Learn to Help Couples in OC
Filed under: Biblical Principles, Communication, Conflict, Dating, Divorce, Engaged, Events, Marriage, Marriage Ministries, Premarital Counseling
Register by September 20th and S-A-V-E!
Learn to help couples identify their strengths and growth areas in categories such as Communication, Conflict Resolution, Spiritual Beliefs, and Financial Management. The PREPARE/ENRICH Facilitator Certification Workshop is designed to help facilitators learn how to administer PREPARE/ENRICH and provide feedback to premarital and married couples using six core and over 20 supplemental exercises.
October 30, 2010
Saturday, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Seminar Director: Dr. Debi Smith
Hosted by: Cornerstone & Placentia United Methodist Churches
2050 Valencia Avenue
Placentia, CA 92870
Becoming a Marriage Mentor
New beginnings are challenging, exhilarating, and often times hard. Engaged couples and newlyweds experience great joy and excitement, as well as surprises and pressures. Have you ever thought about how your experience as a married couple could help an engaged or newlywed couple?
In a caring effort to encourage and support these couples, OC Christian Counseling is beginning a marriage mentoring program. You might wonder, “What is marriage mentoring?” It is where a seasoned, healthy couple who has a strong marriage volunteers to walk alongside a new couple and to nurture and encourage them to build a thriving strong marriage.
Did you know that fewer than 35% of couples getting married today do any kind of premarital preparation? Forty percent of all divorces happen within the first 4 years of marriage. Marriage mentoring is proven to be of great value in helping couples get off to a good start in marriage.
Here are some comments from couples who have had marriage mentors:
“We feel so blessed to have a mentor couple, and most of all, to have them as friends. We’ll never be able to thank them enough for all that they’ve done.”
“Our mentor couple was warm and caring, which made it comfortable for us to share and learn more about ourselves.”
“We learned some very essential communication techniques that have significantly improved our relationship. We would recommend marriage mentoring to any couple whether they are engaged or newly married.”
Which couples make the best mentors? Mentor Couples have good marriages—not perfect or trouble-free marriages. Mentor Couples have experience in building a life-long partnership and are willing to share their efforts—not couples who are professional counselors or marriage experts. Mentor Couples are warm, genuine, approachable, and empathetic. Mentor Couples have a desire to support couples who are navigating new beginnings.
We invite you to attend an informational meeting about this new and vital marriage mentoring program. By attending, you will not be committing, you will be merely learning and asking questions. Please plan to attend one of the two information sessions offered:
| Date: January 30, 2010 Day: Saturday Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Location: Garden Grove Office Cost: FREE |
Date: February 3, 2010 Day: Wednesday Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm Location: Garden Grove Office Cost: FREE |
We hope you will join us. Just click here or call 800-705-6223 to reserve your place.
Sincerely,
Dr. Debi Smith, Executive Director
OC Christian Counseling
Questions? Call 800-705-6223
We’re here to help.
Marriage Intensive
The Marriage Intensive uses the same powerful principles as other NIM Marriage Counseling Programs, yet is perfectly designed to address special circumstances. It also allows for more scheduling flexibility for the couple as they meet privately with two of NIM’s marriage counselors over a period of two days at the National Institute of Marriage in Branson, MO.
- Additional pre-assessment.
- Two days of exclusive marriage counseling
- Two nights lodging and two breakfasts, two lunches, and one dinner for each individual
- Approximately 15 hours with NIM’s marriage counselors
- A participant manual and other follow up services
Looking for a Speaker?
Filed under: Dating, Divorce, Engaged, Events, Marriage, Marriage Ministries, Relationship Patterns
OC Christian Couples provides Marriage Education classes and seminars to the Christian community. Dr. Smith offers couples counseling and is available to speak to churches and community groups on the following topics:
How to Tell If You’ve Found Your Soul Mate (Dating 101)
Understanding Your Gender Differences
The Role of Emotions in Intimate Relationships
Keys to Living Happily Ever After
What Predicts Divorce & What to Do About It
For details or to schedule a presentation, please call 714.865.2164 or send an email message. We look forward to hearing from you!
Ready for Love
Ready for Love for Singles & Solos (RFL)
This one-day class for singles, provides the secrets to building positive relationships and creating lasting love. By the end of the day, you’ll be on your way to winning people over, learning how to develop intimacy with a significant partner, and forming better communication with your boss, co-workers, family, and friends. You’ll also learn about boundaries for emotional safety and how to problem solve the “sticky situations” of life in such as way that both sides win.
See our calendar for upcoming and current classes.
$20 per person
PURCHASE
Secrets to Love: A Journey to Find the Happily Ever After
Filed under: Communication, Conflict, Events, Gender Differences, Marriage, Marriage Ministries
Orange County Christian Counseling is pleased to offer your church, ministry, or small group the opportunity to see this award-winning film about the joys and challenges of marriage.
Our professionally trained staff will be available to introduce the film, as well as to engage attendees in a meaningful discussion following the presentation. This is a great way to launch a marriage ministry or marriage education program.*
Cost: FREE
Secrets to Love is a compelling documentary about relationships, marriage, and, of course, love. For just over an hour, we hitch a ride with a recent divorcee on her journey to find answers to the questions many of us ask:
- How do couples get to “happily ever after”?
- Why is love so complicated?
- What, if anything, can couples do to ensure their marriage lasts a lifetime?
Interviews with real-life couples and a wide range of relationship experts allow Secrets to Love to navigate swiftly through many intriguiing and thought-provoking issues related to love and marriage.
Click here to view the trailer.
An Evening Together
Celebrating Marriage
Saturday, the Seventh of February,
Two Thousand and Nine
five o’clock to ten o’clock
Crystal Cathedral
12141 Lewis Street
Garden Grove, California
Marriage Resource Fair (free)
five o’clock
Marriage Renewal in the Crystal Cathedral
six o’clock
Elegant Dinner
six-thirty to ten o’clock
Hors-d’Oeuvres in the Courtyard
Candlelight Dining and
Dancing in the Arboretum
Celebrity Speaker: Dr. John Townsend
$100 a couple or table of eight for $400
Cocktail Attire
Information call 949-752-2888
Purchase tickets online, or make your check out to RRF and mail it to:
Relationship Research Foundation, Inc.
1400 Bristol St. North, Suite 100
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction
With today’s rampant availability of Internet pornography, sexual addiction has become a national epidemic that affects up to 10 percent of Christians. As devastating as any drug habit, it brings heartbreak and despair to those it entangles. But there is help for men and women caught in sexual addiction’s downward spiral.
This book offers a path that leads beyond compulsive thoughts and behaviors to healing and transformation. Sensitive to the shame of sexual addiction without minimizing its sinfulness, Dr. Mark Laaser traces the roots of the problem, discusses its patterns and impact, and maps out a biblical approach to self-control and sexual integrity.
Previously titled Faithful and True, this revision includes an all-new section that deals with sexual addiction in the church. Other important changes reflect cultural trends, incorporate current research, and place a greater emphasis on spiritual growth. This book also addresses the unique needs and issues of female sex addicts.
Whether you know someone with a sexual addiction or struggle yourself, Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction points the way to understanding, wholeness, and holiness.
About the Author
Dr. Mark Laaser holds a PhD in religion and psychology from the University of Iowa and an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is an internationally known author and speaker who has written six books including Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction and Talking to Your Kids About Sex. He is also an adjunct faculty member at several graduate schools. He and his wife, Debra, started Faithful and True Ministries to counsel couples healing from sexual addiction.
Dr. Laaser and his wife will be in Southern California on October 25, 2008. More info.
Weekend of Oneness
Weekend of Oneness Marriage and Relationship Conference
Fri, June 20, 7-9:30p
& Sat, June 21, 8:30a-12:45p
Mariners Church Worship Center
Experience a Weekend of Oneness and discover how you can build or prepare for a loving, more intimate marriage – the way God designed it.
Dr. Larry Crabb will help couples from every point on the marriage spectrum explore obstacles that can get in the way of intimacy and teach us how a growing, completely honest relationship with Christ can bring us closer to our spouse.
We encourage you to consider this Weekend of Oneness, wherever you are on your marriage journey:
- Singles thinking about marriage
- Engaged couples
- Newlyweds wanting to build a firm foundation
- Married couples seeking to enrich their marriage
- Couples seeking healing in their marriage whether together, separated or divorced
Register online
$25pp by June 3, then $35
Limited childcare for infants through 5-years-old available for $30/child
by June 3
Infoline, 949.854.7030 x572
Contact: Bruce for questions
OC Churches Unite to Save Marriage
The following is from The Orange County Register updated 5:00 p.m. PT, Tues., May. 20, 2008
Couples wanting to strengthen their relationships will get to take marriage classes and attend counseling at one of about 120 Orange County churches, after several local pastors vowed to help people improve marriage skills.
Nearly 100 pastors of several denominations gathered at the Eastside Christian Church to sign a pact asking them to emphasize the importance of marriage education in their congregations.
The idea: when husbands and wives are in healthy relationships, they are less likely to divorce, and they make better parents, said John Erwin (pictured above), project director for the Orange County Marriage Education Initiative. Read more.
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