Will and Suzy Brown, who have served families overseas for many years, are well aware of how the stress of living and serving cross-culturally can take a toll on family relationships. So when they were invited to lead the marriage and parenting portion of a debriefing seminar for Asian workers, they responded with enthusiasm, as […]

By Tony Wee Last summer my wife and I, along with our three kids, traveled to a country in Southeast Asia where missionary activity is restricted. We were there in partnership with Unto®, Cru’s humanitarian ministry, with a goal of setting up vision clinics and performing eye exams in local churches while Cru missionary staff […]

by Jayna Richardson Moms who have children with disabilities often carry heavy burdens. The physical fatigue, discouragement, and anxiety about the future can weigh a family down. However, FamilyLife leaders Mekka and Yulia Malabaev also know that in Christ, these moms can find joy and celebrate the victories and milestones as they depend on the […]

Last year, Jim and Jo Soon helped roll out several trial sessions of The Art of Parenting® in a Baptist church in Taiwan. About 100 individuals attended the online sessions and experienced a fresh touch of God’s grace. Here are some of the testimonies the Soons collected highlighting the Holy Spirit’s work in the lives […]

By Jayna Richardson FamilyLife’s vision of “Every home a godly home” is reaching further globally than ever before. With the launch of the new Arabic FamilyLife website, www.arabfamilylife.com, families throughout the Arabic-speaking world now have access to free, biblical materials to strengthen their marriages and learn about Jesus. At a recent leadership conference in the […]

By Jimmy Liu Since 2019, my wife and I have facilitated five Art of Marriage® courses in our city, Taichung, with more than 200 people participating. This course runs at a rather slow pace, with only one session per month. In between the sessions, we meet with each couple or single person to disciple them, […]

by Jayna Richardson FamilyLife Philippines, like most ministries around the world, was forced to adapt to changes brought on by COVID-19. They shifted from face-to-face ministry to online ministry—something they optimistically dubbed “borderless ministry.” This positive outlook has served them well, particularly as they’ve enlisted Filipino couples to try out FamilyLife’s new Vertical Marriage small-group […]

by Jayna Richardson “You can’t believe how much we need this!” When it comes to solid, practical teaching on marriage and family issues, people of the Middle East are hungry for help and truth. FamilyLife representatives Jim and Judy Burrows and Dave and Jennifer Cook saw this firsthand when they visited the region in February […]

 “What? Why? Where are you pushing me to?” Krystin Bernandez, 36, had just finished her obstetrician checkup at a hospital and was immediately wheeled into the operating theatre. “The fetus is growing outside of your womb. So sorry, I’m afraid we’ve got to remove it.” Shell-shocked, Krystin broke down and cried. This happened in August […]

(Copyright 2018) Greg and Lyn Wu* first learned about FamilyLife through attending an Art of Marriage® event in Beijing. Because of the difficulties they were facing in their marriage, particularly in their communication patterns, they didn’t want to go back after the first night. But God was at work in drawing them together and bringing […]

Warren and Ann Abrameit, an American couple from Texas who both work as doctors, were surprised to hear from their old friends, Sameh and Mona. The two couples had met ten years ago in the Middle East. Warren and Ann were living and working there at the time and doing ministry on the side using […]

Attendees at a recent Weekend to Remember in South Asia had the opportunity to participate in something very special—the world premiere of Like Arrows, FamilyLife’s new movie that follows Alice and Charlie on a parenting journey that spans fifty years. The Weekend to Remember was organized by a volunteer couple who were trained by FamilyLife […]

For many years we have been praying for new volunteers in the FamilyLife ministry. One family from a town in my country contacted me last July; they said that God had laid on their hearts to minister to families there. I began to interact with them via Skype and Whatsapp, and in the beginning of […]

My husband and I have been married for seven years now. Before we met God, our relationship was topsy turvy. We likened it to a yo-yo trick called “walking the dog” because it seemed we had more down moments than good times. In those seven years, we were happy for the first two and half. […]

“Hinihiling naming tumayo ang lahat ng mga nanay! Mga tatay! Mga ate at kuya!” (We would like to request all the mothers! Fathers! Older sisters and brothers to stand!) Applause broke out as hundreds of people began to stand across the room. Couples from all over the country, singles cheering, toddlers chasing each other around the […]

(Copyright 2016) The narrow valley floor between two steep mountain rock faces north of Beijing was the location for the first ever Chinese speaker couples’ retreat March 4-6. All five of our committed Chinese speaker couples were able to attend, squeezing the weekend in between their equally tight schedules. All of the couples attending live […]

When Al MacKinnon received an invitation from Military Christian Fellowship (MCF) to come to an earthquake-torn country in South Asia on a mission trip, he quickly agreed. Knowing that life there has been challenging since a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit there a year ago, he was looking forward to the opportunity to serve other believers […]

(Copyright 2015) It was a bitterly cold January night in Beijing. As Sheryl and I stepped out of the taxi and began the short walk to the apartment building, I could feel the sharp cut of the winter wind biting at any exposed skin. Our Chinese friends, Shaun and Sara, had offered their apartment if […]

(Copyright 2014) It started at a high school reunion where James, one of our FamilyLife Chinese speakers, reconnected with his friend after 30 years. They found out that they were both Christians, his friend from a Christian heritage and James as an adult. James mentioned to his friend that he and his wife, Joanne, were […]

(Copyright 2014) A 15-year-old girl in Shanghai had an English teacher give her an English copy of Passport to Purity ®, FamilyLife’s resource for teaching adolescents about love, sex, and relationships. She took it home to show to her mother. Her mother, who had only been a Christian for about three months, could not read […]

Dias and Ayana were going through a difficult time. Dias had lost his job, and they had just had a baby boy. Dias soon found work, but due to their busy schedule, they were unable to continue attending church. As a result, they were spiritually hungry and depressed. They began attending our Resolving Conflict HomeBuilders […]

Young believers in certain parts of Asia can have a tough time finding other singles who share their faith. Although many of these believers desire marriage and family, churches are often small (many of them meet in houses) and limited in opportunities for Christians to meet and date other Christians. Thomas, a Korean FamilyLife missionary, […]

The Philippines, a 7,100-islands republic, is inhabited by over 97 million people. Her people are multi-racial (Malay, Chinese, Spanish, and more) and multi-lingual (speaking several dialects of eight major languages, plus 171 additional dialects). These factors make the Philippines a very challenging country in which to conduct ministry, but Teody and Evelyn Pajaron don’t shy […]

(Copyright 2012) FamilyLife is excited to announce that the Mandarin Chinese version of our Weekend to Remember video conference and manual has been officially approved by the Chinese government! This is a big deal in China where the government owns all publishing houses and can withhold an ISBN number if they don’t approve of the […]

Editor’s note: FamilyLife appointed Paul to translate several books into Arabic. He recently shared with us how translating the materials made a big difference in his own life and marriage. When FamilyLife gave me the option to choose one HomeBuilders book to translate into Arabic, I immediately chose Resolving Conflict in your Marriage for one […]

Seven years ago, the FamilyLife leaders of Taiwan (James and May Lee) met a woman named Elita who was seeking marriage advice. Her husband had abandoned her seven years previously for another woman and had sought a divorce from her several times. Elita never wavered in her commitment to him and instead prayed, waited, and […]

“Some men showed courage throughout their lives; others sailed with the wind until the decisive moment when their conscience and events propelled them into the center of the storm,” wrote John F. Kennedy in his Pulitzer-prize winning book, Profiles in Courage.  It takes courage to take decisive and extraordinary actions.  It takes courage to engage […]

(A testimony from the FamilyLife Malaysia leaders): A couple was introduced to attend the I Still Do seminar. This couple had been quarreling; they had already separated and were moving towards divorce. After the seminar, they agreed to meet with us for counseling.  By God’s grace, during the counseling process, they repented and agreed to […]

1. “Before we got married, my wife and I completed the “Preparing for Marriage” course.  At first, we did not know how to effectively prepare for marriage.  We did not even know what to discuss.  We were not sure what we knew and what we did not know either.  This course helped us a lot […]

God continues to open doors for FamilyLife in Hong Kong to spread the good news through building a family God’s way. They have launched the FamilyLife Parenting Seminar in addition to their HomeBuilders Couples Series studies and marriage seminars. They also have begun using Passport 2 Purity to help parents and preteens. Iron and Jennie […]