CFC Family Ministry
For the first 12 years of the life of CFC, the single focus was on
evangelizing and renewing married couples. Even though many non-couples were asking about how they could also be a part of the CFC community, the mandate of the Lord extended only to the work with couples. It has since become clear that the Lord simply wanted to assure a solid fondation, one based on the renewal of Christian couples and their families, for the large work that was to come.
And it came in June of 1993, on CFC's 12th anniversary. At that time,
the CFC Family Ministries were launched:

The CFC Kids for Christ is basically an in-house program for the younger children of CFC members, those with ages 4 to 12 years. It
is actually a children's club, where the kids of CFC members can identify
themselves with, and where they can experience fun, friendship and faith. It
is not a formation program, a catechetical instruction group, or a Sunday
school type program. KFC exists to empower the CFC parent, having the right
balance of activities which is integrated into the over-all structure of
CFC. The Junior Kids Day (four hours) is the formal entry point to kids ages
four to eight. The Senior Kids Camp (one and a half days), meanwhile, is for
ages 9 to 12. With YFC members as facilitators, the Kids Day and Kids Camp
is similar to a Youth Camp, but has more games and activities which
incalculate the same values and teachings meaningful to those who belong to
this age group.

The CFC Youth for Christ is for older youth, those with ages from 12 to 21 years. The Lord imbued YFC with a strong missionary spirit.
The youth can be effective partners in mission and are in fact crucial to
the future of Couples for Christ, the church and the country. To spread the
good news more effectively by creating an environment in the campus and the
community that is appealing and life-giving to young adults. Thus the need
to organize sportsfest, praisefest, songfest and other social activities
exciting to the youth. By focusing on the need for young people to grow in
holiness and to view their body as the temple of the Holy Spirit - stressing
not just purity for woman, but for the men as well. In YFC, we talk about
virginity for men, particularly since they initiate sexual activities and
often lead the girls to sin. To create a greater awareness for service to
the community particularly the poor and the dispossessed. As CFC expands its
ministry in depressed areas, YFC is a major component in its work since the
youth oftentimes are the hardest hit victims of poverty leading many of them
to gangs and a life of crime.

The CFC Singles for Christ is for single men and women with ages from 21 to the 40's. Truly, most single professional men and woman
have been burdened in climbing the ledder to success. Fortunately, thousands
of these singles have responded to God's call and acknowledged that only He
can lessen the burden and make them live joyful and peaceful lives. They may
be in the world, but they are not of the world. One exciting and interesting
highlight about SFC's existence is its smooth integration to CFC, not only
in terms of its structure, but also because a good number of its members
have found their lifetime partners in SFC, while those who came in ahead
invited their "loves" to join as well, thereby forging a stronger
relationship focused on the Lord.

The CFC Handmaids of the Lord (HOLD) is for single parents, separated or divorced, unmarried mature singles, married with husbands working overseas or physically incapacitated and widows. The ministry has a vision parallel to Couples for Christ, that is, to bring all families into a life of renewal in the Holy Spirit. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, single parent women, with the dual role of mother and father, shape the lives of their children with direction coming from the Lord. Migrant women workers under the Lord's guidance can bring honor to their home country and spread the faith wherever they are. Wives of overseas workers can inspire their husbands to likewise live lives which have been renewed in the Holy Spirit, as they themselves are experiencing a life of peace and joy inspite of being apart.

The CFC Servants of the Lord (SOLD) is the counterpart of the Handmaids for the men. As the male counterpart of HOLD, the members
of SOLDS are overseas countract workers, some members of the military,
single parents (widowers, separated or divorced), unmarried mature single
men, married with wives working overseas of physically incapacitated.
In addition, CFC has established Child Development Centers for kids ages 2
to 6 years.
What all the above has given us in CFC a "womb-to-tomb" ministry. When a
child is born into a CFC family, its first two years are spent being
nurtured and learning to walk and talk. Then the child can be enrolled in a
CFC Child Development Center. At age 6 or so, the child can join CFC Youth
for Christ. At age 12 or so, the budding teenager can join CFC Youth for
Christ. After school, at about age 21, he or she can join CFC Single for
Christ. Once they get married, they move on to Couples for Christ. When a
spouse dies, the surviving spouse can transfer to CFC Handmaids or the Lord
(for widows) of CFC Servant of the Lord (for widowers).
There is a continuity in spiritual formation and support which is not found
in most other groups. There is an assurance of a familiar environment and
community culture for the full length of one's earthly life. One can
continue to grow in the Lord through the years in the same Christian
community, able to deepen personal friendships and relationships which
endure. A single person can find a spouse and be assured of solid formation
and a compatible spirituality. There can be a focus on the one mission in
which the whole CFC family is involved.
A CFC child starts life in the womb of godly CFC mother supported by a godly
CFC father, is born into a godly CFC home where he or she is nurtured and
loved, and then starts a lifelong journey of involvement in the larger
family of CFC. In addition to parental formation and support, he or she is
supported by a vibrant, loving community through the years of childhold,
adolescence, single life, marriage, and later the death of one's spouse. In
CFC, with is "womb-to-tomb" ministry, one can literally invest a whole
lifetime.
This is God's gift to all of us in the community that is CFC. It is our
assurance of the Lord's blessings from birth to death. It is God's provision
for us to enable us after our earthly sojourn to enter into our eternal
reward in heaven.
Ever wonder if a heavenly CFC awaits us in the afterlife?