Equipping Parents 
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   To equip parents in building their domestic church, DCI offers a plan
​to achieve three goals that address the full development of each member of their family:
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Parents as the First Proclaimers
of the Gospel to their Children​

            SPIRITUAL FORMATION

Our children are persons of infinite value with body and soul and they are placed in our care.  God gives parents the authority and the grace to educate their children in the ways of the Lord.  If parents abnegate this responsibility and privilege, how will our children know that God cares for them, that He is active in their lives, and that they can respond with love to Him? ​ How will they consider and realize God's beautiful plan for their lives with the gifts they have been given to serve the Body of Christ? How will they experience true joy?

The Family as a School for
Inter-Personal Relationships

              RELATIONAL FORMATION

​Strengthening the marriage relationship is strengthening the foundation of relationships in the family.  Parent-children relationships and sibling relationships in daily family life form skills for other and future relationships. Based on love, only the Christian principles bring true peace both to the individual and the "other" in interpersonal relationships.  Who will model and who will teach our children about kindness, forgiveness, reconciliation?  How will they learn to be generous?  Will charity move their hearts towards others?

The Home as Training
for Human Values

                  MORAL FORMATION​​

The family is the interface between the individual and society.  Moral formation of our children consisting of instilling values and  practice of Christian virtues form character.  It is this formation that will inform their choices and decisions as they grapple with issues of life.  How will they order their lives if within themselves, there is no sense of order? Who will equip them with core values and encourage them in virtue that will act as their compass?   How will their conscience be formed?