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About Us
Welcome!
Welcome to Connected Families! We trust that in these pages you’ll learn about a way of parenting that reflects Jesus’ heart for us all through a plentiful library of resources full of grace and truth for parenting. We hope you’ll be encouraged that each member of your family is uniquely built in God’s image and that each relationship provides a potent opportunity to confirm God’s redemptive stance with each parent and child.
We do not seek here to teach a method, argue with others’ prescribed methods, or impart the “right way.” Rather, we seek to serve a “delicious banquet” of scriptural truth, ideas, practical tools, insight from neuroscience, and stories of transformation… all centered around a simple guiding framework of timeless, biblically-informed principles. We are so glad you are here!
Our Mission
Connected Families is a non-profit ministry that exists to support Christ-centered transformation in families by stewarding a growing worldwide community of parents, parent coaches, and ministry partners equipped with a biblical framework for parenting.
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2002
Year Established
15,387
Enrolled in courses
1,553
Donors
1,055
Parents coached
What We Do
Speaking
We’d love to speak with you through our podcast, and guest interviews.
Coaching
It is an honor to coach families like yours. Learn more about parent coaching.
Online Courses
Every year hundreds of students take our online parenting courses and experience growth.
Jim & Lynne Jackson
What makes a great parent?
It’s the burning question most parents ask at some point in their parenting journey. Is there a secret formula? A magical to-do list? And if those parenting weapons exist, where can you find them?
That exact burning question also sparked a desire in Jim and Lynne Jackson, co-founders of Connected Families, to fill a growing need for fresh, biblically sound, and practical parenting resources.
With over 50 combined years of professionally helping families and a love for working in the church, Jim and Lynne have been dedicated to bringing reliable, God-centered, research-based parenting resources to all families since 2002.
All of our work is donor-supported
We don’t want finances to prevent any family from gaining the parenting support they need. That’s why we offer generous scholarship opportunities to anyone who asks. To do that, we depend on you. If you have been blessed by Connected Family’s ministry, please prayerfully consider supporting us.
Donor Impact Report
Thanks to our donors, in FY2024, over 67,000 hungry parents were fed Christ-centered, biblically grounded, research-informed, trauma-sensitive content every week.
Learn more about how your generosity transforms chaos into connection. Download the FY24 Donor Impact Report.
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What makes Connected Families different?
A special combination of
- Professional and personal experience
- Biblical foundations infused by God’s grace and truth, AND
- A solid science-based and trauma-informed approach to everything we do
From those three important ingredients, we created a simple yet effective Connected Families Framework®.
Our Chinese Language Initiative
Approximately 16% of the world reads and writes Chinese and speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, or some other form of Chinese dialect. That means a lot of Chinese parents!
As it turns out, some of these committed Chinese parents and grandparents have reached out to Connected Families. To increase access to Connected Families resources we are working to translate several key resources (including the popular course “Discipline that Connects With Your Child’s Heart”), build a simple Chinese website, and train Chinese parent coaches.