Benefits:

1. Bring speakers on marriage to your community: your church will continue its reputation and community service to bring events that connect to people both inside and outside your congregation!
2. Create a marriage revival in your church.
3. Lower the divorce-rate for marriages: Based on extensive research for 4 years, the biblical principles taught in the seminar and in the small group can impact marriages to stay intact with a major success rate.
4. Use this event to launch more small groups.
5. Reaching community today means inviting friends, co-workers, and neighbors to events that are helpful, practical, fun and very community-friendly. This seminar has been used successfully to attract from 10-40% un-churched people.

Speakers:

The I Promise Retreat will be taught by one of these speakers, depending on availability and schedule.

Ted Cunningham is the founding pastor of Woodland Hills Community Church in Branson, Missouri. Woodland Hills was planted in 2002 and received a Purpose Driven Church Health Award in 2006 with over 1200 members in those four years. He serves as writer and speaker with Gary Smalley including projects like: Your Relationship with God, I Promise and the I Promise Curriculum. Ted is a graduate of Liberty University and Dallas Theological Seminary. Married for ten years to his wife, Amy, they have two wonderful children, Corynn and Carson. Click here to view a video

Dr. Greg Smalley is the director of Church Relationship Ministries for the Center for Relationship Enrichment on the campus of John Brown University. He is also an assistant professor of marriage and family studies at John Brown University. He has appeared on both television and radio programs, including Focus on the Family and Hour of Power. He is the author or co-author of eight books. Greg, his wife Erin, two daughters, Taylor and Maddy, and son, Garrison live in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.

What Others Say:

"Security is everything in a marriage. It's what every woman wants and what every man dreams of: a caring, secure marriage where each partner serves the other with equal love and faithfulness. This seminar presents the essential ingredients of a secure, fulfilling, Christ-centered relationship."
—Pastor Rick Warren, Saddleback Church
Purpose-Driven Church & Life

"I think a conference like this really compliments what we're trying to do as pastors. We can't counsel everybody. We can't sit down and spend 30 minutes with everybody. But we can provide these kinds of opportunities that are really going to make a difference in peoples lives."
—Dr. Gary Chapman,
author of The Five Love Languages and speaker

Click here to download a Program about the Retreat

Questions? Call Kelly at 1.800.848.6329 ext. 34 OR email her at Kelly@smalleyonline.com

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