Spring 2010 DiscipleLife Course Descriptions
The Couple’s Check-Up
Facilitator: Allen James
Room: A206
Length of Course: 6 Weeks
Material Cost: $30 for couple’s check-up assessment
Description: The Couple Checkup is designed to help you and your partner build a more satisfying and intimate relationship. Through the use of a couple’s assessment, couples will be challenged to consider their thoughts and attitudes about their relationship. Each class session will be designed to activate dialogue, discovery, and increase the overall quality of your marriage. If you are in a dry season in your marriage, maybe a couple’s check-up is exactly what you need.
Experiencing God: Knowing & Doing the Will of God
Facilitator: Lee Paulson
Room: A208
Length of Course: 13 Weeks
Material Cost: $15 for workbook
Description: Experiencing God is a foundational study for every Christ follower. Within this study, participants will be encouraged to understand how to:
- Learn how to hear when God is speaking to you.
- Find out where God is working and join Him.
- Discover that God pursues a love relationship with you that is real and personal.Face crises of belief as you join God where He's working.
- Experience God doing through you what only God can do!
GriefShare
Facilitator: Judie Whitson
Room: Conference Room
Length of Course: 13 Weeks
Material Cost: $10 for participant guide
Description: If you’ve lost a spouse, child, family member or friend, you’ve probably found there are not many people who understand the deep hurt you feel. This can be a confusing time when you feel isolated and have many questions about things you’ve never faced before. GriefShare is designed for people grieving the death of a loved one. Many other life situations bring deep grief, such as separation and divorce, a loved one who is dying, estrangement, loss of a loved one to a cult, loss of custody of a child through divorce and more. You are welcome to begin attending the GriefShare group at any session. Each is “self-contained,” so you do not have to attend in sequence. You will find encouragement and help whenever you begin. You will be able to continue with GriefShare through the next 13-week cycle and view any of the videos you have not seen.
How to Drug-Proof Your Kids
Facilitator: Shane Baxley
Room: B116
Length of Course: 8 weeks
Material Cost: $10 for workbook
Description: The disturbing truth is, the majority of parents of children who've used illicit drugs at one time believed their kids were not at risk. How to Drug Proof Your Kids is designed to help parents grasp the reality of drug use in our culture today, and take preemptive action to avoid its devastating results. The lure of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs on children is dangerously strong and its impact is often deadly. This course is designed for all parents, regardless of the age of your children.
Victoriously Frazzled
Facilitator: Carol Price
Room: A211
?Length of Course: 7 Weeks
Material Cost: $10 for workbook
Description: Victoriously Frazzled: The Frazzled Female’s Guide to Restoring Her Sanity by Cindi Wood is a great follow-up study to The Frazzled Female. Victoriously Frazzled will help any worn out, burned out, and stressed out woman understand the Spirit God has given her. The goal is to lead women into the presence of God—right in the midst of their “frazzledness.” By doing so, women will gradually pull back from confusion and doubt, from fear and self, and allow God’s Spirit to have His way in their lives.
The Way of the Master
Facilitator: Brad Latham
Room: A123
Length of Course: 8 Weeks
Material Cost: $10 for book and materials
Description: Each of us has family members, friends, co-workers, and others in our lives who do not know the Lord Jesus Christ. We often feel unequipped and afraid to share our faith with them. Our study will put tools in your hands that will allow you to share the message of Jesus in a simple, conversational way that has been used by thousands to lead those they love to Christ.
When God’s People Pray
Facilitator: Med Guertin
Room: A203
Length of Course: 7 Weeks
Material Cost: $10 for participant book
Description: Prayer can change lives and circumstances like nothing else can. What are the keys that unlock its power, that turn prayer from a mere activity into a vital link with God and all his resources? In this DVD-based course, Jim Cymbala, pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle, shows you and your small group truths about prayer that God has used to? ?turn his own church from a tiny, struggling inner-city congregation into a vital, thriving community of believers who pray with passion, focus, and faith.
OTHER DISCIPLELIFE COURSES COMING THIS SPRING…
For couples - Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey
For women – Ruth: Love, Loss, & Legacy by Kelly Minter