Sadly, Christian teens are not immune to the effects of divorce. Even among Christian families, the divorce rate is more than 50 percent. The emotions and issues that are brought up after divorce can leave teens feeling lost and confused about their family and their faith.

If you've watched your parents get divorced, you know how much it stinks. A lot of times there's blame, anger, frustration, confusion, fear, and a ton of other emotions and issues that come up—just as much for you as for your parents. But you don't have to hold on to those emotions anymore.

Leader’s Guide:

In this six-week study, you can help students deal with the thoughts and feelings they're experiencing after a divorce—whether it happened recently or when they were younger. With engaging stories and thought-provoking questions, students will explore issues of anger, guilt, forgiveness, family, and more through a biblical lens, offering them hope and healing.

This leader's guide will give you the tools to help you lead students through this study—whether you have experienced divorce in your lifetime or not. You'll find that when you give students the opportunity to open up and examine the feelings involved with divorce, much-needed healing can begin in their lives.

Student’s Guide:

In this six-week study, you can begin healing from the hurt you experienced when your parents split up—whether it happened recently or when you were younger. You'll have a chance to hear stories of other people's experiences with divorce, look at what the Bible says about family and marriage, as well as anger, guilt, and forgiveness, and explore what you're feeling in the midst of it all. In the end, you'll begin to heal as you find some hope for the future.

Your family has changed. There's not much that you can do about that. But you can change your heart as you begin to let go of the pain you've been carrying.

Release Date: January 2009. Click here to order your copy today!

You'll just know whether or not to get married, most people say.

Come on...but how? How do you really know whether or not to take that next step?

Finally, here is a pre-engagement book that asks the complex questions while steering clear of easy answers. Before Forever is designed to help you in your faith journey with God as you wrestle with the tough, inner questions behind one of the most soul-searching questions any of us ever asks in life:

When it's time to decide whether or not to marry, how do we know that we know?

This Waco-based ministry leads small groups of engaged couples through a 7-week pre-marital education program called "Countdown to Marriage". Elizabeth and Brandon Oates are among several couples who lead couples through the Countdown curriculum in both the fall and spring semesters.

To find out more about Legacy Family Ministries, go to www.countdowntomarriage.com or call 254-772-0412.

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