they don’t fit into the Married groups because they don’t have a mate. I have actually had a pastor tell me “we just don’t feel comfortable going in that direction and ministering to those people”. I thank God daily that Sunnyvale First Baptist Church is not one of those churches. According to the US Census Bureau, 16.9% of the 12.7 million Single Parent Families in the US live in Texas. That is approximately 2.1 million Single Parent Families. According to the United Way of Dallas, 1 in 4 of those 2.1 million Single Parent Families live in the Dallas/Ft Worth metroplex. That equates to over 536,000 Single Parent Families living in the Dallas/Ft Worth metroplex. With the steady increase of the Single Parent Family unit not only in the Dallas/Ft Worth area but nationwide, the specific need for a ministry for Single Parent Families is tremendous. After attending the SPFM Conference in Granbury, we felt God leading us to host an event like that with the focus being how to help the Single Parent raise their child in a godly manner or – “TRAINING MY CHILD IN THE WAY THEY SHOULD GO”. The bible tells us to “train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not turn from it (Proverbs 22:6)”. We believe the Single Parent Families in Dallas County need help with this – from the basics on up. We have chosen an outstanding Keynote Speaker from the Dallas/Ft Worth metroplex that (1) has a heart for Single Parent Families, (2) is a Single Parent and knows first hand the specific situations that Single parents go through, (3) desires to help pull together the Single Parent Family community and show them that they are not alone and (4) is not PREACHY. We want this to be a Christian event, but not a revival. We believe that we must meet the "immediate" needs before they will be open to getting their "spiritual" needs met. We also know that Single Parents have Single Incomes so this event will be as inexpensive as possible - $20 for parent, $15 for Teen, $10 for child or THE BEST VALUE OF $30 for family. Childcare will be provided for a pre-registered $10 deposit per child, with a full refund after the parent picks up their child after the conference. Pre-registration ends March 4th, 2007. Please know that money will be made available for those in need. We do not want someone missing a valuable opportunity just because they cannot afford this, or think they cannot. As I said before, Thanks for your time and you ministry. We have been touched numerous times by your heart for the Single Parent Family community. You are truly a blessing for the Dallas/Ft Worth metroplex. If you want to pass this around, we would truly appreciate as much input as possible. Specifically we are asking for prayer. This event can only be successful if God is placed in the center of it. We ask that you pray that God will produce a mighty fruit from this event, even if it is just in one life. Above all else, we need your prayers to ensure that this event is God honored. The Single Parent families in the metroplex need an event like this. Thank you for your help and keep doing what you’re doing. Please visit us at www.sunnyvalefbc.com

Tom & Pam McLaughlin, Single Parent Family Leaders
Sunnyvale First Baptist Church