Weekend to Remember - An Experience You'll Never Forget

Give your marriage a tune up!

Let us tell you all about Weekend to Remember! We've been twice- the first time was in 2005, two months after we divorced on our 14th wedding anniversary... God placed that conference in our path to give us the tools to tear down the walls of isolation we'd unknowingly built in our marriage. He used that conference to restore our relationship, our marriage and our lives.

We made a commitment to go to the conference every year or so and attended again in 2007. God's Word is alive, and we came away learning so much more about how God designed marriage, how He created us for each other and how He uses what we perceive as weaknesses to strengthen each other and grow in Him.

The Weekend to Remember is a great multipurpose tool- it is a how to be married guide for engaged and newly married couples, a restoration tool for broken marriages, a maintenance tool for great marriages and a springboard to the next level for good marriages. The presenters are so human, so easy to relate to, so easy to listen to and learn from.

After we attended the conference last fall, God pressed on our hearts to volunteer for FamilyLife, so we are working at the Raleigh weekend this year. Scott is a group coach and I'm on the prayer team. We'll be there at the conference, serving in whatever way God needs us to serve.

CALL 1-800-358-6329 to register for the weekend so you can use our group code to get an $80 discount on the conference registration, you have to register over the phone in order to get the group rate. Our group code is 16418. The group rate is $178/couple.

Are you military?? If so, the military discount rate is $138/couple- you can register for this discount online- use the code FREEDOM in the key code area.

To learn more, call or email us today!!!

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Coming back down the mountain...

So, we spent the last week at a CFO (Camps Farthest Out- http://www.acfona.org/ ) Retreat. CFO was founded in 1929 with the mission to provide weeklong retreats where families could unplug from the world and seek spiritual balance... and to go farther out with Jesus. The days of the retreat are planned and from what we understand, little has changed since CFO's inception. Each day is structured with times of ebb and flow, time to breath in Jesus, then exhale and share, through activities such as worship, prayer, creatives (art, writing, nature, drama/dance), morning meditation, more worship (with lots of singing!), free time, horizontal time (naps encouraged!), fellowship and "afterglow" (a time for the youth of sharing, hanging out, dancing, worshiping and singing while all us older folks wind down).

There were quite a few teenagers and almost teens and everyone was so friendly, Steven immediately felt at home. Remy and Bailey were quite the welcoming committee! Scott and I were blessed to get to spend time with a number of people, we look forward to keeping in touch with everyone. We were blessed in our prayer groups, the folks with whom we ate each night, in learning "hand and foot", with morning and evening porchtime, and with some volleyball. So many people at this camp have been going for years with Scott's mom, sister Nancy and her husband Doug, and they have been praying for Scott's salvation and the restoration of our marriage, so it was great to be able to thank those prayer warriors. It was also awesome to get to share a little of our testimony with some folks. We look forward to sharing more! And we're adding all the couples to our prayer list here at home- satan is wiley, he'll take any chance he can get to find a chink in the marriage. We're praying that all the couples we met consider going to A Weekend To Remember in October.

Anyway, the camp was held at High Pastures Retreat Center (http://www.highpastures.org/) in Burnsville, NC, about 5 hours from our house. It's in the mountains, it was so beautiful, it reminded us of the Catskills. Steven enjoyed some time wading in the stream, catching crayfish. I don't think he wore shoes all week!
There is an annual Youth vs. Old Folks Volleyball tournament. Steven and Scott played... the Old Folks triumphed this year.
Steven's first friends at CFO were Remy and Bailey. They had a great time together!!
We all had a great time and were glad we went. It was good to get away and refresh our relationships with God. God is so faithful, we each came away blessed in different ways, hearing God in different ways, and being reminded He is here, He is faithful, and He's got an amazing plan for each of us. We praise God and give Him all the glory! We're looking forward to going back next year!
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