COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT DAY
Come Join in the fun, laughter, and
learning!
DATE: Cost
TIME Child
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LOCATION
Downstairs in the Holy Family Room
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Growing Marriage , presented by Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the best-selling Five Love Languages. Couples will benefit from
5 practical sessions presented on DVD.
This will not be
a formal, dry, marriage enrichment day - it's a time of fun, laughter, and discovery
to help you build the love relationship of your dreams. You'll get solutions you can use. With
biblical advice and a healthy dose of laughter, Dr. Chapman will give
you valuable tips to break unhealthy patterns and to choose steps to
develop a God-honoring, happy marriage.
Couples will
benefit from 5 sessions addressing such topics as: communication
differences, dealing with criticism, understanding love "languages",
and making sex mutually fulfilling. Join us for a day that will be a
highlight for your marriage!
A Growing Marriage, with Dr. Gary Chapman live!
5
Sessions Overview
Communication 101 (Session One)
Honest and healthy
communication is essential to a thriving marriage. Discover your own
tendency to be a “babbling brook” or a “dead sea” and how to deal with its
implications. Hear Dr. Gary Chapman present memorable anecdotes that
drive home his practical advice that any couple can use to enhance their
communication.
Understanding and Expressing Love
(Session Two)
What should couples do when those
exciting feelings of love seem to be long gone? Learning your spouse’s
“love language” and choosing to act out of love are the steps to renewing your
relationship. Dr. Chapman explains how to rekindle those emotions with some
easy strategies that couples can utilize to express love to their spouses and
refill the empty “love tank” in each of them.
Initiating Positive Change (Session
Three)
Dr. Chapman has a word to both wives
and husbands in this session, as he demonstrates how the model of the Godhead
is the key to thriving marriages. While stressing the value and
significance of both partners, he will help couples gain clarity in their quest
toward a unified, God-honoring marriage. You’ll receive advice on how to
handle strong disagreements, power struggles and poor decisions.
Making Sex a Mutual Joy (Session Four)
We may giggle or avoid the
subject, but there is no denying that God created sex and designed it as a
powerful forum for loving your spouse. What better place to address
misconceptions, talk about difficulties and explain God’s intention for sex
than in a biblical seminar with Dr. Chapman, who has over 30 years experience
in marital counseling and can candidly focus on this important issue?
How To Share the Things that Bug You
(Session Five)
When the differences within your
marriage rear their ugly head, how do you process them without damaging your
mate? In this session, Dr. Chapman will teach you ways to lovingly
accept your spouse while letting your voice be heard. Learn the delicate
art of constructive criticism and the emancipation of laughter with your
spouse.