Marriage Savers Schedule - 4/17/09

Fri Apr 17 12:02:21 EDT 2009

Note item #4 - you can learn all about HOW to start a Community Marriage
Policy at the McManus MASTER workshop on Saturday morning in Orlando from
the Master/Founders, themselves.  - diane

- MARRIAGE SAVERS SCHEDULE: YOU'RE INVITED

Dear Diane,
       Our Marriage Savers schedule has never been more diverse.  We are
helping create Community Marriage Policies in small and large places: State
College, PA, Tampa, Milwaukee, Charlevoix, MI.  We're also on the circuit
speaking about how to reform No Fault Divorce by requiring Mutual Consent of
both parents of young children to state legislators in Wisconsin, at Smart
Marriages, to state legislators from all states at a WallBuilders meeting in
Dallas and at a conference sponsored by Georgia Chief Justice Leah Sears.
Please share the schedule with your list and encourage people to attend or
to contact us to organize their own Community Marriage Policy events.

Michael J. McManus
President & Co-Chair
Marriage Savers
www.marriagesavers.org
301 469-5873

Marriage Savers Schedule

April 24-26: State College PA Community Marriage Covenant will be signed at
1 pm at Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church on April 24.  Mike &
Harriet McManus will train clergy and Mentor Couples from 6:30 to 10pm
Friday and from 8:30 to 4:30 Saturday, contact Rev. Bryan Spang, 814
234-8177 (bspang at minitab.com).

May 19-20: Wisconsin Legislative Briefing & Waukesha Pastor Briefing at 3 pm
May 19 by Mike McManus organized by ThinkMarriage, followed the next morning
by a breakfast with Wisconsin State Legislators in Madison. Contact: John
Kosmoski 920 655-1631 (john at thinkmarriage.org) and Eric Skelton, 608
256-3228 (eric.t.skelton at gmail.com)

June 12-13: Tampa FL CMP Signing at 1 pm on June 12, followed by a
clergy/mentor couple training by Mike and Harriet Friday night and from
8:30-4;30 on Saturday in Preparation, Enrichment, Restoration,
Reconciliation and Stepfamilies. Call Stan Skipper 813 254-1787
(stan at clfinc.org). 

June 19-20: Cincinnati OH CMP, organized by Saving African-American
Families, with a signing at 1 pm June 19, followed that evening by a
training led by Mike and Harriet McManus from 6:30-10 pm, and on Saturday
from 8:30-4:30.  Call Jimmie Walker, 513 851-5204 (saafministries at yahoo.com)

July 8-11: Orlando: Smart Marriages Conference: Mike and Harriet will
conduct a 90 minute Overview of Community Marriage Policies at 10 am July
11, teaching how to launch CMPs that can cut divorce rates for individual
churches to near zero and reduce divorce rates for communities by 20% to
50%, reduce cohabitation rates and raise marriage rates.  Mike will host a
panel on Friday at 10:15 am on Divorce Reform Legislative Strategies with
John Stemberger of the Florida Family Policy Council and Bryan Fischer of
the Idaho Values Alliance focusing on a change in No Fault Divorce that
would require parents of young children to get the written consent of their
mate, before a divorce is granted, unless major fault (adultery, physical
abuse) can be proven. Mike host two morning Roundtables at 7:15 am on Thurs
& Saturday on Community Marriage Policies and another at 7:15 on Friday on
Divorce Reform. 

August 22: Bethesda, MD: Mike and Harriet will train clergy and Mentor
Couples from their own Fourth Presbyterian Church, plus couples from other
area churches in the new customized PREPARE-ENRICH inventory. Contact
Harriet, 301 469-5870 (Harriet at marriagesavers.org) to register.

August 28-29: North Milwaukee clergy will create a Community Marriage Policy
with a signing at 1 pm Friday followed by a training of clergy and Mentor
Couples from 6:30 to 10 pm and on Saturday from 8:30 to 4:30 in our five
proven interventions: Preparation, Enrichment, Restoration, Reconciliation
and Stepfamilies. Contact: John Kosmoski at 920 655-1631
(john at thinkmarriage.org).

October 23-24: Charlevoix, MI: Clergy will sign their Community Marriage
Policy at 1 pm, followed by a training that evening and all day Saturday.
Contact Ron Willey 231 237-9392 Ron at willeyoptical.com).

November 6-7: Dallas:  Mike McManus will speak to conservative state
legislators from 50 states about how to cut any state¹s divorce rate in half
by passing a ³Modified No Fault Divorce Law² that would require parents of
minor children to get the written consent of their spouse before a divorce
is granted. By giving both spouses an equal voice, many couples would work
out their differences to give their children a better chance.  Mike has
already spoken to state legislators in Florida, Michigan and will do so May
20 in Wisconsin.  This invitation was sparked by his book, How to Cut
America¹s Divorce Rate in Half: A Strategy Every State Should Adopt.

November 20: Atlanta: Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Sears is
hosting a conference on how to reduce the divorce rate with such legislative
strategies as ³Modified No Fault Divorce,² described above. Another
supportive panelist will be John Crouch, a divorce attorney who is Director
of Americans for Divorce Reform. Gov. Mike Huckabee, who wrote the Foreword
to Mike¹s book, How To Cut the Divorce Rate in Half, has also been invited.
Contact Justice Sears¹ secretary: givanl at gasupreme.us

January 21-23: Charleston, SC: Mere Anglicanism: Mike and Harriet will give
an overview of their work which has reduced divorce and cohabitation rates
and raised the marriage rate in hundreds of cities in a conference sponsored
by Rt. Rev. FitzSimons Allison, the retired Bishop of South Carolina: 843
546-5350.

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