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The most powerful solution to a hidden pain in your church.
When members' kids grow up and walk away from the faith, empty-nest parents in your church are quietly hurting, and almost no one is helping them.
HomeWord gives you a complete, ready-to-teach ministry that does. Built over 40 years by Dr. Jim Burns, so it is not one more thing you have to create from scratch.
One trusted resource for every season of family life. Delivered to your church, one chapter at a time.
For 40 years, HomeWord has created books, video courses, and digital content for every phase of a family’s story.
The full journey is seven chapters, from pre-marriage to the empty nest. We are now bringing them to churches, and we are starting with the chapter almost no one else is serving.
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Your most faithful people. The one season you have the least built for.
Empty nesters are among your longest-tenured and most generous members, and most churches offer them almost nothing designed for the chapter they are actually in.
Prodigals, and no roadmap
So many of these parents are quietly grieving adult children who have walked away from faith. They are looking to you for a way forward, and most of us were never handed one.
A quiet crisis under the surface
A quiet crisis under the surface
When the kids leave, marriages go quiet, an identity built around parenting loses its job description, and purpose gets fuzzy. It looks stable from the platform. It rarely is underneath.
The quiet heartbreak of feeling powerless
The calendar is full of ministry for kids, students, and young families. This large, faithful group often has no track of their own, and they feel it.
You do not have to build this ministry from scratch...
HomeWord already spent 40 years doing that.
What you actually get:
A complete ministry, ready to teach this weekend.
Video with downloadable resources
Teaching video plus the handouts, guides, and discussion tools your leaders need. No design work on your end.
Sermon series, already outlined.
Each course includes a full sermon series outline and notes, so a teaching weekend is planning, not building.
Preach it, teach it, or hand it off.
Every course is a stand-alone resource built for the stage, a small group, or one-on-one care. You choose the setting.
A pastor welcome box.
3 books, a journal and pen set, your partner certificate, and a welcome video. A real handshake, not just a login.
10% off for your whole congregation.
Everyone in your church gets 10% off all books at HomeWord.com. The resource keeps reaching homes past Sunday.
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Chapter 7: The Empty Nest
The Empty Nest Digital Suite
Three complete courses on the empty-nest chapter, built from HomeWord's most trusted teaching. All three unlock with every use.
COURSE 01
When Your Adult Child Strays
A compassionate, practical guide for parents heartbroken by an adult child who has walked away from their faith or values, offering a path to trade heartache for hope and keep the relationship strong.
COURSE 02
Doing Life With Your Adult Children
Practical advice and hopeful encouragement for navigating the changing parent-child relationship after your kids turn eighteen, from setting healthy boundaries to staying connected without controlling.
COURSE 03
Finding Joy In The Empty Nest
An encouraging roadmap for rediscovering purpose, passion, and connection in the next phase of life once the kids have moved out and your daily role as a parent shifts.
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Same founding benefits either way. Pick monthly to start light, or annual to save two months.
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$100/m
Cancel anytime. No annual commitment.
- Full Empty Nest suite, unlimited use
- All 7 chapters as they release
- Pastor welcome box
- 10% congregation book discount
- Founding price locked for life
Billed $100 each month.
Annual
$1,000/y
$1,200 Save $200 versus monthly
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- Two months free, every year
- One line item, one approval, once a year
- Pastor welcome box ships on day one
- Founding price locked for life
One payment of $1,000. Renews yearly at your locked rate.