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    Your Generosity Strengthens Canadian Families

    Your donation to Focus on the Family Canada helps families thrive in a culture that increasingly devalues faith and family.

    Families today face pressure from every direction. Married couples are struggling to communicate and feel connected. Parents feel ill-equipped to help their children navigate cultural pressures. Many young people are walking away from their faith. And in moments of crisis, families often don’t know where to turn.

    When families break down, communities suffer.

    But it doesn’t have to be this way.

    You can be part of the solution.

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    Why Supporting Families Matters

    Marriages Are Breaking Down

    Marriage breakdown continues to impact couples across Canada. Many young adults are delaying or avoiding marriage altogether, and struggling couples at every stage of married life lack trusted Christian help.

    Youth Are Leaving Their Faith

    Parents are finding it harder to pass on a vibrant personal faith to their children, tweens, and teens. As a result, many young people disengage from the Church and deconstruct their faith.

    Christians Feel Silenced by Culture

    Believers often struggle to live out their faith confidently in today’s cultural climate and feel pressure to shrink back and stay quiet.

    Life Pressures Are Fracturing Families

    Crises, mental health struggles, parenting challenges, and relational conflict leave families searching for help – often in unhealthy places. Christian family support in Canada has never been more needed.

    How Your Donation Makes a
    Real Difference

    Your generosity provides practical help and Christ-centred hope to families nationwide.

    Because of you:

    • — A couple in crisis can find counsellor-approved marriage help.
    • — A parent can receive trusted biblical guidance.
    • — Teens and children can hear truth through safe, engaging media.
    • — Someone battling depression is prayed for, counselled, and pointed to encouraging resources.

    In a world filled with confusion and uncertainty, your gift delivers encouragement, guidance, and hope rooted in Scripture.

    You’re not just funding programs — you’re helping families build a heritage of faith.

    Our Christ-Centred Approach

    At Focus on the Family Canada, we believe every family has the potential to thrive. Lasting change happens when education, encouragement, and personal support are grounded in God’s Word.

    Christ-Centred

    Everything we do flows from the transforming power of God. While our guidance is biblically based, our support is available to anyone seeking help for their families.

    Education & Inspiration

    Families need practical tools and meaningful encouragement. We provide:

    • — Marriage and parenting resources
    • — Faith-building content
    • — Audio shows and digital media
    • — Books and magazines
    • — Programs and events

    Through multiple platforms, families across Canada can access support wherever they are.

    Compassionate Care

    Sometimes people need the support of another believer, a real person to help them work through a problem. That’s why we offer:

    • — One-on-one phone counselling consultations
    • — A real person to pray with over the phone
    • — Tailored guidance for unique challenges

    We meet families where they are, with compassion and biblical truth.

    Reaching Families Across Canada

    For over 40 years, we have served diverse Canadian families at every age and stage from coast to coast.

    Each year, we offer:

    • — 10,000+ prayer requests
    • — 4,000+ hours of counselling
    • — 3,300+ resources available online

    Since 1983, supporters have helped us provide mode than:

    • — 11,000 episodes of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
    • — 700,000 phone calls
    • — 500,000 prayer requests
    • — 60,000 magazine pages with faith-filled advice
    • — 42,500+ counselling calls and emails
    • — 1,000,000 resources for Canadian families

    Through shows, podcasts, articles, videos, magazines, digital guides, and in-person events, millions of Canadians have received faith-based family guidance.

    The full impact can only be measured in changed lives – restored marriages, strengthened parents, and renewed faith.

    Share Your Story

    We know God is at work in everyone’s story. If Focus on the Family Canada has been part of your story, we’d love to hear how God has used this ministry in your life.

    When you share your story, you encourage others, inspire hope, and honour God’s power to heal and restore.

    Share Your Story

    Impact at a Glance

    Thanks to our generous donors, we have seen:

    • — $13 million in ministry revenue
    • — 18,000+ active supporters
    • — 11,584 prayer requests received
    • — 2,394 counselling inquiries
    • — 60 Hope Restored marriage events
    • — 30 Kerith Retreats for pastors
    • — Weekly radio programming reached an estimated 650,000 listeners across Canada

    Your generosity fuels measurable, national impact.

    Financial Accountability & Stewardship

    Annual Reports
    & Financial Statements

    As a trusted Christian charity, we take stewardship seriously. Our finances are reviewed quarterly by our Board of Directors and audited annually by independent public auditors.

    We are certified by the Canadian Centre for Christian Charities (CCCC) and adhere to their Standards of Accountability.

    Donors can access annual reports and financial statements, ensuring full transparency in how funds are used.

    We are committed to transparency and responsible stewardship.

    Ethical Fundraising & Donor Rights

    As stewards of the resources God entrusts to us, we are committed to integrity in fundraising and responsible financial management.

    Donor Bill of Rights

    Philanthropy is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public, and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the charitable and non-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:

    • — To be informed of the organization’s mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.
    • — To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization’s governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.
    • — To have access to the organization’s most recent financial statements.
    • — To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.
    • — To receive appropriate acknowledgement and recognition.
    • — To be assured that information about their donation is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.
    • — To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.
    • — To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.
    • — To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.
    • — To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.

    © 2016 Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission from the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

    We encourage supporters to prioritize their local church first and give as God leads.

    Integrity in Fundraising

    1. 1. This ministry belongs to God. As his stewards, we’re accountable to his objectives, interests and concerns.
    2. 2. The future of God’s work doesn’t depend on the of this organization. But as long as he supplies the means, we will serve others in his name.
    3. 3. We’ll be honest about our financial needs and fundraise in a respectful manner.
    4. 4. We will do our best to operate the ministry without a deficit. If unforeseen expenses arise and we have to borrow, we will do our best to repay the loan quickly.
    5. 5. You’ll receive clear and understandable tax receipts.
    6. 6. We request that you support the work of your own local church first, before you contribute to Focus on the Family Canada.

    These guidelines are based upon a firm conviction that everything we are and everything we have comes to us by the grace of God. If we remain faithful, we’re confident that the Lord will sustain us while his purposes for this ministry endure.

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    We respect your privacy and protect your personal information. For more detailed information, please see our privacy policy.

    Helping Families Thrive

    Families across Canada are searching for guidance, hope, and truth. Your gift helps provide marriage help, parenting resources, faith-based counselling, and Christ-centered encouragement nationwide.

    Together, we can strengthen families — and transform communities.

    Give today and help families thrive.

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