Keeping Families Connected helps families facing challenges that are dividing them. We provide scriptural tools and resources to overcome those challenges, and to protect, strengthen and restore those relationships. And most importantly, to go deeper in your faith.
Whether you realize it or not, you and your family are targets in a spiritual and cultural battle. We’re here to equip you for that battle, strengthen your walk with the Lord, and to bring you scriptural truths, encouragement, healing and hope.
We offer powerful resources for the following areas:
- Personal Growth: Gain valuable insight into yourself and others. Learn how to be a better person, spouse or parent. Honestly assess your faith and discover how to grow deeper in your relationship with God. Our podcast is amazing!
- Marriage: For couples wanting to strengthen or save a troubled marriage.
- Divorce advice: Helping people to protect themselves, their children, and assets while minimizing the cost, conflict, and damage to their family in a divorce.
- Reconnecting with your child: Resources for any parent wanting to improve their relationship with their child. Especially those relationships where differing cultural, religious and political views are causing division in the family.
- Protecting your children: Strategies to protect your child from harmful forms of brainwashing and abuse such as Parental Alienation, Indoctrination, and Gender and Sexual Confusion; all of which lead to division in a family.
If you or someone you know is looking for real-life solutions for families struggling with difficult issues causing division in their family this site can help.
What In the World is Going On?
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself “What in the world is going on? How did things get so crazy and out of control?”
Are you struggling in your marriage?
Are you going through a difficult divorce?
Are you losing the close relationship that you once had with your child because they’ve been alienated from you by friends, family, politics, the educational system or culture?
Are issues like abortion, gender identification, sexuality, illegal immigration, and other political and social ideology coming between you and your child?
Is the God that created the family able and willing to bring healing to fractured and damaged relationships? The answer is a resounding yes!
God has revealed all that we need to know about ourselves, our families and relationships in His word. But it’s up to us to know what His word says, and then to live the way scripture tells us that He would have us live.
In most situations healing and restoration will need His divine intervention but also requires you to partner with Him to achieve the goal. It isn’t that God needs our help. But He has given us detailed instructions in the bible about how to be in a right relationship with Him, and principles and commandments about how to live. Not living according to His word has consequences, as an individual, a culture and a nation.
We Are in a Battle
Regardless of why you came to Keeping Families Connected, it’s our hope and prayer that you will leave equipped, encouraged and empowered for the battle ahead. And yes, I said battle. Because whether you realize it or not, we are in a raging spiritual and cultural battle.
And the target of the attack is you and your family.
Not a very comforting thought, is it? But true, nonetheless.
Why do I share such a sobering reality? Wouldn’t it be easier and more palatable for you if I just told you to work hard, make a few changes, and everything would be fine? Sure. But a half-truth isn’t really the truth, is it? And more importantly, it isn’t very effective either.
Know Your Enemy
Until you realize the destructive power and strategies of the enemy you’re facing, you won’t be willing or able to make the changes necessary to overcome him.
1 Peter 5:8 says, “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”
More about our enemy. Below is how Jesus responded to His critics refusing to believe in His deity and what God had revealed in His word about Him as the promised Messiah.
John 8:44 “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
In the verse above, Jesus said that satan is a murderer and a liar. And those that follow him and promote his lies are fulfilling his desires. Keep this in mind as it pertains to your situation. Anything that you or your children believe that opposes God and His word is a lie. And believing these lies will always lead to death and destruction.
Overcoming the Enemy
So how does God tell us to deal with that enemy and threat?
Ephesians 6:10-13 says, “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”
2 Timothy 1:7 states, “For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.”
There are many other scriptures that describe the battle that we face today but God makes it very clear that the stakes are high, and the battle is intense. He also makes it clear that we can’t overcome the enemy without Him.
Why We Help Others
Rick and Barb Nischalke co-founded Keeping Families Connected in 2008. We are followers of Jesus Christ, and we want to do everything possible to help others keep their marriages and families together.
In 1997 Rick went through a horrible divorce that shattered his family and finances. According to a child psychologist assigned to his case, his sons were subjected to severe parental alienation tactics by their mother. Consequently, he lost all contact with his sons in 1999. They were ages 4 and 7 at the time. He has not heard from them since.
Effective brainwashing (or programing) can result in parental alienation, indoctrination to change core beliefs, and initiating and fueling gender and sexual confusion.
We started out ministering to families experiencing divorce and parental alienation. The devastation caused by those two issues continues to tear families apart. But recently we’ve felt called to aid the huge number of families experiencing damage caused by indoctrination and gender and sexual confusion as well.
How Keeping Families Connected Can Help
While there are no easy answers or simple solutions to most of life’s complex challenges, this site is designed to bring you hope and tangible strategies to address and overcome some of life’s most painful and powerful threats to your family.
Regardless of your specific situation, Keeping Families Connected offers powerful and insightful resources to help you understand and overcome internal and external threats to your family, with the goal of preserving or restoring strained family relationships.
Here’s a brief overview of how we can help you.
- The Discovery Phase
This is your starting point. You can’t control or change others, but you can improve yourself. Regardless of what’s dividing your family, educate and empower yourself to accurately assess the threats to your family and develop a plan of action to eliminate them. - Personal Growth
Gain valuable insight into yourself and those around you. Learn how to be a better person, spouse or parent. Honestly assess your faith and gain insight and tools to grow deeper in your relationship with God. Our podcast is amazing! - Marriage Resources
Proven ways to strengthen or save your marriage. Learn the most common threats to a good marriage and how to address them. Topics include communication and conflict resolution skills, finances, faith, forgiveness, breaking destructive cycles and much more! - Divorce Advice
Divorce should always be a last resort. When divorce is unavoidable, learn how to protect yourself, your children, and assets; while minimizing the cost, conflict, and damage to your family. - Protect and Reconnect with Your Child
We have amazing resources for any parent wanting to improve their relationship with their child. Especially those relationships where brainwashing, and differing cultural, religious and political views are causing division in the family. - Parental Alienation
A clinical term describing one parent turning their child against the other. Unfortunately, PA is a common pattern of escalation in a divorce involving children. This form of abuse can have long term consequences if not identified and addressed early in the process. - Indoctrination
Protect your child from indoctrination which assaults the traditional beliefs and values that you’ve taught them. This form of brainwashing can cause irreparable harm to your child and family. Learn to communicate with a child that has been programed to see you as inferior, or worse yet as the enemy, without creating conflict. - Gender and Sexual Confusion
This subject is unavoidable in today’s world. And that is by design. Help your child sort through the cultural and political rhetoric and agenda designed to promote and take advantage of gender and sexual confusion.
We suggest going to the Discovery Phase page first. Once you’ve reviewed that, go to the section you want to focus on whether that’s Marriage, Divorce, or Reconnecting and Protecting your children.
We also have a section on grandparenting. Grandparents play an important role in protecting, strengthening and nurturing their grandchildren. Grandparents should go straight to the Grandparents page.
Keeping Families Connected is committed to bringing you the best resources possible to help you to protect, strengthen and nurture your family despite the challenges that this life brings.
