CHERISHING AND CHALLENGING OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN This seminar will take a balanced look at the many aspects of cherishing and challenging the children in our lives to be all they can be for Jesus Christ. We will look at personalities, how children learn, discipline, self-esteem, teaching responsibility, caring communication, prayer and reading with children. This seminar closes with a song that reminds us to cherish our children today.

COMMUNICATION CONUNDRUMS Communication is so much a part of who and what we are and yet it gets so confusing. Does our communication build bridges or create roadblocks? Come and learn how to be more effective in your communicating to make it connect with your mate, children, coworkers, family, and friends.

FRAGRANCE OF OUR FRIENDSHIP: In this session we will look t what true friendship is and what makes up being a friend. We will look at women relate to one another and the garden variety of who we are as well as how to express the fragrance of our friendships. (Please note: this can be a women’s retreat as well.)

GIVING GIFTS OF TIME This seminar will help us to find ways to give more of ourselves in order to bless others. We will look at how God has gifted us and how we can, in turn, give this away and receive a blessing, instead of simply feeling “spent.”

LOVE LANGUAGES In this session we will look at the five love languages of encouraging words, giving gifts of time, physical touch, gift giving and acts of service. We will find ways to express as well as receive love more effectively through these different love languages.

ONCE UPON A TIME What do we do when the fairy tale doesn't come true? How to look at our dreams in light of reality with a more humorous perspective. We will also look at ways to enhance the marriage relationship.

PRIORITIZING OUR PRIORITIES As busy Christian women, we find that we often have too many time commitments. It may not be that any are wrong, but we simply have too much to do. This seminar will help us to better prioritize our many priorities so that we are more balanced rather than over-burdened.

SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES FOR THE WOMEN OF THE NEW MILLENIUM We will look at ways to deepen our “walk” to better match our “talk”. We will find ways to sink our spiritual roots deeper so that we may bloom more beautifully for Christ.

THE FRAGRANCE OF OUR FRIENDSHIP We will look at what true friendship is and what constitutes being a friend. We will look at how women relate to one another and the garden variety of who we are as well as how to express the fragrance of friendship.

THE PRESENTS OF OUR PRESENCE We will look at how we are PACKAGED and our PERSONALITIES and PERCEPTUAL STRENGTHS and how these factor into our PRESENCE. We will look at how we can be PROGRAMMED, PRUNED AND PURIFIED to better PRODUCE the fruits of the Spirit. We will also find ways to be more effective in PRIORITIZING OUR PRIORITIES in order to best PRESENT the gifts of our PRESENCE so that we can be a blessing to others.

WIVES' EXPECTATIONS OF THEIR HUSBANDS We will look at where our expectations often come from and then we will look to the Scriptures to help us determine how to redefine these expectations in light of God's word.