"Cove and Tere’s ministry is much more than a rich source of relevant information to help modern marriages and families. It is a refreshing encounter with God and your spouse. Each session is a moment to confront emotional scars that plague many marriages with the miracle working grace of God."
Pastor Yamil Luciano
Iglesia la Familia de Dios
Las Vegas
Seminar topics (below) may be selected by you based upon which topics you believe will best address the issues facing married couples and families in your church.
Families
1. Making Peace with Your Past
Discuss the importance of your past and how traumas, wounds and emotional scars from childhood, adolescent and early adult issues adversely affect your marriage and prevent you from knowing the deep true love that God has planned for you to receive from your spouse. Inner-healing for the couple.
2. Keeping the Enemy Out of Your Marriage
Recognizing how the enemy comes after you and your children. Understanding his strategies and learning how to stop his attacks.
3. Make Sure your Marriage Survives and Flourishes
50-60% of first marriages end in divorce. This seminar defines the roles of each spouse and teaches them how to improve their communication; teaches conflict resolution and how to improve sexual intimacy.
4. Marriage 911
What to do if your spouse is controlling, abusive, irresponsible, non-communicative, unfaithful, alcohol or drug addicted or depressed.
5. Healing in the Family
Discuss the importance of forgiveness between the couple and the family. Parents will ask forgiveness from the children. Inner-healing for the family.
6. Healing Our Sexuality
Many have suffered physical and sexual abuse during childhood and as a result they can not achieve a normal healthy intimate relationship with their spouse. Issues they might have, or still are facing, are pornography, promiscuity, homosexuality or other issues regarding their sexual self.
7. How to Make Step-Families Work
One out of every two first marriages end in divorce leaving fifty percent of children under 15 years of age being raised by a step-parent. The Christian Church must provide these families with Biblical tools to grow well together and be supportive of each other.
Parenting
1. How to Cope with Our Teenager(s)
Christian parents will begin to understand the complex issues facing their teenager. The teenager of today faces tremendous pressure from worldly culture, media and hormonal issues, not to mention pressure from their peers to conform. The pressures they face are immense and this period of their life is critical. Parents will be given the tools to learn how to be an effective parent and still be a friend to your child.
2. Raising Children during Difficult Times
Your child’s mind has been, is currently, or will be at risk of being controlled by others. The race to control what they think, do and say has already started. Parents will be made aware of the adverse effect of games such as Nintendo 64, Sony Play Station and Sega as well as cell phones, internet chat rooms and the millions of predators attempting to communicate to your innocent child.
3. Blessing Our Children
We will discuss the power of the blessing your child must receive from you and how to deliver this blessing.
Teenagers
1. The Truth about Dating
Who will I marry? A question asked frequently by most teenagers. The majority of teens see themselves getting married and dreaming about “happiness forever”. God certainly wants that same happiness …but, the process of selecting a mate is not at all simple.
2. Dangers of Pornography
Pornography suffocates your children from an early age and becomes an addiction just like alcohol or drugs. It is easy to obtain …hard to get rid of. Your children …your teenagers …must be well informed about the risk and the addiction that can become theirs.
3. What the Bible Says about Homosexuality
Homosexuality is growing danger in our population and is, unfortunately, becoming more and more accepted by the worldly culture which surrounds us. Our children and our families are susceptible to this danger and we must know the signs and symptoms and what the Bible teaches us to do.
4. The Mercy of God Towards Today’s Youth
During adolescence a high percentage of teenagers abandon the church. As parents we must know the media atmosphere that surrounds and suffocates our teens. This message will encourage them to return to the church and to the service the Lord has called them to provide.
Leaders and Lay Leaders of the Church
Relieving Pastors of total responsibility for church member counseling is a significant need in churches of every size. In order to help facilitate this need, the seminars presented below cover a multitude of topics that every church will eventually need to address in a counseling setting with its members.
Each teaching session is approximately four hours in length.
1. Alcoholism
Recognize signs and symptoms of alcoholism and alcohol abuse in a family member. Learn about help for alcoholics and family members.
How to recognize the alcoholism signs and symptoms. Christian Recovery.
2. Drug Addiction
Drug abuse facts. Recognizing the signs, symptoms and effects of drug abuse and addiction. What to do when someone you love has a drug abuse or addiction.
3. Destructive Relationships
How to Recognize a Destructive Relationship. This teaching will help countless individuals, families, and churches view abuse from God’s perspective and understand how vital it is for victims to embrace His freedom from the physical, emotional, spiritual, and generational effects of "emotionally destructive relationships".
4. Co-dependency
Co-dependency symptoms, progression and recovery in the context of Christian spirituality. Where does Christian love end and co-dependency begin? Recovery & healing.
5. Sexual Child Abuse
What is sexual abuse and how to help prevent it form happening? Warning Signs of Abuse and How to Report It. What to do if a child reports abuse. The lasting effects of child abuse.
6. Pornography
What is pornography? Is pornography addictive? Pornography issues types, sources and effects on children and teenagers. The dangers of pornography. What the Bible has to say.
7. Homosexuality
What is homosexuality? Is it genetic or environmentally created? What environmental issues lead to this behavior? What does the Bible says about it?
8. Anorexia and Bulimia
Anorexia: what is it, symptoms, what causes it, symptoms, medical consequences, what is the difference between anorexia and bulimia?
Treatment.
9. Depression
Learn about depression, including the signs and symptoms, causes, and the many ways to help yourself or someone you care about. Treatment from a Biblical perspective.
