Larry Kreider - The Cry for Spiritual Mothers and Fathers: The Next Generation Needs You to Be a Spiritual Mentor

PRAISE FOR

THE CRY FOR SPIRITUAL
MOTHERS AND FATHERS

There are a few significant books on my bookshelf about the important issue of spiritual fathering and mothering, but none of them tops this one. Larry Kreider has reached into the storehouse of his unique experience and insight to offer us what will no doubt become a new standard on the subject. Because Larrys understanding of the role of spiritual parents in the family of God is so profound, I enthusiastically recommend this book to you.

Dr. David Cannistraci

Senior Pastor, GateWay City Church, San Jose, California
Author, Gods Vision for Your Church

Larry Kreider is a true servant to the Church, a leader whose dimension of effectiveness in advancing the Kingdom and shaping leaders evidences a level of gifting and humility that is so apostolic that it doesnt need that title to certify it. I trust this man because his heart is pure and his mind is clear.

Jack W. Hayford

Founder and Chancellor, The Kings University, Los Angeles and Dallas

Larry Kreiders book The Cry for Spiritual Mothers and Fathers reflects the values and vision he has imparted to DOVE Christian Fellowship International. The wisdom of these pages shows why DOVE has produced a stable, growing apostolic stream. When many American movements have declined or disappeared, Larry shows the way to growth and stability through spiritual parenting.

Dr. Daniel C. Juster

Director, Tikkun International

I devoured Larrys book in one reading. Now I want to go back and digest it so I can pass on to others what I have learned.

Floyd McClung

Founder, All Nations, Cape Town, South Africa

Once again Larry Kreider has pioneered the way for others with this new book. He combines experience, knowledge and passion to guide us into Kingdom community. Read it with a highlighter in your hand and a person you wish to mentor in your heart!

Ralph Neighbour

Touch Ministries, Texas

Larry has done it again! Hes put cutting-edge concepts into laymens language. This is by far the best book on spiritual parenting that I have read on this subject. The combination of biblical principles and practical examples easily goes cross-cultural. This should be read by senior church and missions leaders, but also by young leaders who can begin to apply the teachings immediately. Larry has true authority and experience that many will learn from. Buy numerous copies of this book, practice the principles and, whatever your ministry is, it will be multiplied into many future generations. Give this book away to faithful men and women now.

Jim Orred

Youth With A Mission, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Larry Kreider is a spiritual father! In his book The Cry for Spiritual Mothers and Fathers, he not only extends a call to those who have a heart to train and establish others, but shares practical wisdom that helps one generation establish the next. This book provides how-to blueprints and challenges all of us need to move beyond our dysfunctional and abusive relationships of the past to become models of relationship building for a new generation. The Cry for Spiritual Mothers and Fathers will help you to develop a new lifestyleafter all, we are always influencing someone.

Dr. Chuck D. Pierce

President, Glory of Zion International Ministries
President, Global Spheres, Inc.

Larry Kreider has identified the key issue in the Church world today: Will the Church become a parenting force to impart health to a broken world? The implications of the spirit of fathering affect every area of personal and corporate spiritual life. There is an urgent call today for relationships that provide healthy spiritual nurture and authority. God is calling us to actively give ourselves to both being spiritually fathered as well as becoming spiritual fathers. Larry Kreider not only teaches on spiritual fathering, he is a spiritual fatherand through his words, the Lord calls us to maturity.

Dr. Robert Stearns

Founder and Executive Director, Eagles Wings

The Cry for Spiritual Mothers and Fathers is much more than a road map showing how we who are mature Christians must nurture the newer generations. It is all of that, but it is also an awesome word for cutting-edge leadership in todays Church. I, for one, want to be the kind of fatherly leader that Larry Kreider urges us to be.

C. Peter Wagner

Vice President, Global Spheres, Inc.

What a great book! Its down to earth, practical, understandable and applicable to mentoring emerging leaders todayits authentic. Larry Kreider is a father in the Church today. He writes out of who he is and the practical experience he has gained over the years. This book is a must for those who are mentoring or discipling others.

Barbara J. Yoder

Senior Pastor, Shekinah International Apostolic Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan

2008, 2014 Larry Kreider

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To my wife, LaVerne,
to my family
and to everyone who reads this book and
becomes a spiritual mother or father.
May you find great joy in fulfilling your call from God.

Key: Everyone is called to be a spiritual mother or father.

Key: Spiritual children are our inheritance.

Key: Spiritual parenting involves family-type relationships as a way of life.

Key: There are three stages of growth for every believer.

Key: If you do not have a spiritual parent, begin by becoming one.

Key: Only God can meet your need for a fathers love.

Key: God can heal past wounds and restore His people for service.

Key: Multiple spiritual parents produce multiple spiritual parents.

Key: You need to initiate and build a relationship and then release your spiritual daughter or son.