AMFM Conference Registration Form

Cancellations and Refunds: Requests for refunds must be made in writing (mailed, emailed or faxed) and received by March 31, 2006, and are subject to a $50.00 processing fee.

Online conference registration will be CLOSED on Wednesday, April 12, 2006. To register for the conference after the closing date, please click here to print the registration form and bring it (along with the appropriate fees) to the conference location prior to attending your desired workshops. You will be manually registered at the AMFM registration counter and be issued the proper credentials allowing you to attend the conference.

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* To qualify: you must be registered in a full-time degree program in an institution of higher learning. Valid student ID must be presented at the conference. Spring 2006 graduates qualify.

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Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided each day at the conference with your registration.
Step 3 - Select Workshops.
Pre Conference Session  Wednesday    9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
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Register Working With Difficult Couples: Using the Soul Healing Love Model
Learn how to teach effective communication tools to difficult, highly reactive couples. These techniques bring awareness and insight about past soul wounds, encourage empathy, build trust, and foster forgiveness in marriage and family relationships. 		P1001
Tom Rodgers Ph.D. & Beverly Rodgers Ph.D.
Register The Church a Deliberate Family Forming Center - Changing the Paradigm
America needs a reformation through God's love and grace in Jesus Christ. The reformation will not come through today's Christian church alone. It will only come through a partnership with homes and churches in passing on the faith in Jesus to the third and fourth generations. This Pre-Conference Workshop will shape the vision of leaders and impart practical information for those who wish for thier church to grow strong Christian homes and marriages. The session will sound the alarm and ready participants' hearts and minds to embrace a philosophy and strategy that is home centered church supported. 		P1002
Ben Freudenburg M.A.
Register Developing a Stepfamily Ministry in the Local Church
By 2010 there will be more stepfamilies in America than any other type of family. This workshop will educate ministry leaders as to the interpersonal dynamics of stepfamilies, provide a rational for community outreach programs, and outline practical ways that churches can minister to stepfamilies. 		P1003
Jeff and Judi Parziale Ph.D. /Ph.D & Ron Deal M.M.F.T.
Register The Single Parent Family-Best Practices of Identifying and Meeting Ministry and Counseling Needs of Single Parents and Their Children
PREPARE/ENRICH Certification equips you to use five couple inventories and six feedback sessions/couple exercises with premarital and marriage couples. Learn to administer the inventories, and interpret the 15 page Computer Report. The feedback process using the six couple exercises will be described and illustrated with DVD examples. 		P1004
Tom and Helen Wheeler  & Brenda Armstrong and Linda Ranson Jacobs 
Register PREPARE/ENRICH-Certification
PREPARE/ENRICH Certification equips you to use five couple inventories and six feedback sessions/couple exercises with premarital and married couples. Learn to administer the inventories, and interpret the 15 page Computer Report. The feedback process using the six couple exerciss will be described and illustrated with DVD examples. 		P1005
Peter Larson Ph.D.
This class has an additional cost of $75
Session 1  Thursday    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
none
Register Creating and Conducting Marriage Enrichment Seminars in Churches and the Community
Creating and Conducting Marriage Enrichment Seminars in Churches and the Community is a seminar for any size church. The ministry of marriage enrichment needs to be an ongoing or continuous ministry conducted by personnel from the local church or community rather than a once a year emphasis. The content, ways in which to engage the participants for maximum learning, methodology, resources to use, and varieties of marriage enrichment models will be the content of this seminar. Participants will learn by actually participating in some of the learning activities of a marriage seminar. 		101
H. Norman Wright M.A.
Register Your Spouse is not Your Problem!
Same argument, different day? Stuck? Want to get unstuck and stay unstuck? We'll show you how! The skills to resolve conflict are vital to the health and success of every marriage. Revolutionize your understanding of conflict and learn why negotiation and compromise are short term fixes that only postpone long term marital fulfillment. 		102
Tony Moore L.P.C. & Kim Moore M.S.W.
Register Leadership Couples--Creating your Team of 2
As ministry leaders or pastors and wives,have you ever wished that you had a joint Big Dream with a teammate where both of you are vital with clearly defined roles? Or, do you often feel as though you and your teammate are in parallel but separate ministries? We will help you articulate your individual as well as joint direction and show how each of you is essential to your team. 		103
Dave Lind M.A. & Dawn Lind M.A.
Register ALERT - Internet Relationships
Online affairs, internet predators, online pornography/cybersex and online harassment have become silent liaisons consuming adults and children. This workshop will equip you with proactive tools for leaders/families and a listing of resources available for support/recovery. 		104
Roger Acton 
Register Transform Your Community's Marriages and Families
Involved in a community-wide effort where churches work together to strenthen marriages and families? Want to be? Learn practical tips, best practices and lessons learned from veterans in community-based marriage efforts. Walk away with a step-by-step plan to unite churches and transform marriages and families in your community. 		105
K. Jason Krafsky  & Julie Baumgardner M.S.
Register When Two Become One: Enhancing Sexual Intimacy in Marriage
Drawing upon his highly-acclaimed book, "When Two Become One", the author provides a detailed explanation of The Lovemaking Cycle, an innovative model that casts a clear and simple vision of Godly sexuality which is extremely helpful in addressing problem areas with couples you may counsel. Free book for all attendees. 		106
Christopher McCluskey M.S.W.
Register Creating Healthy Stepfamilies
There are several key principles that facilitate the development of a healthy stepfamily. This workshop will teach participants these principles and enable them to apply these principles either in working directly with stepfamilies or in designing stepfamily ministry in their local church. 		107
Tom and Helen Wheeler  & Jeff and Judi Parziale Ph.D./Ph.D.
Register Stress, Brain Function & Healing Ministry in Children of Divorce-"How do we handle these out of control kids?"
The Incredible Brain: How behaviors and communication are effected by stress. How the healing process is interrupted by stress induced brain chemistry. Learn specific "do's and don'ts" of appropriate and effective ministry to these kids and their parents. Discover how simple modifications to existing programs and methods of interaction can achieve remarkable results in making your church a place of peace for these families. 		108
Linda Ranson-Jacobs 
Register Visionary Parenting of: Equipping Parents to Disciple their Children
Visionary Parenting: Pastors generally agree that parents are called by God to be the primary spiritual trainers of their children. But is this really happening in your ministry? This workshop is designed to equip you lead the parents of your congregation into their highest calling. 		109
Rob Rienow M.Div.
Register Advanced Family Ministry
So you've mastered the basics and your ministry is up and running. How do you deepen your roots and build a lasting ministry? This workshop will address topics that impact the breadth of your ministry including: Networking Ministries within Your Church; Managing Personal Boundaries & Self-Care; and Systemic Church Dynamics and Family Ministry. 		110
Ron Deal M.M.F.T.
Session 2  Thursday    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
none
Register Breakout: Turning Families that Hurt Into Families That Heal
Learn practical tools designed to heal families, couples and individuals who are in all types of crisis situations. These conflict resolution techniques aid families in which verbal, emotional and physical abuse is present. Case examples of volatile families are used to illustrate the effectiveness of these techniques. 		201
Tom Rodgers Ph.D. & Beverly Rodgers Ph.D.
Register Jump Start the Marriage Ministry in Your Church and Community with 10 Great Dates
Reach the masses with this teach-right-out-of -the-box, husband-friendly, marriage education program. 10 Great Dates received the 2005 Smart Marriage Impact Award as the most used marriage education program. It is used by all denominations and for launching community marriage initiatives around the country. 		202
Dave Arp M.S.S.W. & Claudia Arp 
Register Christian PAIRS
The mission of Christian PAIRS is to teach those attitudes, emotional understandings and behaviors that nurture and sustain healthy relationships. Christian PAIRS is a research based, comprehensive relationship skills program that teaches bonding and emotional literacy skills to youth, singles, engaged, and married adults. 		203
Richard Marks Ph.D.
Register Building Relationships: A Program for Youth (Jr. High and Sr. High)
Building Relationships, teaches Jr. High and Sr. High youth knowledge and skills they need for healthy and satisfying relationshiops with peers, parents, and others. The workshop provides an overview of the content, resources, and teach strategy used in this program, which is based on 25 years of research from PREPARE/ENRICH. 		204
Peter Larson Ph.D.
Register Church Based Counseling 101: Basic Training for People Helpers in the Church
This basic workshop is designed to review and train on the basic skill sets needed by both lay and professional pastoral care providers within the local church. For the novice, this class will present a series of basic skill sets needed to encourage others. For pastors, staff members, and key lay ministry leaders this workshop is a training module that you will be able to take back to your local church to begin training lay counselors. 		205
John Thurman M.Div., M.A.
Register Culitivating Sexually Healthy Churches
What constitutes a sexually healthy church and how do we cultivate such a church in a culture that is saturated with sex? Based on research and experience, this workshop identifies key components of a sexually healthy church and provides practical programming ideas toward this end. 		206
Michael Sytsma Ph.D. & Debbie Neel Ph.D.
Register Adjustment Issues of Children of Divorce and Remarriage
Children of divorce experience emotional, spiritual and physiological changes that affect post-divorce adjustment. Most parents remarry before their children have successfully resolved these issues, making adjustment to remarriage extremely problematic. This workshop will train participants to identify these changes and develop programs in their church to help children and families deal with these issues. 		207
Linda Ranson Jacobs  & Jeff and Judi Parziale Ph.D./Ph.D.
Register Single Parents: Meeting the Top 10 Needs with Real Answers
Little things you do are huge to a struggling single parent. This workshop provides practical, little or no cost ideas for helping single parents. Learn how to move single parents from Crisis Mode to functionality through accurate needs assessment and caring ministry. Presented by Brenda Armstrong, author and developer of numerous books and materials while on staff for Crown Financial Concepts with the late Larry Burkett. 		208
Brenda Armstrong 
Register The Church a Deliberate Family Forming Center--Changing the Paradigm
THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR THOSE WHO DID NOT ATTEND THE PRE SEMINAR CONFERENCE AND WOULD LIKE A SUMMARY OF ITS CONTENTS. This workshop will shape the vision of leaders and impart practical information to shape their church into a family forming center. It includes sounding the alarm and shifting one's thinking toward a home centered church support model. It will take a close look at one's attitudes and values about the home as the center of faith formation and will share with participants practical strategies such as the family friendly tweak, framework, and program models. 		209
Ben Freudenburg M.A.
Register TBA
210
 
Session 3  Thursday    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
none
Register Developing a Ministry to Help Marriages and Families at a Time of Loss and Crises
This workshop covers one of the most neglected areas of concern in our society today--loss and grief education. We are a silent society when it comes to death or any kind of loss or crisis. And these events can disrupt and even destroy marriages and families. Some losses and crises are predictable throughout the Family Life Cycle. But others are invaders. Emphasis will be placed on educating everyone within a congregation to be able to help others as well as preparing for their own personal losses. 		301
H. Norman Wright M.A.
Register Prepare Couples for the Full Marriage Experience
Learn new approaches to transform your pre-marital program, and the couples who participate in it. Receive vital demographics, innovative program strategies, and helpful tools to reach more pre-married couples and give them the best chances to go the distance. 		302
K. Jason Krafsky 
Register Leadership Couples--Leaving Comfort Zone as a Team of 2
As a leader, or as a couple in leadership, are you tired of doing the same old thing? Have you heard a little voice inside saying, "It's time for a change"? Take a risk! Leave your Comfort Zone and pursue what you have been called to do. We will show you how. 		303
Dave and Dawn Lind M.A., M.A. & Tom and Erika Garrow 
Register Helping Couples Break Through the Wall of Conflict
Helping Couples break through the Wall of Conflict: Most couples face the Wall of Conflict with the motive to win rather than resolve the conflict. Destructive patterns are often set; yet couples can learn the skills of breaking through the wall and experience the joy of growing deeper in love...once again! 		304
Terrill Williams B.A. & Dottie Williams B.A.
Register Foundations for a Ministry of Reconciliation
When a marriage is in crisis, where do couples turn? What are some concrete tools for marriages in need of reconciliation? This workshop will provide participants with simple tools and reproducible activities that will help them lay the foundation for a ministry of reconciliation in their own church or ministry setting. Clint and Penny Bragg will also share their own reconciliation story as it applies to the principles covered in the workshop. Find out how God reconciled the Bragg's marriage after a span of eleven years and a distance of over 3,000 miles. 		305
Clint Bragg  & Penny Bragg B.A.
Register "Shame and Abuse: Understanding and Healing a Deadly Legacy"
This presentation offers a biblical and clinical overview of abusive shame. Topics addressed are: characteristics of shame; ways abuse creates shame; the satanic strategy to confuse shame and guilt; principles for victims to overcome toxic shame. 		306
Steve Tracy Ph. D.
Register The Remarriage Solution: Helping Couples Go the Distance
The largest study of remarriage in America (over 50,000 couples) has identified the top qualities of successful remarriages. Whether they begin in later-life or with small stepchildren at home, remarriages are unique and need specific enrichment intervention. This workshop will share results from our study and what churches can do to prevent re-divorce. 		307
Ron Deal M.M.F.T.
Register Effective Single Parent Family Ministry: What Are We Called to Do and How Shall We Do It?
Who are they? What are they? What do they need? What is appropriate? How much will it cost? Learn an effective paradigm of ministry that will meet the needs of a startling large and growing group of fractured families without draining your ministry or financial resources. Presented by Tom & Helen Wheeler, founders of Changing Families Ministries and the Center for Families. 		308
Tom Wheeler  & Helen Wheeler M.Ed., L.P.C., N.C.C.
Register Milestones: Celebrating Key Stages of a Child's Life
Developing strategic collaboration of age specific ministries within your church to outfit families to map spiritual landmarks in the lives of their children so that an intentional heritage of faith is passed on from one generation to the next. Focus spans birth thru Pre-Marriage with an emphasis on Pre-Teen and High School Blessing Retreats. 		309
Ralph Owen 
Register Visionary Parenting of: Equipping Parents to Disciple their Children
Visionary Parenting: Pastors generally agree that parents are called by God to be the primary spiritual trainers of their children. But is this really happening in your ministry? This workshop is designed to equip you lead the parents of your congregation into their highest calling. 		310
Rob Rienow M.Div.
Session 4  Friday    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
none
Register Developing a Ministry to Help Marriages and Families at a Time of Loss and Crises
This session is designed to make participants aware of losses and crisis, couples and families experience through their family life journey. The emphasis will be on educating families and helping them take steps to intervene, resolve and recover. An abundance of resources will be presented so participants can develop their own ongoing model of ministry for church and community. 		401
H. Norman Wright M.A.
Register Reaching Boomers, Finding Mentors with the Second Half of Marriage Program
Help the ever-growing number of baby-boomers/empty nesters reinvent their relationship and make a successful adjustment to marriage in the second half of life. Participants will learn how to surmount the 8 challenges of the empty nest years and how to lead the program in their church--a great resource for finding and training mentors. 		402
Dave Arp M.S.S.W. & Claudia Arp 
Register Crisis in America: Why Singles are Not Marrying and What We Can Do About It
In this workshop pastors, counselors and lay leaders will understand the issues underlying why the singles population in our country is increasing drastically. They will learn the top ten reasons why singles are choosing not to marry and practical, Biblical ways to deal with and resolve these issues so that marriage can again be seen as the sacred convenant God created it to be. 		403
Tom Rodgers Ph.D. & Beverly Rodgers Ph.D.
Register Proven Tools for Marriage Mentors: The PREPARE/ENRICH Mentor Program
Learn how to recruit, screen, train, and supervise Marriage Mentor couples as they work with engaged, newlywed, and distressed married couples. Outcome studies demonstrate the power of equipping mentor couples with the PREPARE/ENRICH and Empowering Couples Programs. 		404
Peter Larson Ph.D.
Register Training Mentors for Distressed Couples
This session focuses on using the nationally recognized and research based Christian PAIRS relationship skills program to train marriage mentors in working with disressed couples and how this process can save bad marriages from divorce and give them tools for connection and intimacy. 		405
Richard Marks Ph. D.
Register Raising Sexually Healthy Children
This workshop raises awareness of what children are facing in Sex Ed programs, peer pressure, dating practices, popular media, and the church. Practical advice is offered on how to protect as well as prepare children from infancy to young adulthood. (*Description advisory: some media content contains offensive language and blacked-out nudity.) 		406
Chris McCluskey M.S.W.
Register Starting and Leading a Stepfamily Support Group
Over half of all stepfamilies end in divorce, and stepfamilies experience more stress than any other family form. Stepfamily members need encouragement, practical information and validation. One source of help is a well-organized stepfamily support group. This workshop will teach participants to start and lead a stepfamily support group. 		407
Jeff Parziale Ph.D. & Judi Parziale Ph.D.
Register Grandparents Parenting Again
Many grandparents, increasingly single or remarried themselves, are experiencing the strain of integrating stressed out children into their households--often at the expense of their own relationships and emotional well-being. Quite often, the parents of these children are involved in substance abuse or other addictions--adding further problems to the equation. The realization quickly sets in that, "We were NEVER their age." Learn how to equip, empower and encourage these desperate folks. 		408
Brenda Armstrong  & Linda Ranson-Jacobs 
Register Creative Teaching Strategies in Marriage & Family Ministry
Family life ministry is about changing lives. But promoting behavioral change in individuals, couples, and family units isn't accomplished by just sharing information. People need to encounter the information so they can internalize it and put it into practice. Come learn fun, engaging, and proven strategies for helping people to have ears to hear. Strategies include use of video clips, learning activities, in-class behavioral coaching, intergenerational classes, small group tasks, and creative uses of Power Point. 		409
Ron Deal M.M.F.T.
Register Healthy Families, Healthy Churches
"As our families go, so go our churches"! In this workshop you will be challenged with a proactive and intentional strategy for a local church to become a vital resource for strengthening families through suport, education, and enrichment across the lifespan. 		410
Kent Choate Ph.D.
Session 5  Friday    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
none
Register Creating and Conducting Marriage Enrichment Seminars in Churches and the Community
This seminar emphasizes local church or community personnel conducting marriage enrichment seminars on an ongoing basis. The content, resources to use, ways in which to engage participants for maximum learning, methodology and teaching approaches, and varieties of enrichmnet models will be presented. 		501
H. Norman Wright M.A
Register Your Spouse is not Your Problem!
Same argument, different day? Stuck? Want to get unstuck and stay unstuck? We'll show you how! The skills to resolve conflict are vital to the health and success of every marriage. Revolutionize your understanding of conflict and learn why negotiation and compromise are short term fixes that only postpone long term marital fulfillment. 		502
Tony Moore L.P.C. & Kim Moore M.S.W.
Register Leadership Couples--Coaching you as a Team of 2
As a pastor and wife or a leadership couple in ministry did you ever wish you had a safe place to share your heart and help you remove things that block your path? You may choose from six trained life coaches to receive coaching as an individual or couple. 		503
Dave and Dawn Lind M.A., M.A. & Winston and Barb Connor, Tom and Erika Garrow 
Register Experienced Guides for the Journey of Marriage: Marriage Mentoring
Learn about developing, implementing, and sustaining a marriage mentor program. Mentors are encouraged to build a relationship, provide healthy role models, share experiences, and encourage younger couples in their marriage journey. 		504
Eric Garcia  & Jennifer Garcia 
Register Life Coaching: A New Tool for Marriage and Family Help
Life Coaching is increasingly being used by counselors, churches, and ministries to help couples clarify a Godly vision for their marriages and families. This workshop provides an examination of coaching skills and tools, distinctives of a Christian approach, training options, and tips on adding it to your practice or ministry. 		505
Christopher McCluskey M.S.W.
Register Preparing for a Sexually Healthy Marriage
God has designed single sexuality and premarital relationships as a time of basic training for developing the needed character traits and skills for a sexually vibrant marriage. These include good body image, disciplining sexual desire and setting boundaries, soul virginity, soul sexy femininity and masculinity, righteous flirting, and dialogue. 		506
Doug Rosenau Ph.D. & Debbie Neel Ph.D.
Register Prepare Couples with Children for Remarriage
Pre-remarital counseling must be different than first-marriage premarital counseling if it is to adequately prepare the couple for actual stepfamily living. This workshop will discuss an effective pre-remarital courtship process, children's responses to their parent's remarriage, and how couples can successfully navigate the early years after the wedding. 		507
Ron Deal M.M.F.T.
Register Perils, Pitfalls and Payoffs of Single-Parent Family Ministry
A roadmap through the minefield of single parent family dynamics that can result in transformation, healing and Kingdom growth. Learn how to walk with single parents in a way that changes them from needy stressed-out care receivers to productive members of the core of your congregation. 		508
Tom Wheeler  & Helen Wheeler M.Ed, L.P.C., N.C.C.
Register Families Passing on a Spiritual Heritage: Reaching Kids by Training Parents
Learn how families can provide intentional, fun and exciting spiritual lessons in the home. A simple structure for home-based spiritual training called the Family Time Format will be presented. Learn how 20 minutes of formal training sets up hours of informal training throughout the week. Directions for establishing a church-based Family Time Team will be presented. 		509
Kirk Weaver M.S.
Register The Church a Deliberate Family Forming Center - Changing the Paradigm
THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR THOSE WHO DID NOT ATTEND THE PRE SEMINAR CONFERENCE AND WOULD LIKE A SUMMARY OF ITS CONTENTS. This workshop will shape the vision of leaders and impart practical information to shape their church into a family forming center. It includes sounding the alarm and shifting one's thinking toward a home centered church support model. It will take a close look at one's attitudes and values about the home as the center of faith formation and will share with participants practical strategies such as the family friendly tweak, framework, and program models. 		510
Ben Freudenburg M.A.
Session 6  Friday    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
none
Register Church Based Counseling 201: Targeted Areas for People Helpers in the Church
This workshop is for members of Church Based Counseling 101 and other ministry providers. This session will foucs on four primary areas of counseling type needs within the local church and give the attendee some basic strategies and tools in assessing and assisting church members. Course structure and material presented in this class will give ministry leaders transferable material they can teach and train their members with. 		601
John Thurman M.Div., M.A.
Register 2 Becoming One
This class will be to encourage church leaders and layleaders with a marriage ministry model of prepare, enrich and protect with the specific centerpiece of the 2 Becoming 1 small group enrichment study which has been designed from the leadership down to pre-engaged and engaged couples. This transforming study will take couples from a performance based relationship to a oneness through the supernatural faith based relationship. 		602
Charles Wimmer  & Buffy Wimmer 
Register ALERT - Internet Relationships
Online affairs, internet predators, online pornography/cybersex and online harassment have become silent liaisons consuming adults and children. This workshop will equip you with proactive tools for leaders/families and a listing of resources available for support/recovery. 		603
Roger Acton 
Register Foundations for a Ministry of Reconciliation
When a marriage is in crisis, where do couples turn? What are some concrete tools for marriages in need of reconciliation? This workshop will provide participants with simple tools and reproducible activities that will help them lay the foundation for a ministry of reconciliation in their own church or ministry setting. Clint and Penny Bragg will also share thier own reconciliation story as it applies to the principles covered in the workshop. Find out how God reconciled the Bragg's marriage after a span of eleven years and a distance of over 3,000 miles. 		604
Clint Bragg  & Penny Bragg B.A..
Register Transform Your Community's Marriages and Families
Involved in a community-wide effort where churches work together to strenthen marriages and families? Want to be? Learn practical tips, best practices and lessons learned from veterans in community-based marriage efforts. Walk away with a step-by-step plan to unite churches and transform marriages and families in your community. 		605
K. Jason Krafsky  & Julie Baumgardner M.S.
Register Biblical Answers to Questions Couples ask about Sex
This panel of sex therapists certified by the American Board of Christian Sex Therapists will answer questions submitted by conference participants. Questions on sexuality will be answered from Biblical perspective that is consistent with current research in sexuality. Special attention will be given to applying this information to the local church. 		606
Panel of ABCST Members  & Dr. Doug Rosenau, Dr. Deborah Neel, Vickie George  and Christopher McCluskey
Register Ministering to the Non-Traditional Family: A Continuum of Care
Non-traditional families comprise 75% of US families. Churches must first identify the level of care they can provide if they are to minister effectively to the diverse needs of these families. This workshop will identify essential non-traditional family ministry components and equip participants to identify those components that best fit their church mission. 		607
Jeff Parziale Ph.D. & Judi Parziale Ph.D.
Register Keeping the Plates In the Air--Where's the Balance?
All families today are under tremendous pressure to balance home, family, faith, work and personal time issues. Single parents must balance all of these without the help of another adult in the home. Learn practical tips on how to help single parents (and other twirling families) give up plate spinning and still accomplish goals. 		608
Brenda Armstrong 
Register Reaching Kids by Training Parents: The Family Time Team
Traditional Sunday School and Vacation Bible School programs do the spiritual training for the family. Learn how to tweak church programs so that they equip and support families to do spiritual training in the home. Learn how to provide additional support for parents and grandparents through a church sponsored Family Time Team. Workshop includes video and activity demonstrations. 		609
Kirk Weaver M.S.
Register Healthy Families-Healthy Churches
"As our families go, so go our churches"! In this workshop you will be challenged with a proactive and intentional strategy for a local church to become a vital resource for strengthening families through support, education, and enrichment across the lifespan. 		610
Kent Choate Ph.D.
 
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