10/22/2026
🚨 The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the answer! Pray for your friends!
And for Teenagers in East Tennessee and invite them to your local church 🗣️
📈 East Tennessee reflects a bad statewide trend over four decades. Family structure has shifted markedly, with about one in three Tennessee households with children (33.19%, or 240,109 families) now single parent homes, nearly 75% headed by single mothers, and East Tennessee communities, especially economically stressed urban and rural pockets mirror this pattern.
💔Tennessee's divorce rate fell from 6.5 per 1,000 in 1990 to 2.9 in 2023, but alongside a dramatic drop in marriage rates, meaning fewer families form and those that do are more likely to dissolve, while Tennessee has consistently ranked above average for divorce. In East Tennessee the consequences are visible. One local county where we ran current statistics we found that 69% of female headed single parent households fall below the ALICE financial survival threshold.
"Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain." Psalm 127:1 (ESV)📉
