Family

• Advent in Iraq

  A deployed chaplain shares his thoughts leading up to Christmas.

• Child Evangelism

  Practical ways to share your faith with your children.

• Daddy's Letter to Son

  LTC Frank Gray's letter to his son explaining why he is back in the Army.

• Daddy, Don't Go Back!

  The Wesley family shares some lessons they learned through deployment.

• Double Duty

  An excerpt from Hope for the Home Front: Winning the Emotional and Spiritual Battles of a Military Wife by Marshéle Carter Waddell.

• Duty Calls

  Challnges are unique for married-to-each-other military with families when duty calls

• Essentials for Deployment-Resilient Marriages

  Couples in resilient marriages are intentional and vigilant in buildling successful relationships.

• Excellent Military Wife

  A paraphrased version of portions of Proverbs 31.

• Financial Responsibility for Children

  When our four children were young, my wife and I wondered how we could teach them financial responsibility.

• God's Children

  Insight into the daily sacrifices of military children.

• Heroes on the Homefront

  Sometimes the heroes are the ones who stay behind.

• Home Front Holidays

  How deployments affect the holidays.

• It Didn't Surprise God

  Imagine--the same God who fashioned the heavens and earth, and made man in His image--knew this would occur.

• Keep the End in Mind

  Looking ahead motivates us to live, work, and plan while we wait--and it is the key to living in the present with energy and hope.

• Keys to a Godly Marriage

  Four keys to a godly marriage.

• Lead Your Child to Christ

  Practical encouragement and tips in leading your child to Christ.

• Lost Shoes

  Only through Christ can we ever get the right "shoes" to enter heaven.

• North American AMCF Week of Prayer

  As Officers' Christian Fellowship's part in the prayer campaign of the North American AMCF Week of Prayer, 22-28 JAN 2012, we are asking each OCF fellowship group to forego the normal weekly group agenda for that one day/evening and spend the time in prayer instead.

• Of Trash and Treasure

  Things that I plan to leave for my children seem petty compared to the enduring legacy my heavenly Father has left to me.

• Plan your summer escape now
• Re-entry Reminders

  Some suggestions for managing the process of re-entry.

• Returning Home

  The adjustments families need to make can be improved by a good understanding of the stresses of separation and a strategy for thriving.

• Share My Calling

  God provides input into military marriages.

• Stretchmark Sorority

  Mothers share the responsibility of raising children to know and love our Lord.

• The Greengrass Twins

  Lack of contentment comes from entertaining lies.

• The Unconditional Love of a Father

  Father's Day is the perfect venue to consider those who first loved us--especially our Father in heaven.

• Thriving Bible Study

  OCF presents a new Bible study--specifically for women whose husbands are deployed.

• Two Greedy Institutions

  Balance the roles of Christian officer and Christian spouse.

• Walk in the Spirit

  A prayer for military wives.

• What A Discovery!

  A military dad shares what he experienced at Spring Canyon's Father Teen Adventure.

• What Are Parents to Do?

  Each themselves military officers, what's it like as a Mom and Dad to watch your child deploy?

• Whose Arm Doth Reach

  Every God-fearing dad in some way strives to image our heavenly Father.