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Join us in forming Christian families to be schools of love and Christian action!
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Questions about registering members, ordering materials or promoting CFM? To help you with these and other questions, Christian Family Movement maintains a National Office with a Member Services Director, Mary Kay Halpin. Feel free to Contact us by email at phone (800-581-9824) or mail (P.O. Box 540550, Omaha, NE 68154). Mary Kay is happy to help you to register members, order program materials, and locate CFM leadership assistance in your area. Are you new to CFM? Contact us for help in getting CFM started at your parish.
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Acting on Faith: The Acts of the Apostles and Today's Christian Families, 2012-2013 CFM Program Guide
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Acting on Faith:
The Acts of the Apostles and
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AVAILABLE NOW as a benefit of your 2012-2013 membership in the Christian Family Movement!: The Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament tells the story of how the first Christians practiced discipleship. We who follow Jesus today are also called to be his witnesses "not only in Jerusalem but throughout Judea and Samaria, and indeed to the ends of the earth." What "Book of Acts" will we Christian families write today? How will we participate in the mission of Jesus? Acting on Faith is a CFM inquiry on the Acts of the Apostles that features eight regular CFM meeting plans, plus a special children's program on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
To obtain a copy of this program guide or any of our other guides, click here to join CFM. As a benefit of your membership in CFM, you will receive a copy of a program guide and the bi-monthly ACT e-newsletter. On the membership form, members may also sign up to receive Marriage Moments and/or Parenting Pointers, short weekly emails providing messages of support and encouragement for married couples and/or parents, respectively.
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CFM Winter 2013 Board Meeting
Bringing ideas and experiences from around the country, CFM National Board members gathered at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Des Moines, Iowa February 15-17 for the annual Winter Board Meeting ...
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Marriage Encounter Downloads!
Click to download free of charge all of the Books and Booklets of Fr. Gabriel Calvo,
the Founder of Marriage Encounter!
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Grandparents: Models, Mentors and Memory-Makers
Click for an article on grandparenting written for the USCCB by Deacon
Gary and Kay Aitchison, past Executive Directors and current International CFM
Presidents. (This is an excerpt from their Grandparenting program book-see below.)
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The Grand Adventure: A New Call to Grandparenting Program Book
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| The Grand Adventure |
The Grand Adventure: A New Call to Grandparenting is a six-Meeting Grandparenting Program written by Deacon
Gary and Kay Aitchison, past Executive Directors and current International CFM
Presidents. The Grand Adventure was created in response to an observed need in today's
society to make better use of the grandparenting connection in family life...
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ICCFM 2010 Goa India Convention Photos
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| ICCFM Goa India |
The 2010 Assembly of ICCFM was held in Goa, India on September 10-14. Click here for Facebook photo album taken by North American ICCFM representatives John and Lauri Przybysz.
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For Your Marriage
This website is part of the National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage sponsored by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. The website's thrust, "What have you done for your marriage today?" is echoed in a TV and radio campaign of public service announcements. For those contemplating marriage and the engaged: there are excellent articles...
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USCCB Making a Case for Marriage
Why does marriage matter? Why choose to get married? Why work to stay married? These and other such questions are on people's minds today and the US Catholic Bishops provide some answers...
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| What is CFM? |
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Christian Family Movement is a national network of parish/neighborhood
small groups of Catholics and their families. Parents meet regularly in one
another's homes or at the parish. Through the use of programming and the dynamics of group interaction, Christian values are reinforced and families are encouraged to reach out in action to others. "All I really want is to be happy," my friend said to me. At age 32 he had earned a Ph.D., got a good job, and bought a house. Now he just wanted to find someone who could tell him how to be happy. Don't we all? Just tell us how to be happy.
"Do something for someone else." CFM families know that when we think about others and their needs, we forget about our own troubles. When we try to help someone else, we suddenly discover that we are happy too. CFM families join with other families in our Action Groups to put love into action... |
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Membership benefits include participation in the total CFM experience, a one year subscription to the ACT Newsletter, your choice of a current program book and service and assistance from Federation, Area and National Leaders. Complete a membership form now... |
| CFM Starter Kit |
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| CFM Starter Kit |
Click here for "starter kits" to get CFM going in your parish. Choose Family Enrichment or Marriage Enrichment. Kits contain four copies of a program book, instructions for the host on how to invite three other families to form a group and directions on how to lead the meetings... |
| CFM Parish and Group Leader Resources |
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The CFM USA Office offers our leaders support in forming groups, training leaders and leading meetings. Minutes of the National Board meetings, the CFM Bylaws and various documents created by the National Board for leaders are available here. This site is secured for leader members only. Contact . for access... |
| Donate to CFM via Network for Good |
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| Donate to CFM |
The Christian Family Movement relies on donations to keep the cost of dues low. If you feel the Lord moving you this month, please send your tax-deductible contribution to CFM via the Network For Good. Your generosity is appreciated and helps us in our mission... |
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CFM promotes Catholic teaching on marriage
and family life, social justice and ecumenism. The Catholic Bishops of the
United States recommend CFM in their documents, "Follow the Way of Love" and
"Called and Gifted for the Third Millennium." CFM is an active member of
the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers. Click for their web site... |
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