Support
and Mentorship.

MARRIAGE MENTORING

MOST MARRIAGES DON’T NEED AN OVERHAUL, JUST REGULAR TUNE-UPS

You are not alone in your experiences. You’ll be paired with another couple who wants to listen and invest in your lives. Over the course of a year, they’ll guide you through 14 conversations crucial for a healthy marriage. This isn’t crisis counselling, it’s an opportunity to share your story and learn from the life experience of another couple.

You will meet with your mentor couple for approximately 90 minutes a month. They will guide you through one of the conversations in your conversation guide and listen to you, encourage you and help you to determine some next steps to grow closer together.

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Life Groups

Life Groups meet weekly on Tuesdays to help people grow, change and overcome their life challenges through Bible-based course study. These courses are led by facilitators who want to see people grow and change, and most facilitators have navigated through these challenges themselves. 

Start date: Sept. 17

Time: 7pm

Location: 205 Greenbank Rd

Fee: $40 ($60 for couples to take Marriage Oneness or Change Your Money Story)

We are looking into whether we can provide childcare if it’s necessary. Let us know if this is essential to your participation.

GriefShare: Surviving The Holidays, Dec 5

When you’re grieving the death of a family member or friend, you may dread the holiday season. Thoughts of social gatherings, family traditions, and obligations leave you anxious and overwhelmed. Your sadness can seem unbearable. You may wish you could skip these next two months and go straight to the routine of the next year—but you can’t. Join us for this free, one-night session and learn:

  • How to deal with the many emotions you’ll face during the holidays

  • What to do about traditions and other coming changes

  • Helpful tips for surviving social events

  • How to discover hope for your future

DivorceCare: Surviving the Holidays, Dec 5

Wondering how you will survive the weeks surrounding Christmas? God has a plan for this pain. When a marriage ends, the holiday season can be especially painful. Our free, one-night Surviving the Holidays seminar helps participants face challenges and discover:

  • How to deal with emotions

  • Helpful tips to surviving social events

  • Ways to help children through the holidays

  • Hope for the future

Anger: Overcoming Emotions That Destroy

Life is full of hurts and bumps and bruises. Every emotional hurt we experience produces an automatic reaction of anger in us, even if we are not aware of it. As a result we tend to repress our anger instead of using it to help us deal with life’s hurts. Anger is often misunderstood and when we express it in a destructive manner, we experience hurt again.

In this course, you’ll learn how anger can work for your benefit and how to use it to overcome hurts and offences through forgiveness.

Here are a few of the topics covered:

  • Understanding anger’s purpose

  • How depression, anorexia, sarcasm and yelling can all come from a similar root

  • How to deal with hurt by turning anger into a friend

  • Developing a strategy that turns anger into motivation

  • Distinguishing between anger and bitterness

  • How to heal hurt and bitterness through forgiveness

Battlefield of the Mind - for Women

Overcoming Negative Thoughts

Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger and feelings of condemnation: all are attacks on the mind. If you suffer from negative thoughts, take heart!  You will learn to deal with thousands of thoughts that you may think every day and how to focus your mind the way God thinks. Through personal stories, biblical truth, and encouragement you will learn to think with purpose, win the battles of your mind, and begin a joy-filled life.

Change Your Money Story

Take Control of Your Money and Your Future. This course will address topics like paying off debt, budgeting,  insurance, wills, saving money and giving generously. Couples must attend together. 
Couples: $60, register one for the course and the other as "Spouse".

Overcoming Anxiety

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Don't let anything in life leave you perpetually in angst.  Philippians 4:4-8 contains an antidote to anxiety that will help you develop a mindset of resilience. Rediscover the power of prayer and take control of your thoughts. You can rest in "the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding."

Recovery from Codependence

This group offers a supportive place to explore unhealthy relationship styles found in families and the unhealthy effects it has on us as we grow up. You may have attempted to find comfort in unstable or unsatisfying ways and have assumed negative and false beliefs about yourself. Journeying through this workbook will help you see how to create a healthy new identity and understand what healthy relationships look like and how to achieve them.

Marriage Oneness

CLOSENESS FOR A LIFETIME

Marriage Oneness equips couples to grow in true intimacy, connection, and purpose--and experience closeness in seven key areas: communication, conflict resolution, finances, spiritual beliefs, sexuality, responsibilities, and outside influences. Whether married for many years, newlywed, or preparing for marriage, this engaging, enjoyable 8 week course presented by a variety of couples is for you.
$60, register one for the course and the other as "Spouse".

GriefShare

Your Journey from Mourning to Living Again

Grief is not just sadness or depression; it is a whole host of emotions ranging through anxiety, anger, guilt, confusion, vulnerability, relief and more. Those who have suffered the passing of a loved one will acquire coping tools, emotional support and encouragement to rebuild. The format is DVD, discussions and a book of inspirational readings.

Breaking Chains

This practical spiritual check-up based on Freedom in Christ will help you connect with Jesus in a deeper way as attitudes and behaviours which need to change and areas where faith could be increased will be highlighted. The 10 week course provides steps using the Bible and prayer to feel free from condemning thoughts, unhealthy patterns, spiritual struggles and feelings of hopelessness, bitterness or fear. Click here for an overview of the course material.

DivorceCare - Journey of Hope

This course is to help you find healing from the pain of separation or divorce. It’s a 13-week, video-based program, and you’ll find help to manage the emotional turmoil and practical tools for decision-making.  You’re not alone, and you will be ok.

Registration for the courses listed below has already closed for this term.

Please check back at the beginning of December to see which courses will be offered in January.

Choose Joy: Tools for Battling Depression or Discouragement

Ever wonder why some people seem to experience joy in their daily lives—even in the tough times—and others can't seem to find it no matter how hard they search? Explore how to live with joy no matter what you are going through, developing convictions about God that will help you nurture joy and strength rather than fear, apathy or despair.