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Creative Quiet Time - Karen Warin

8/9/2016

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What if there was a way to go deeper in your time alone with God? Sometimes our quiet time grows stale. You read the Bible or a devotional and pray, but it seems boring. What if you could hear God’s voice and experience Him with all your senses? You can—just Come to the Banquet!

In this workshop, you will discover how to see God everywhere around you. We will use:
  • pictures and images
  • music 
  • hands-on activities 
  • creative expression 
  • journaling
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God is always speaking, just waiting to be heard. As you learn to be still and listen better, you can deepen your relationship with Him.  When you share what you learn with others too, you can broaden your experience of God’s love!
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Dealing With Depression – Sara Ghormley

8/8/2016

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Are you one of the millions of people that struggle with depression? Or have you received a clinical diagnosis? Even though you are a believer, do you fight to find joy in life? I was trapped in the pit of depression for many years, but God led me out of the darkness. I believe He can do the same for you.

Depression is fueled by lies, like chains that keep us in the dark pit of despair. This workshop will help you discover Truths to break the chains that have kept you down so long. We will expose different lies we believed down in the pit:
  • God doesn't care about me. 
  • I am too damaged to experience real joy. 
  • Down deep I am really worthless. 
  • My life will never change.

The Bible tells us to "Be transformed by renewing your mind..." (Romans 12:2). When you change how you think about God, yourself, and others, you will discover how to reclaim the Peace and Joy that is your birthright as a believer. Then you can rest in His love.
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From Pain To Purpose - Laura Rosecrans

8/7/2016

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Life was not supposed to look like this. What happened to the hopes and dreams I had for my future? How could God let this happen? I DIDN’T ASK FOR THIS! 

How many times have you asked these same questions, not understanding why things didn’t turn out as you had expected?

This workshop explores pain – such as divorce, loss of a child, abortion and abuse - and deals head-on with the emotions and hurts that come with problems. Sometimes the pain that take us by storm is not of our own doing or understanding. 
  • We will learn to turn our pain into purpose 
  • Join an intimate walk with our Savior
  • Cease being a victim and learn to become victors in HIM. 
  • Find your good purpose in life

If you’re tired of being beaten down by pain and want a purpose instead, come join me. Find how to walk the life journey that your Father God holds out for you.
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Is God Enough? - Hannah Overton

8/5/2016

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Sure, God is powerful, but is He truly all we need? He is, but I learned that in prison, convicted of murder. We planned to adopt a little boy we met at church, but when he died in our home from a rare, fatal disease, our lives collapsed. My husband and I were accused of murder, and I received a life sentence. Why did He allow this to happen to me when all I ever wanted to do was serve Him? I questioned God's goodness, but as the years passed I saw that God's perfect plan for my life included that prison. I could still serve Him there. 
  • He became everything to me – my husband, my family, my best friend. 
  • He helped me every day, even when I missed my family so much I didn't know if I would survive. 
  • He answered my tough questions and helped me see life from His perspective. 

I led Bible studies in prison and many women came to know Jesus as their Savior. In this workshop, I will share some practical tools and lessons God gave me during my 7 years behind bars. I can show you from my own experience, that God is faithful and He is enough.
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Just As You Are - Jennifer Smith

8/4/2016

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Have the ideas of a performance-driven world seeped into your relationship with God?
Do you try to please God and earn His approval by your performance?
​Do you consider some days a success and some a failure?

Get off the roller coaster of working harder—rest in the finished work of the cross. In Just As You Are, we will explore God's grace - His generous riches, unmerited favor and unconditional love. These gifts don't stop at salvation but empower us for victory in the Christian walk. Whether you feel discouraged and weak from a besetting sin, a weight that hinders you, or weary in waiting on God, His Grace is your answer. We will look to Scripture to understand and apply the role of Grace in: 
  • Healing & Restoration
  • Waiting on the Lord’s timing
  • Taking small steps of obedience or bold steps of faith
  • Standing in His righteousness, not your own

Come just as you are… and be all you were created to be!
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Let's Get REAL – Amy Meyer Allen

8/3/2016

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Have you ever wanted to tell a secret or admit a sin but were afraid no one would accept you if they knew the REAL you? Are you afraid to tell God for fear He won’t love you or want a relationship with you anymore?

Pain, sin, betrayal, and hurt are inevitable in this broken world. But they shouldn't keep us imprisoned. We can’t have intimacy with God and people until we break down the walls around our heart. We want to protect ourselves from pain, but the deep relationships we desire elude us. 

In this workshop, we will explore how Jesus was willing to be vulnerable and REAL with those around Him, despite their betrayal, lack of trust and contempt. Using the Bible as our foundation we will learn:
  • to be REAL with God 
  • to be REAL with others
  • keeping things hidden inside can make us sick
  • being REAL gives others courage to be REAL as well

Learn tools to help you live life in the open – vulnerable and strong, humble and REAL.
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Overcoming Fear - Jennifer Gray

8/2/2016

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Are you living a life full of fear and skepticism? 
Are you imprisoned by your fearful thoughts? 
Are you allowing the difficult situations in your life to control you? 

When we allow fear to rule us, we make fear more powerful than God. We all have struggled with fear at one time or another: Fear of rejection, misunderstanding, uncertainty, sickness, even death. I invite you to come hear how I have conquered fear through the light of our Lord who brings eternal salvation!

In this workshop, I will talk about: 
  • common struggles of living in fear of man -vs.- a life of freedom with a fear of God
  • the tools God gives us to resist fear 
  • how we can even use fear to motivate us to live out our purpose in life 

Our Lord God Almighty, who is in control of everything, gives us the power to overcome fear! 

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1
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Personalities And Pain - Susan Swafford

8/1/2016

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​Have you ever wondered why your spouse, your parent, your child, or even your friend seems so insensitive? Have you ever felt your efforts of reaching out to another were unappreciated? Do you ever want to walk away from a relationship because communication seems utterly impossible? And, have you ever considered that maybe someone asks these same questions about you?

Personality differences can create barriers, cause division, and produce pain. Understanding the different Personalities and the emotional needs each has is essential if we want to grow to be more like Christ. It is possible to build relationships that flourish, regardless of our personality differences, but even to restore “what the locusts have eaten” in the past.
In this workshop, we will look at:
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  • The strengths and weaknesses of each personality type
  • The emotional needs of each personality
  • Overcoming the pain from personality differences
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You Are Not Your Own: Sexual Purity - Cherita Lamb

7/31/2016

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Do you conveniently “pick-and-choose” in your definition of purity? Purity is more than avoiding sin and abstaining from sexual relationships. True Purity begins with understanding your identity in Christ, then knowing God’s purpose for your body. Your body is to be used to do God’s will, to glorify Him. It is also reserved only for the husband God brings to you.
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Any sexual touch or gratification before marriage (or outside of marriage) causes mental, physical and spiritual damage. Through this workshop, Sexual Purity will make sense as you discover your true worth and the right use of your body in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. I pray that, in our time together, Jesus will not only become your Savior, but the Master over your whole life, including your sexuality. Here are some things to prepare for:
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  • Start de-friending old practices and behaviors that feed your old nature
  • How to discern true from fake men believers early in the dating process
  • Jesus is the cure for sexual sin, He leads you to purity
  • Start seeking accountability with a friend by prayer
  • Pray without ceasing
  • Application is everything—get ready to apply what you learn

Understanding purity is not difficult; putting it into practice is difficult—but only when you try it without Jesus Christ. God gives you power to guard your mind, heart and emotions.
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Spiritual Warfare: Healing Your Wounded Soul (Through Prayer and Forgiveness) - Richelle Wright

7/30/2016

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As the saying goes, “Hurt people hurt people.” Sin, hurts, offenses and trauma create Soul Wounds. They also create strongholds that affect your mind, will and emotions. Holding onto those offenses affects your soul and allows the Enemy to wreak havoc in your life.

You have all spiritual authority to heal your Soul Wounds, but Satan does not want you to walk in that full authority!

The Great Physician wants your Wounded Soul healed! The Lord has given me this Soul Healing process and I want to walk you through it:
  • Forgive others for sins
  • Repent of holding onto offenses
  • Apply the Blood of Jesus to your soul
  • Release Resurrection Power
  • Declare Healing of your Soul
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Living free of offense is not a one-time deal; you will have to forgive and go through this process often. The Enemy of your soul will deceive you and say you don’t have to. If Satan can wound your soul again through offenses and sins, he will invite back all the negative things the Great Physician has healed in you. Before your prayers are effective on someone else's behalf, they will have to heal areas of your life, or else they are of no use. After going through this process, you will be able to effectually intercede for others.
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Standing For Marriage - Amy Meyer Allen

7/29/2016

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Have you been toying with the “D” word (divorce)? 
Do you fantasize about being married to someone else?  Or do you wish you had never said, “I do”?

In this workshop, we will be REAL about struggles in marriage. Throughout 23 years of marriage I've lived through lying, anger, fear, non-confrontation, infidelity and pornography. I've prayed that my husband would die, so I could be free from what felt like a prison sentence instead of wedded bliss. I get it. I've lived there. 

BUT GOD….. 

When my husband and I were just a pen stroke away from divorce, God captured both of our hearts. He redeemed a terrible marriage and turned it into a treasure. 
In this workshop I will teach you:

  • to make Jesus the foundation of marriage.

  • to see both yourself and your spouse from God's perspective.

  • to pray earnestly, forgive, and stop building walls.

  • to see how sex can keep both temptation and the enemy away.

  • to be REAL with God and others.

​Over the years God gave me these tools that have helped our marriage to not just survive, but THRIVE!
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Unexpected Grace - Glenda Durano

7/28/2016

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Death…Illness…Betrayal…Loss…  What do you do when your greatest fear becomes real? What happens when an unexpected trial become your life?

How does God bring you through it, from Disaster to Deliverance? How does He work together for good in all things…even tragedies?
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In this workshop, we will discover that Grace is not only God’s unmerited favor, it is power to do things we normally could not do. Be encouraged as you find how Unexpected Grace-encounters can build stability in the storm. Glenda will lead you in:
  • Living in God’s grace
  • Trusting God’s sovereignty in difficult times
  • Choosing courage over fear
  • Seeing God’s blessings in the midst of trials​
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Uprooting Anger - Susan Swafford

7/26/2016

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Have you ever allowed anger to grow in the soil of your heart?
Buried so deeply beneath layers of circumstances that you didn’t know how to dig it out?
​Has anger spread so far over your heart that you’ve forgotten who you are?


In this workshop, we will discover that our identity is not in our anger or in our circumstances; it is in Christ. Satan uses our painful life experiences to destroy us, but God uses those circumstances as a path to deepen a REAL relationship with Him. 

We will learn: 
  • How to break free the captive soul by the power of prayer and simple obedience.
  • How Jesus transforms us through renewing our minds.
  • How to change through a simple daily exercise. 

In the near future, we can be set free from old slavery to bitterness and unforgiveness. Anger seeds that were buried deep will die, and the goodness of God will grow instead.
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Victory Over Strongholds - Jennifer Smith

7/25/2016

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Do you struggle with an addiction or have been told you have an addictive personality?
Have you tried to stop countless times but haven’t found lasting victory?
Do you long to find true joy, peace and freedom?  

Jesus wants His children to be free, satisfied, living abundantly in the purpose they were created for. Yet when we live trapped in strongholds, we don’t fully experience what is rightfully ours. Whether you have struggled with drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, pornography, compulsive shopping, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or any other controlling, destructive habit, this workshop is for you. Freedom is not found in a program, behavior modification or even your own will power—real freedom comes from what Christ has done for us. The Bible says we have God’s power to conquer “sin that so easily entangles us.”


In this workshop we will focus on:
  • Our identity and authority in Christ
  • The sufficiency of Christ to overcome
  • Spiritual warfare
  • Our faith and response to God’s grace

Through JESUS you already have the victory.  

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. (John 8:36)

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Walk Away from Abuse - Cris Paulson

7/25/2016

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Do you wonder if you are being abused? Do you know someone who is? This workshop offers tools to unmask these bad relationships and escape the traps that have been laid.

Abuse wrecks relationships and people. Fear grows, life shrinks. The heart issue of abuse is a misuse of power. The one being abused is usually blind to how bad the abuse really is. Lies and blame-shifting, guilt and shame are powerful weapons of control. In this workshop, you will learn:
  • How to Define Abuse
  • 10 warning flags–Am I being abused?
  • 6 kinds of abuse—what do they all have in common?
  • Can I stop or change an abusive relationship?
  • How to help someone who is being abused.

There IS hope, even in cases of abuse. Jesus Christ came to redeem your life out of darkness and free you from the prison cell. Let Him help you.
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Wanna Be Different? (How To Change) - Cris Paulson

7/24/2016

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Do you hate change? Or even fear change? But is there an area you know you need to change ASAP? An area that is wrecking your life? And the longer you avoid it, the worse it gets?

I meet with women every week who want to change spiritually: overcome a problem, be more loving or more patient, hear God’s voice and understand the Bible better, or know they are pleasing God in their marriage. Then there are practical changes: lose weight, stop a bad habit, spend less, fight less, pray more. Finally, there are people they want to change, right now, if possible!

This workshop walks through the 3-step Change Process in the Bible (Eph. 4:22-32). I can draw a wealth of practical, do-able tips and tools from 30 years of counseling and mentoring women. Let me save you some time in your process of change…and make it less scary for you! In this workshop we will cover:
  • The One Secret Gift You Need
  • Baby Steps to Change Your Life
  • Prayer that Works
  • Faith that Grows
  • How to Heal your Mind
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You can do it, my Friend! I will be there to help. And God won’t let you down.
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    Let's Get REAL
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    Standing For Marriage
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