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 | Spiritual Direction: Spiritual direction helps us learn how to live in | |
| peace, with compassion, promoting justice as a trained, experienced, trustworthy person listens to our stories. You will receive encouragement for healthy decision making and cultivate your own ability to discern God's presence in your life. After several initial sessions, direction is typically scheduled once a month. |
| Pastoral Counseling: Are you emotionally fatigued? You don't know | |
| who to talk to? If you can't tell a friend or family, or they're tired too, come talk through your concerns in a confidential setting. |
| Premarital Preparation: You might think you know each other, but by | |
| using the Prepare/Enrich Inventory, couples can discover their strengths and areas for needed growth as they consider marriage regardless of age or past experience. |
| Anger Management: 6 sessions can help you begin understanding your | |
| anger and its sources, controlling your emotions, identifying the related health concerns and learning new ways of interacting. |
| Conflict Resolution: Locked into conflict? Concerned about who | |
| makes the first move? Need practical tools for home and work? Begin to understand other opinions and start resolving issues in a 3 hour workshop. |
| Forgiveness?: Who should forgive whom? Do you need to forget? How | |
| long should this take? Is this for your own benefit? What are the social and ethical results? |
| Parenting: Surviving or thriving through the stages of your child's life? | |
| With your peers you can find helpful tools and encouragement to live and laugh again in your family. |
| Grief Recovery: Are you feeling lost from a loved one, friends, or life | |
| itself? There are others who are experiencing the same feelings. Work with a group can bring peace and strength. Some issues considered are normal expressions of grief, loneliness and depression, failure to grieve and grief gone wrong, goals, dreams, and family systems, moving, suicide, sudden death, miscarriages, stillbirths, abortion, and AIDS.. |
| Premarital Preparation: You might think you know each other, but by | |
| using the Prepare/Enrich Inventory, couples can discover their strengths and areas for needed growth as they consider marriage regardless of age or past experience |
| Support Groups: 3-8 women or men meet for 6 sessions to provide | |
| support for each other as they recover from family violence and sexual abuse. |
| Study Groups: 5-15 people, meeting for at least 6 sessions, to study | |
| and develop an appropriate response to family violence and sexual abuse. |
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| Care Teams: Are you concerned about someone living with Alzheimers, | |
| AIDS, a special needs child or some other long term special care need? If your struggle is likely to last a year or more, organization and training can be provided to assist in the formation of small service groups who work together to offer practical, emotional, and spiritual support to individuals and families. |
| Support Groups: Short-term groups that choose to continue to meet | |
| monthly or bi-monthly to continue in their support for each other as they recover. |
| Study Groups: An extension of the short-term groups. |
| Spiritual Direction: Spiritual direction helps us learn how to live in | |
| peace, with compassion, promoting justice as a trained, experienced, trustworthy person listens to our stories. You will receive encouragement for healthy decision making and cultivate your own ability to discern God's presence in your life. After several initial sessions, direction is typically scheduled once a month. |
| Materials: From our products page you can order copies of a brochure | |
| that includes information about the symptoms of abuse and how to help a friend in an abusive relationship. It also includes a checklist of abusive behaviors and a safety plan for those who have found themselves in danger. Take a pro-active part in providing this information to those who may be silently suffering. |
| Awareness Training: Workshop for staff members, elders, deacons, | |
| Stephen Ministers, etc. providing insight and appropriate responses to family violence and sexual abuse. |