Web Based Resources
SMORE for Women - Single Moms – Overjoyed, Rejuvenated, Empowered! Our Mission: To encourage single moms by inspiring them to achieve their full potential. SMORE was developed and is run by Gail Showalter, whom we utilized at our last Texas Baptist Single Adult Conference in Georgetown, and comes highly recommended for both her innovative and helpful resources and her conferences.
www.samconference.com – National Single Adult Ministry Conference - 2010 Conference Plans. We are in the planning phase of hosting the 2010 SAM Conference in Dallas, TX, near the end of June.
Hope & Help for the Single Mom - Lori Little has put together an exceptionally practical, helpful resource for single moms. This resource can be used in churches AND directly by single moms as a great asset to help them thrive in the midst of their overwhelming circumstances. I highly recommend this resource! Check it out today!
Single Life – at www.familylife.com – tons of resources, articles, tools, tips for ministering to the single adults in your care.
www.christianitytoday.com/singles/newsletter - great articles and encouragement for Single Adults, plus, a newsletter to which you can subscribe.
www.lifeway.com/singles - articles and current resources specifically for Single Adult ministries.
www.livingsingleagain.com - Living Single Again Offers Hope for Future Relationships. Seventy-five percent of all single-again people will remarry and seventy-five percent of those marriages will end in divorce. The old way of doing relationships is just not working. Single-Again people need a "New Hope for New Relationships." Living Single Again offers that hope.
Dave Edwards - www.davetown.com - had the privilege of hearing Dave at the SAM Conference early in May. He was not only side-splitting fun and non-stop entertainment, but also, absolutely spot-on with his biblical message, delivered in a captivating style that had us asking for more. Many of you have heard Dave at one event or another, but now’s your chance to consider getting together with others in your region and bringing in the real deal for a regional Single Adult retreat or one-night conference! Check out www.davetown.com!
Ken Davis – www.kendavis.com – Ken is a master of exceptionally family friendly comedy with a message of hope and nuggets of wisdom. On his website are plenty of sample video clips that will have you laughing and sharing clips with all your buddies! His off-kilter look at life is so funny and perfectly skewers us right where we are, we can’t help but find ourselves laughing out loud at ourselves, and suddenly, we see opportunities for change.
Moses Caesar – www.mosesbook.com – I had lunch with Moses last week! (How’d you like to be able to say THAT to your friends?!) We were running a little late, because he got lost on the way down here to my office. (To be expected where Moses is concerned, I guess!) But the meeting was incredibly refreshing and exciting! Check out “The Waiting Revolution”, and other resources at www.mosesbook.com, including his recent book, “The Tree in the Middle of My Garden”. On his site you’ll find video clips, his book, information about how you can arrange for him to come and speak to your group, and more. Moses is planning the conference for the Labor Day Retreat at Glorieta, with Lifeway’s blessing, and it is going to be EXCITING and DYNAMIC! See more information about the Labor Day retreat under “events”.
www.thesinglesnetwork.org – This is the organization of Kris Swiatocho, the engaging, humorous, and hip author/speaker who kept us all laughing and learning and on the edge of our seats at our single adult leadership conference at Sunnyvale FBC last April. We got SO many compliments on Kris’s presentations! Keep up with her calendar, contact her for booking, order her books, cd’s, dvd’s, and more. “Hey Kris!”
www.brentgambrell.com – Brent is a dynamic speaker/author/missionary whom I first heard at the ’08 SAM Conference in Orlando. He is funny, passionate, and living out the things he preaches. If you want your group to get passionate about missions, you need to hear Brent! His contagious enthusiasm is impossible to escape!
Mark Gungor Interview – Mark is the author of the “Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage” series which I’ve used multiple times and feel so strongly about. In this brief interview with CBN News, he voices some strong opinions about marriage, about how long we’re encouraging our children to remain single, and about how well we’re preparing, (or failing to do so), our kids for healthy marriages. You may or may not agree with everything Mark says, but it’s sure to spark healthy discussion of these vital issues! Take a look!
Please, send more suggestions of sites you use regularly for ideas, information, tools, and resources for your ministry…
Churches in TX who have active, creative Single Adult Ministries – Let us know what you’re doing, and we’ll publish a contact list for those who want to know who to talk to.
A regularly updated, “Single Adult Ministry Success Stories” section, from our churches - email us at with your success stories, and we’ll publish them here.
Churches with staff people specifically assigned to this ministry, and contact information – if you’re a staff person with a full or part time assignment for single adult ministry, let us know!