Year in Review 2024
Praise God for the redeeming work He is doing in families through you! Your generous support provides lifechanging resources to change eternities, heal marriages, equip parents, save lives, and help children and families in foster care.
We give thanks for the impact you’ve made on families this year:
EVANGELISM — 193,000 decisions for Christ
On average this year , you’ve helped 528 people commit or recommit to Christ every single day through Focus on the Family resources and outreaches.
MARRIAGE — 580,000 stronger marriages
You also helped save over 170,000 marriages in crisis in the last 12 months through critical resources like Focus on the Family’s Hope Restored™ program. You helped continue expansions of Hope Restored into Texas and Arizona. And you inspired and equipped 510,000 married couples to pour into other marriages. Your support also provides broadcasts, counseling resources, articles, books, mentor training, marriage events like Resist the Drift and podcasts to save and strengthen marriages.
PARENTING — 680,000 parents equipped to raise children in faith
This year, our Adventures in Odyssey® radio program reached a big milestone thanks to friends like you — our 1,000th episode! Another significant landmark this year is that Raising Highly Capable Kids™ has helped over 40,000 parents nationwide with tools and resources needed to raise resilient, successful children. Your support also provides parenting resources like Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, podcasts, print and online materials, counseling resources, Plugged In®, Bring Your Bible to School Day® and Live It monthly challenges, and award-winning magazines — Brio®, Clubhouse® and Clubhouse Jr®.
ENGAGING CULTURE — 840,000 people inspired to impact culture
Over 840,000 people have been equipped to promote biblical and pro-family values in culture because of the resources you provide like magazines, events and programs that support life, family and faith. Last year, you inspired over 340,000 people to serve and make a positive difference in their community.
SAVING LIVES — 500,000 babies saved and 570,000 families helping children in foster care
Your support saves lives through our Option Ultrasound™ program. You’ll come alongside local pregnancy medical centers around the country with grants that provide training and technology for free ultrasounds, as well as abortion pill reversal training, and even funds for much-needed medical personnel. And you make the My Choice Network possible. You’ve also helped children in foster care through Focus on the Family’s Foster Care and Adoption program, including Wait No More® events. Other efforts include our suitcase bundle program that impacted children and adoption information training for pregnancy medical center staff.
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We hear from families every day who are struggling. From couples on the verge of divorce to parents who feel overwhelmed, they need lifechanging resources.
You can reach families with biblical truth and the healing power of Jesus Christ with your support today. Your gift will provide Focus on the Family broadcasts, podcasts, print and online articles, counseling resources, special events and other tools to bring God’s healing to families in crisis.
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It’s always encouraging to review the various ways the Lord has used your support to touch lives, and it inspires and fuels future ministry.
Marriage
I know you agree that every healthy society must begin with healthy marriages — which form the cornerstone of thriving families. In fact, nurturing and strengthening marriages is one of the highest priorities you make possible here at Focus.
Your gifts sow into marriages many ways. First, the daily radio show, Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, regularly addresses the topic of marriage. You’ve also made possible an extensive library of resources including numerous books on marriage, hundreds of website articles, Q&As, and videos that touch on various facets of the marriage relationship.
For those dealing with more complex issues, your gifts support a team of caring staff counselors standing by to offer free, one-time phone consults to those who are seeking advice, encouragement, and prayer as they navigate difficult situations or even crises.
Finally, the Hope Restored marriage intensive program ranks among the most dynamic and impactful initiatives you make possible. This outreach is geared specifically for couples whose marriages are on the brink of divorce, with locations up and running in five states.
Here’s what one Hope Restored intensive attendee said about this aspect of our ministry:
You went above and beyond. I was nervous not knowing what to expect, but everyone was amazing. We were heading toward divorce, and now we’re not. We’re thankful for the way God worked this week out.
Through Hope Restored and the many other marriage-building efforts you support at Focus, in the last year you’ve assisted more than 170,000 couples in significant progress toward saving their marriage. Meanwhile, you’ve helped over 580,000 other couples build a stronger marriage.
Parenting
You are also empowering moms and dads to raise godly, caring, resilient kids. Radio shows and podcasts are tailored to parents, as well as print materials and a wealth of online content to help mothers and fathers. Additionally, programs such as Raising Highly Capable Kids are reaching families and children in underserved communities with practical, effective parenting advice.
In the last year, Focus supporters like you helped more than 680,000 parents to improve their parenting skills, build closer family bonds, and instill faith and character within their children. Not only that, but in the same time period you helped over 210,000 parents work through a significant crisis involving their child.
Advocacy for Children
We are grateful for your passion to serve as a champion for “the least of these” (Matthew 25:40), which certainly includes at-risk children. Across the country, thousands of children have been placed in foster care and are awaiting permanent homes. Your generosity serves as Christ’s hands and feet to these children and teens in need. As a result of our Wait No More initiative, over the past 12 months approximately 570,000 families participated in some way in our efforts to serve kids in the foster care system.
Beyond those endeavors, your unwavering belief in the sanctity of human life has saved babies in the womb by coming alongside abortion-minded women. For example, you support the Option Ultrasound program, which equips pregnancy medical clinics around the country with ultrasound training and technology. Thanks to your generosity in this project, more than half a million babies have been saved from abortion since Option Ultrasound was launched in 2004!
Culture
Just as strong families benefit the culture, a culture solidly rooted in Judeo-Christian values is a tremendous boon to families. You help encourage families to stay actively engaged in the public square by making their voices heard and faithfully representing biblical principles wherever God opens the door to do so.
Through The Daily Citizen, the online news source you support, you help keep folks apprised of the most pressing issues that impact families so that they, in turn, can speak out on these matters.
Last year alone, you helped inspire and equip more than 840,000 people to work toward promoting biblical and pro-family values in the culture through civic engagement.
I hope you’re heartened by this brief overview into your labors over the past year. But there is so much more to do! We live during a time when culture doesn’t value or respect faith and family. Immorality and confusion reigns. That is why your support is so vital.
Your gift today will give families the unwavering truth found in Scripture and offer practical tools to bring them healing and strength. Please give now to see more families strengthened in Christ. As a non-profit organization, we depend on your generosity to continue providing families with the resources they need.
God bless you!
Jim Daly
President
Focus on the Family
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