Would you like to run a course in your area? Benefit from 15 years of Keith & Sarah Condie’s experience.
Building A Safe & Strong Marriage provides you with a Facilitators Workbook that will give you the basis to run a successful marriage course.
We have developed a detailed Facilitator’s Manual so that Building a Safe & Strong Marriage can be run for small groups in someone’s home or for larger groups at church. You don’t need to be a marriage expert, you just need to be confident presenting in front of a group, and enthusiastic about supporting marriages. Ideally, it would be great to have a married couple both facilitate together.
You will find help on our website with promoting the course in your church and in your local community. The Manual also provides many tips on how to run the course: from setting up the space to timetables for evening or weekend-intensive sessions, it even provides you with the words to say as you introduce and lead each session.
If you are committed to supporting marriages, Building a Safe & Strong Marriage is reasonably easy to run.
Should we run this over a weekend or over five weeks?
Depending on your facilitators and your church calendar, you can do either. Both work really well. The benefit of running the course over five weeks is that you are helping couples begin to invest time into their relationship and form a new habit of setting aside a night a week to hang out together.
Many couples drift apart because they stop spending time together. If couples can set aside one night a week for five weeks, this helps them begin a habit that they can build on after the course.
In the last few weeks, as I’ve chatted with a number of women, I’ve seen how adept they are at juggling and pivoting. But we have many balls to juggle in life. Our plans go awry, and those balls just start tumbling. And this is when we feel the weariness and stress and think, ‘I can’t keep doing this.’
The question for us as pastoral carers is whether Jesus saw any other significance in laying down his life for the sheep. And consequently, is there a type of sacrifice which Jesus calls his followers in pastoral care to make?
The God of all grace is not remote and he doesn’t simply delegate to others. He is willing, so to speak, to get his hands dirty.
This was a moment of grace, during an ordinary routine, given to me by our creator God. Pumpkins had given me a new song to sing.
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