2009 and the Family

As I read an email from Tom Minnery, Senior Vice President, Government & Public Policy at Focus on the Family entitled "2010, Standing For the Family...with your help" I was saddened by the first paragraph that read:

• As I wrote to you a short time ago, 2009 will go down in history as ushering in the most damaging policies for families that we've ever seen in our lifetimes. Our president and Congress initiated an agenda of "change" that included pro-abortion, pro-gay policies, anti-faith and anti-family legislation and appointments. We have faced the ongoing attempts to include abortion funding in government-run health care. But despite all this, Focus on the Family® has continued to protect the institution of the family.

At the same time I was once again thankful for Focus on the Family and FamilyLife, two large para church organizations that support Christian family values in America. I pray now that as we follow in their footsteps to set out and start a Faith Based Non Profit Marriage Ministry, SOS Marriage Care, that we will continue to encourage marriage and families to be all God intended them to be.

Humbled by the work of Focus on the Family and FamilyLife and humbled that God is using us as well. Mind you, not in comparison to their large endeavor and organization, just as encouraged by them via their ministry to us.