| FRIDAY SESSION I - 9:00am-10:00am |
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Blended families
Modern families are often blends of children from previous relationships. The challenges of building a close, spiritual family in this setting are great. We will learn the principles of how to draw close to one another and build unity in the midst of these often-complicated situations. |
Priestly &Marylin Reaves; Ed & Dr. Debra Anton
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Adoptive families
Parents adopt with high hopes and dreams and often find that there underlying issues that can make it difficult to know how to love, nurture and discipline a child in this situation. This class will provide real-world and real-life perspective and solutions. |
Mohan & Helen Nanjundan; Jeff & Roberta Balsam; Jennifer Radl
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Media and Technology: The Hidden Parent
Our children have access to a world of technology that most of us find unfamiliar. The potential for good or for evil is immense. What do we need to know, and how can we as parents embrace technology without it destroying or damaging our children in the process? |
Dave Pocta; Michael & Kristen Lamb |
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Parenting Special Needs Children
Some children come into the world with unique emotional and physical challenges. These scenarios can be confusing, exhausting, and discouraging. We will hear from parents who have overcome in situations that seemed at times beyond hope or help. |
Dave &Monica Noronha; John and Sylvia Reus |
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Honoring and Caring for Aging Parents
As our parents age, we find ourselves facing new responsibilities and decisions. Our Bibilical convictions can also be tested during this time. This class will discuss some of the challenges and solutions for honoring and caring for our parents.
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Roger and Marcia Lamb & JP and Pat Tynes |
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Talking about Sexuality with your Children
The world around us is increasingly and overtly sexual. Our kids are deluged with wrong messages and poor examples. How can we as parents teach our young children about the sacred and beautiful gift of sexuality? When do we start, and how do we proceed? |
Ron & Linda Brumley; Teck & Patrice Lee |
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Age Appropriate Discipline
Children grow and change rapidly, and the parenting techniques that worked last year (or last month!) seem outmoded today. What is appropriate for a toddler does not work for an elementary school age child, or a teen. We need help, and this class will give it. |
Drs. Mike & Mary Sharpiro; Kevin & Melissa Miller |
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Understanding Ourselves as We Understand Our Children
Our children may be very different from us (and from one another) in their temperament. The better we understand ourselves (why we do the things we do and react the ways we do) the better able we are to understand and connect with our children. This class will help us understand the ways our “schemas” affect our parenting. |
Mike & Laura Fix; Vincent & Jayne Sim |
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Children Not Yet Choosing God
Parents long for their kids to come to faith more than they wish for anything else, but our children may be slow to come around. Is it our fault? What is the limit of our responsibility? What do we need to do and not do, to say and not say? Can we remain in joy and faith with this kind of care resting heavily on our hearts?
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John & Nancy Mannel; Dan & Mary Allison |
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Resolving Family Conflict
Conflict happens in every family. It can be destructive, or it can provide opportunities for family members to grow in speaking the truth in love to one another and for practicing humility and forgiveness. This class will explore practical Biblical methods for handling family conflicts in ways that allow us to grow closer to God and one another.
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Walter & Kim Evans; Steve & Tricia Staten |
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Growing in Our Marriage
This class will discuss ways to build and keep a more spiritual marriage, as well as how to overcome common distratctions that can hinder our growth together.
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Frank & Erica Kim |
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Building Family Traditions and Ties
Modern families often lack the solid routine, rhythm, and habits that form the fabric that makes them close. We tend to pass like ships in the night, without the rich traditions and practices that make us real “family.” What can we do to build a family that is uniquely “us”? |
Bill & Sally Hooper; Turner & Elizabeth Sinn |
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Weathering the Storms
Jesus said that we would live abundantly, but he never promised us an existence free from trials. Some of us have experienced loss that has torn at the very core of our heart and faith. How can we come through with our hearts and hope still strong? |
Scott & Lynne Green; Greg & Teresa Jackson |
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Building a Spiritual Core
Without spirituality, we are just religious or church-going people. Raising kids “in the church” can be a real challenge as we seek to place a genuine connection with God in our families – and not just go through the motions. Kids know if it is real or just performance. This class will help us to make and keep it spiritual – really from God, from the inside out. |
Joe & Annie Silipo; Jimmy & Anita Allen |
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Understanding Emotional, Social Development
Kids go through immense changes as they mature. Just as soon as we think we have them figured out, they hit the next stage, and what we have been doing no longer works. How can we be ready for and adapt to the changes and adapt our parenting so as to be effective in every season of development?
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Phil & Kris Aresenault; Lewis & Dr. Tosan Livingstone |
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Creative Family Devos
We all want to make the Living Word come alive and be real to our kids. As we have family devotions, we don’t want to bore them, to go over their heads, or to be irrelevant. How can we make "the greatest story ever told" be just that in the teaching we do in our homes? |
Tom & Lori Zeigler; Kevin & Elizabeth Thompson
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| FRIDAY SESSION II - 10:30am-12:00pm |
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GENERAL SESSION: Forging More, Better, and Deeper Relationships
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Todd Asaad |
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Parents with Children 0-6years old
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Sam & Geri Laing & their adult children |
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Parents with Elementary Age Kids (7-12)
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John & Karen Louis & their children |
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Parents with Teenagers
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Wyndham & Jeanie Shaw & their adult children |
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Empty Nesters and Parents with Adult Children
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Al & Gloria Baird & their adult children |
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Single Parenting, Partnering with God
We have clear biblical instruction on how to parent in the ideal situation of a two-parent team. What about those circumstances where a mother or father has to go it alone? The stress of time constraints along with emotional and spiritual weariness can be overwhelming. How can we cope, and more than that, come through with a strong family in a single parent lifestyle? |
Corey Stuck & Lin Beatty |
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TalkEnglish: Evangelize the World through Conversational English
Written by disciples, TalkEnglish is a FREE online Bible-based conversational English program and evangelism tool to help English-speaking Christians locally and abroad reach all nations with the Gospel. Learn how to make disciples in your local community, plant international churches, and help small churches to grow using TalkEnglish (www.talkenglishprogram.com)
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Ted & Mary Snow |
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Emotional Intimacy in Marriage
The attitude of our hearts towards God and each other is key to having marriages filled with passion, closeness and intimacy. The closeness we are meant to enjoy can be lost in the busyness of life; our passion can be lost in taking each other for granted. How can we build and keep the closeness, and make it even deeper, so we will not become “roommates” or even worse, strangers.
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Jeff & Florence Schachinger (Connecticut, USA); Adam & Joy Bodzioch (San Francisco, USA) |
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| FRIDAY SESSION III - 2:00pm-3:00pm |
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Effective Small Group Outreach
Many, if not most of us, were first introducted to the Bible in a small group setting. This class will help us gain fresh vision for using our homes and small groups to reach our neighbors, workmates and friends.
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Duncan & Lisa Comrie; Martin & Carmen Bently |
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Reaching Out To and Through Our Families
Our families are a blessing from God. How can we use our families and our family life to reach others, particularyly within our extended families?
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Jermain & Stephanie Peacock; Dana & Gingerla Perkins; Hilario & Lucia Rodriguez |
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Adventures in Ministry
Who says radical discipleship is only for singles, teens or college students? We need to push the limits, get outside the norm, and do some radical, fun, crazy stuff as families! What are some opportunities available for us? What are some things other families have done? What difference has it made for them?
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Randy & Jan Jordan; Guy & Loretta Berndt; Kelcy & JaLaine Hahn |
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Helping Our Teenagers Find God
What are the keys to reaching our teens for Jesus? How can we connect, communicate, convict and inspire them to see the real Jesus and want to follow him?
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Jeff & Jennifer Rorabaugh; Ruben & Marina De Anda |
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Winning Seniors
Some of God’s greatest heroes were in their autumn years when He called them and used them in amazing ways. How can we reach the burgeoning older generation? What message will resonate with them? What potential do they have? This class will inspire us that the fields are “ripe for harvest” in this age group, and equip us to be effective as laborers in the harvest field.
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Clarence & Laura Webster; Bill & Sally Hooper; John & Eve Gaines |
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Bearing Fruit In All Seasons
We don’t want to just stay faithful - we want to be fruitful! We want to make a difference for God! We want to give away to others the faith that has saved and transformed us. How can we continually do that in each of life’s seasons?
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Randy & Kay McKean (Northern Virginia, USA); Harliem & Vania Salim (Jakarta, Indonesia) |
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Our Homes: Havens for Hospitality
Hospitality in our busy world is often a lost art. Our marriages can too easily become inward focused and consumed with our personal needs and the cares of life. This class will focus on ways to help our marriages and families become a light to the world by opening our homes to those around us with warm, caring, hospitality.
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Larry & Mary Lou Craig (New York, USA); John & Pat Brush (South Florida, USA); Doug & Joanne Weber (Los Angeles, USA) |
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