Hyundai | Volunteer Question | Imago | Marriage Savers - 11/9/07

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- HYUNDI COMMERCIAL IS POWERFUL: TAKE A LOOK
- QUOTE SOURCE
- VOLUNTEER QUESTION
- MARRIAGE SAVER COMING TO TOWN

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- HYUNDI COMMERCIAL IS POWERFUL: TAKE A LOOK

Hi Diane,
I, too, have noticed the Hyundai commercial about commitment. Really good!
Here is a link to it on You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opUdBG-zbKo

Willie Batson
Family Builders Ministries, Inc.
Cape Neddick, ME 
www.familybuilders.net

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- QUOTE SOURCE

> Diane:  
> Regarding Ms. Gilford's question, "A happy marriage is the world's best
> bargain" the quote came from O. A. Battista.
> Tom Rogers 
> Program Analyst 
> ACF Region 8, Denver

Thanks to all who found this one.  Apparently he's written several books. -d

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- VOLUNTEER QUESTION

Hello,
I just learned about your conference today in class. My professor says it's
the best conference she's ever attended. However there was confusion about
the Training Institutes. I just visited the website but I can find no
information about volunteering. My professor says that she sent students in
the past and she's quite sure volunteers cannot attend pre-conference
training institutes because volunteers are required to attend an orientation
meeting that takes place at the same time as the institutes. Please clarify
and please send me information which I will share with the rest of the
class. Our professor says that you had dorm rooms for groups of students
last year. Will those be avialable in SF?
B.D. 

Thank your professor for the nice compliment and for helping recruit
volunteers.  Student volunteers CAN attend both pre and post conference
training institutes. There is a pre-conference volunteer orientation but it
is coordinated with the Institute lunch break so volunteers can attend a
training institute.  Hurry and decide which Institutes you might want.
Those spots fill fast (there's only one vol spot per Institute).  I just
added the IMAGO description a few minutes ago - an Imago Bonanza! - three
courses and you'll be trained in person by the founders, Harville Hendrix
and Helen LaKelly Hunt!

> 111 Two Days - Tuesday & Wednesday, July 1 & 2
> IMAGO: CASP, ImagoConnects, and DialogFirst
> Harville Hendrix, PhD and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD
> Learn to coach couples using the transformative power of Imago Dialogue
> as you qualify to teach a completely revised Couplehood as a Spiritual Path,
> the 3-hr IMAGOConnects for couples, and the new DialogFirst program for
> coaches.
> Designed for congregations and communities. $100 spouse discount. Click for
> more information: http://www.smartmarriages.com/casp.html
  
See the full Institute list - it's an amazing line-up:
http://www.smartmarriages.com/institutes.html

I'll send you the Volunteer Application in a separate email.  I'm going to
share your question with the list and will also put some vol info on the
website. Sorry about that oversight.   - diane

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- MARRIAGE SAVER COMING TO TOWN

[NOTE: Mike and Harriet McManus will present their two-day training at the
San Francisco Smart Marriages Conference:

> 114 Two Days - Tuesday & Wednesday, July 1 & 2
> Creating Marriage-Saver Congregations & Community Marriage Policies
> Mike & Harriet McManus
> Learn how to reduce the divorce rate to near zero in your congregation and
> slash city divorce rates in half by training Mentor Couples who can put a
> "safety net" under every marriage as they prepare couples for life-long
> marriage, enrich existing marriages, save 90% of the troubled ones, help the
> separated to reconcile, and stepfamilies to be successful. Learn how to create
> a Community Marriage Policy. $100 spouse discount.
> Click for more information:http://www.smartmarriages.com /marriagesavers.html


Times-Mail, Indiana
Guest column: ŒMarriage Saver¹ coming to town
By Juanita Russell Guest columnist
November 9, 2007

Circle Nov. 13 on your calendar to attend an important educational meeting
focusing on marriage and family.

The Marriage and Family Alliance of Lawrence County is hosting Mike McManus,
the co-founder of Marriage Savers. McManus has been a correspondent for Time
magazine and is the syndicated author of ³Ethics and Religion.² He will
present the strategy and details of this successful model as well as answer
questions and concerns of how to adapt his plan of action for Lawrence
County.

His presentation will include the importance of training mentor couples who
help provide support in 1) premarital preparation, 2) enrichment
opportunities 3) marriage reconstruction 4) marriage reconciliation 5)
step-families. He will also address the nuts and bolts of developing a
community marriage policy. (For more information on McManus and Marriage
Savers go to www.marriagesavers.com.)

Currently there are 220 communities in the United States participating as
Marriage Saver communities. Several of those communities have seen a
significant reduction in the divorce rate and strengthening of marriages and
families as a result of this effort. They have developed extensive planning
and implementation processes that help people prepare for lifelong
marriages, strengthen existing marriages and restore troubled marriages.

In most communities, faith congregations assume a leadership role in major
aspects of preparation and mentoring opportunities. But these congregations
act in concert with many other community leaders representing the whole
community. As part of this community, we look forward to you being part of
this discussion.

Recently someone indicated that this Œmarriage project¹ belongs only in the
field of religion. What a terrible misconception!

Data from a wide variety of studies, including data collected from the
National Fatherhood Institute and The Future of Children, indicate the
numerous challenges that face our nation as a whole, community after
community, and the troubles and challenges of many people, both children and
adults, are the result of the disintegration of the family. The family is
the basic unit of society.

Looking within our own families and communities, most of us are aware of
numerous challenges, but the data presents the scope and consequences of
these challenges. If still in doubt about all these facts, just talk to
teachers and principals who see the result day after day. It is most
difficult to challenge and equip young minds and hearts, when too many of
those hearts are torn and broken.

Please join us for this important meeting to be held at the First Christian
Church from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Tuesday the 13th is a wonderful opportunity
to be part of an effort that is working on developing solutions that affect
us all. Hope to see you there!

Juanita Russell is a member of the Marriage and Family Alliance and
PeopleWork Associates.

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