BUILDING FAMILIES FOR LIFE
The CUNZ has a four year mission project called Building Families for Life.
The project is around the BFL parenting course developed by Rev. Ian and Barbara Hooker with the Three Kings Congregational Church, and is being developed for use by the CUNZ Missions Committee.
At present the material has been translated into three pacific languages; Cook Island, Samoan, and the Niue language as well an English.
We have run Teacher Training workshops in Nauru, Kiribati, Uniting Church PNG and Uniting Church Solomon Islands and a trip to mainland China in October 2009 has shown an ongoing need for BFL, ALPHA marriage etc. These workshops have proved most valuable as trained members have gone back to their own regions to teach the material to their communities and congregations. Huge interest has also been expressed by Community leaders searching for ways of making families stronger to resist the HIV and Aids scourge which is attacking vulnerable people
The BFL material has also been translated into Korean and Chinese languages, with teaching DVDs now available in English, and in Mandarin.
If there is any interest in this material, contact Ian and Barbara at Building Families for Life for more details.