About the Author

Linda Ranson Jacobs is the senior writer and content developer for DC4K. She has written numerous articles for pastors and children’s pastors about caring for single-parent families and about how to provide nuanced care to children who have behavioral issues and have faced life traumas, such as fractured families and the deaths of family members. She contributes to many podcasts, blogs, and periodicals, including Kids & Divorce, (blog.dc4k.org), Hope4HurtingKids.com, BiblicalParenting.org, Chained No More radio show, Children’s Ministry Magazine, and KidzMatter Magazine.

Linda is a pioneering leader in the areas of children and divorce and of single-parent families’ needs. Both divorced and widowed, as a single mom Linda learned firsthand the emotional and support needs of broken families and developed a passion to help hurting families. As a children’s ministry director, children’s program developer, speaker, author, trainer, and therapeutic child care center owner, Linda has assisted countless single-parent families.

In 2004, Linda created and developed the DivorceCare for Kids (DC4K) program, a ministry tool designed to bring healing, comfort, and coping and communication skills to the children of divorce. For eight years, she served as Church Initiative’s DC4K executive director and is now the Church Initiative ambassador and serves on the editorial team with Church Initiative. She spreads the word about DC4K and teaches ministry leaders how to create a family-friendly church for single parents and their children, as well as how to help kids who have challenging behaviors.