Becomers Recovery Class  |  Boundaries Class  |  Shelter From the Storm
Women to Women  |  Moving Beyond Your Past  |  Untangling Relationships
In My Father's House  |  After You Say "I Do"  |  The Virtuous Woman
The Choosing to Forgive Workbook  |  Making Peace With Your Past
Telling Each Other the Truth  |  Making Love Last Forever

Becomers Recovery Class For Women

What is becomers?

A recovery course designed to promote mental, emotional, and spiritual healing through group sharing

How does this program help?

It helps victims of childhood or adult experiences, identify hidden trauma that continues to interfere with their emotional and spiritual growth in relationships.

This program is based on the TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD. It reveals distorted images of God and teaches how to share inner feelings. It reveals God's desire for you to forgive, while establishing you in worthiness of Christ and the freedom to walk in His image.
 

Areas covered during class will include:

• Journaling
• Realizing powerlessness
• Discovering self identity
• Sharing feelings
• Accepting responsibility
• Forgiveness
• Codependent behaviors

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Boundaries Class
For Men and Women

Boundaries, What are they?

A boundary is a personal property line that marks those things for which we are responsible. In other words, boundaries define who we are and who we are not. Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle.  Boundaries impact all areas of our lives.

Physical Boundaries

Help us determine who may touch us and under what circumstances

Mental Boundaries

Help give us the freedom to have our own thoughts and opinions

Emotional Boundaries

Help us to deal with our own emotions and disengage from the harmful, manipulative emotions of others

Spiritual Boundaries

Help us to distinguish God's will from our own and give us a renewed awe for our Creator

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Shelter From the Storm

A recovery program for teenage girls who have been victimized by emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. Shelter from the Storm will help teens understand themselves. They will begin to identify destructive patterns, influences and harmful choices in their lives. It will help teens learn how they can experience God's love, forgiveness and power in all of life's circumstances. They will be surrounded by other teens with common experiences and circumstances. They will learn how to move from victim, to survivor, to a Christ centered thriver!

Who may attend?

Teen girls ages 12 through 20 years old, needing guidance through brokenheartedness of childhood victimization.

When do we meet?

Thursdays from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. throughout the school year.
To contact us phone (904) 242-0015 for location and start dates.

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Women to Women

A weekly support group for women, designed to help you gain trust in God, others and yourself. We offer an open forum to encourage you to work through issues of abuse, the past, current relationship problems, marriage issues, and the brokenheartness of special issues like shame, guilt, fear, and disappointment.

Meeting in Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Call (904) 220-9916 for registration information

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Moving Beyond Your Past

Learn how to move beyond the hurts of the past into joyful and productive day-to-day living. This class will guide you toward emotional and spiritual wholeness. You will learn how to make major change in your life through a cycle of growth involving both attitudes and actions. You will study these topics:

• Brokenness

• Surrender

• Cleansing

• Honesty

• Confession

• Empowering

• Openness

• Asking

• Intimacy

• Vulnerability

• Sharing

You will have access to a moral inventory worksheet, a reconciliation plan and a self-care guide. Participants focus on the present.

You are encouraged to take these steps to change your present behaviors:

• Learn to alert yourself when a painful childhood experience causes you to react in an unhealthy way to a given situation.
• Begin to make new choices about responding to situations. Rather than simply reacting to childhood hurts, you can run to the arms of God through belief and faith
• Learn some new ways of responding to people who hurt you.

Moving Beyond Your Past is a support-group course. You'll study dysfunctional family issues and other sensitive emotional areas that individuals might face. A carefully selected group facilitator guides discussion on the topics and helps group members process what they have learned during their study. Group members help one another by talking in a safe, loving environment.

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Untangling Relationships
A Christian Perspective on Codependency

This class helps you identify the painful effect of codependency. It is not for the dependent person addicted to drugs and alcohol. It is for those who are caught up in constantly pleasing people, fixing people's problems who have compulsions to control others and situations. Codependents are rejected by the same people they are trying to please. They choose to accomplish for others so they will receive worth, acceptance and love, but in return get crumbs.

• If you have these tendencies you will be a good candidate for class:
• Try to control everything and everyone.
• Achieve to receive worth and approval from others.
• Are filled with guilt about telling others "no."
• Have to be perfect, always right never wrong and always happy about life.
• Are hurting and lonely on the inside but appear joyful outwardly.
• Are insecure and don't know who you are in Christ.
• Don't have a sense of belonging in any relationships.
• Find it difficult to relate and communicate. You are constantly searching for your family's love but never receiving it.

Come join us in a 9 week interactive group setting prepared to disable your enablements of codependency. God is waiting for you. He has your worth and acceptance in His hands, so willing to give it to you.

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In My Father's House
Women Relating to God as Father

This class is a six week interactive study in a small group setting. Women need to get to know Goad as Father and relate to Him as a blessed daughter. Students are challenged to base their relationship with God on the truths of who He is rather than falsehoods about Him. God wants you to get to know him on an intimate level. Come and enjoy a day class with other women, like yourself, who don't know God as their relational Father.

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After You Say "I DO"

Keep the steady light of daily love alive! This class is packed with a wealth of practical ideas and thought-provoking questions. After You Say "I DO" will help you create a long-lasting, more intimate marriage. Through perceptive questions, inspiring thoughts, and enlightening scriptures, you'll find new ways to:

• Fuel the flames of love in your partner
• Delight in the joys and strengths of differences
• Explore God's plan for your marriage
• Become one in financial priorities
• Build healthy relationships with in-laws

You are offered an exciting way for you and your spouse to build a love that will continue to burn brightly through the years. You will be enlightened on these subjects:

• Expectations
• Goals
• Intimacy
• Roles
• Responsibilities
• Decision-Making
• Communication
• Sex
• Conflict
• Finances
• Spiritual Togetherness

Join us in an exciting course for married couples. Grow together as a couple with other married couples who share the common bond of Christ-centeredness. Share your experiences, heart felt desires and marriage goals as a group.

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The Virtuous Woman
Shattering the Superwoman Myth

She rose at daybreak, grew the food, made the clothes, kept the house, and ran a business. Her husband praised her and her children adored her. Was she the original superwoman?

"In my years of teaching and speaking. I must admit that I have purposely avoided teaching on the Proverbs 31 woman. I mean, is this woman for real? She makes Martha Stewart look like a sluggard! If she really does exist, I'm not sure I would want to run in her circle. The two of us would not have much in common, " says Reverend Joyce Shelton.

For years, Christian women have struggled to understand what this woman is all about. Reading this passage can evoke more guilt than eating a one-pound bag of M&M's. Is she considered the "ideal woman" and, if so, should we seek to emulate her many qualities? Is there hope for those of us who don't make biscuits from scratch or sew our own clothes?

The Virtuous Woman combines individual and group work in a women's Bible study experience. Topics consist of:

• The Ideal Woman
• A Woman Who Fears the Lord
• A Woman of Worth
• A Woman of Wisdom
• A Woman of Purpose
• A Woman Who Surpasses Them All

Regardless of the confusion this passage has generated, one truth remains: By no accident did this passage get included in God's Holy Word.

We invite you to join us in a six-week study of the Proverbs 31 woman. Together we can unravel the mysteries, and we may discover the pursuit is worth the effort.

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The Choosing to Forgive Workbook

A 12-part comprehensive class to overcome your struggles to forgive and find lasting healing. Discover contentment and peace by letting go of harmful anger.

Perhaps there have been times you've felt stuck in bitterness, discouragement or cynicism. Maybe you've asked "How can I forgive when I hurt as badly as I do?" Or you've had moments when you thought you'd truly forgiven, only to have anger return You may have been taught that anger is bad, that Christians can't be angry or that nothing good ever results from anger.

The class allows you to personalize the information and develop a plan that will lead to real results. This class will teach you how to increase your ability to forgive by:

• Learning to establish appropriate boundaries
• Achieving a balance between forgiveness and healthy anger
• Correctly manage and communicate your anger
• Forgive for the right reasons

The choice is yours: debilitating anger or forgiveness that frees you to expend your energy on emotionally healthy goals and more satisfying pursuits, such as love, respect, confidence, and servitude. Choose forgiveness and start on the path toward a life of abundance.

A class to help adult children of dysfunctional families reconcile their childhood issues

• You will learn to identify and understand problems and feelings from your past.

• You will be taught and encouraged to forgive your past offenders.

• You will learn that you aren't alone in your problems, others are just like you.

• A group environment will help you learn to trust others and eventually trust GOD.

• Your heart will experience a sense of hopefulness, wholeness, and truthfulness.

• Your mind will be renewed and your image changed into Christlikeness.

Do you dare take a chance to trust God with your past life?

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Biblical truth, when revealed, has the power to bring emotional health to people. It can heal hurts and build relationships between others. When you drop your hidden motive of harsh harassment, blaming and fault finding and replace it with respect and love, healing can take place.

• A communications course developed to help you speak the truth in Christlikeness.

• Develop new ways of communicating with family, friends, and co-workers, particularly those who irritate.

• It teaches you methods to avoid manipulating others.

• You'll learn the freedom to say "NO".

• Keys to "listening" to what others are saying.

• Training in social conversation - truth seasoned with salt.

• Learn when you attack and when you defend and replace it with biblical truth.

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Making Love Last Forever

This pilot class is designed for interaction with other married couples in a small group setting. We meet to watch a 15 minute video then discuss the topic. A workbook included has light reading and should take about 10 to 15 minutes per day to do during the week.

Gary Smaller, the author, demonstrates how to help you stay in love with your mate. He claims:

"You con love your wife but also fall in love with life. What does loving life have to do with loving your spouse? For your love to last forever, you must be in love with life. Think in terms of the oxygen-mask instructions given by airplane attendants: If you don't make the choice to reach for oxygen yourself there's no point in your trying to help someone else. That's how it is with love. Learn to love life as God loves you, and then you have the resources to give and receive love."

"Making Love Last Forever is a class to help you discover forever-love and develop skills to share that kind of love with your spouse."

The video and book cover subjects of:

• Love's Best-Kept Secret
• Balancing Expectations
• Responsibility
• Anger
• The Power to Keep Loving
• Communication
• Understanding Your Mate
• Conflict
• Intimacy
• Avoiding Hurt
• Signs of a Healthy Marriage
• Divorce-Proofing

We invite you and your spouse to participate in this class with us in growing toward "Making Love Last Forever."

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