Financial Assistance
Establish a way for single parents to communicate serious financial needs and a budget category to help meet those needs. Make sure single parents understand that this is a limited resource and that all their needs will not be met through this fund.
Baby-sitting
Offer free baby-sitting to single parents for events that the church wants single parents to attend.
Services
Develop a directory of services available for single parents, such as home or car repair, that are donated by others in the church or in the community. If not donated, offer services at substantial savings.
Parenting Seminars
Provide information on parenting. Bring in women to talk to men about raising daughters and men to talk to women about raising sons.
Role Models
Invite single parents who are successfully parenting to speak to your group.
Church Grandparents
Establish a program where grandparent-age adults in the church who don’t have grandchildren living in town can adopt children of single parents as their grandchildren.
Lois Mowday Rabey, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
