Be the church couples call first.
The book newlyweds in your city keep and open every time a new question comes up, with your church's name on the cover and your pastor's letter inside.
Ready now · Fort Myers edition available · new cities about 4 weeks
Love is the start. A home takes wisdom.
The license, a new name, a shared budget, taxes, insurance, a first home, in-laws, holidays, conflict. Couples want to get it right, and most never had anyone show them how.
Building a Home Together gives them practical steps for your state and wise counsel for the heart. Your church is there for the conversations that matter, on the cover and in the letter.
Building a Home Together
A real 6×9 book with a full-color cover and black-and-white pages designed to be kept. Families open it again every time a new need comes up, and your church is there every time.
- 1Making It Official
- 2Money as a Team
- 3Protecting Each Other
- 4Your First Home
- 5Taxes as a Couple
- 6Sharing the Load
- 7Talking, Listening and Making Up
- 8Staying Close
- 9Two Families, One Home
- 10Growing Your Family
- 11When Storms Come
- 12A Home Built on Something Solid
Plus Good News for Your Home, a "You're Invited" card from your church, and chapter 13: your local directory with 52 dates in your county, your church first. Fort Myers edition shown.
Your city's book, with your church on the cover.
Every edition is researched for your city and verified with official sources before it prints. Nothing with your church's name prints until you approve it.
- Your state's marriage license and name-change rules
- County offices and local resources
- Counselors, classes and mentors near you
- Housing and first-home programs in your area
- Your pastor's letter and your church featured inside
- Weddings your church celebrates
- Premarital and marriage classes
- Couples' events and small groups
- Community and county clerk offices
Choose how many families you want to reach
The outcome is families who know your church and come back to it. The book is already planned, customized for your city, presented by your church and placed through your outreach.
- "A gift from" your church, on the cover of every copy
- A welcome letter from your pastor, written with you
- Your church featured in the local directory
- Research and verification for your city
- Reorders at the same pack prices
Copies arrive about 4 weeks after you approve your cover and letter, in any city.
The Page-by-Page Promise
Nothing with your church's name prints until you have read and approved it.
The Delivery Promise
If your copies don't arrive within 30 days of your approval, you receive a full refund.
Payment
50% reserves your edition; the rest is due when you approve your cover and letter. It is a partnership: your families receive their books, and your church helps keep a missionary family in the field. Your church receives a receipt for every payment.
Before you begin
Is it only for married couples?
It is written for newlyweds and for couples starting a life together, and it gently invites every couple to build their home on a strong foundation.
Does it replace premarital counseling?
No. It supports it, and it invites couples to talk with your pastor or a counselor.
Is it available for our city?
The Fort Myers edition is written. We customize it for any US city: about 4 weeks after you approve your cover and letter.
Is the book free for the people who receive it?
Yes. Your church gives it as a gift. Readers never pay, never sign up and never share personal information to receive a copy.
Where does our church's payment go?
It covers the research, writing, printing and delivery of your books, and it also supports Sergio and Holly Alvarado's ministry in the field. Your church receives a receipt for every payment.
How much work is this for our church?
One short call, one approval of your cover and letter, and the joy of placing the books. We handle research, writing, design and printing.
Get the materials in your inbox
The sample chapter, the presentation for your team or board, and the packs and prices for Building a Home Together. We will follow up personally.
Custom books for churches
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2701 Cleveland Ave, Suite 200, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Chapter & City is a ministry of Sergio and Holly Alvarado, missionaries who write and localize books that churches give to the people their city is welcoming. Every church that gives a Chapter & City book also partners with their ministry and helps keep them in the field.
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