The Health Promotion Sunday materials for "Celebrating Family" honor and affirm the strengths of families while recognizing the wide diversity of family structures and styles that are represented within the Church of the Brethren. They offer ways that churches can celebrate this rich diversity within family units, congregations and the wider church family — the worshiping community. In a theological reflection piece on "Celebrating Family," Donald Miller writes: "Throughout the Bible there is a tension between family understood in terms of blood ties on one hand and faith relationships on the other." The writers for this packet have attempted to honor this tension and pay tribute to both.

Each resource is available as a web page.

• Theological Perspective: Families in the Bible
• An Historical Understanding of Family in the Church of the Brethren
• 50 Ways to Celebrate Families
• Worship Resources
• Sunday School Materials
• Devotions for Board Meetings and Small Groups
• Bibliography