Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom, and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage.
Ted Lowe will be joining us for this year’s retreat. Through humor, transparency, biblical wisdom, research, and a massive amount of practicality, Ted will help us focus on what he calls "The 5 Boss Thoughts of Marriage." Based on scripture and research, these five guiding thoughts will help set your mind to love in the way you want and your spouse needs.
Ted Lowe, speaker, author, and founder of marriedpeople.org, an organization whose mission is to help make marriage real, fun, and simple. Prior to founding MarriedPeople, Ted served for 10 years as the director of MarriedLife at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia. Ted is the author of the book, Your Best Us. He is a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary, in Pasadena, California. He lives in Cumming, Georgia, with his five favorite people: his wife, Nancie, and their four children.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage. Serving Marriages is excited to have Jeff and Debby McElroy lead this retreat. Those who serve and protect our families pay a high price in their own. Whether military or first responder, the impact of struggles in your relationship affects your ability to perform both at home and at work. The number one cause of on-the-job distractions is problems at home. For most people, distractions at work may mean a drop in productivity. For you, as military personnel or as a first responder couple, please join Serving Marriages for a retreat specifically designed for you, giving you Rest, Care, Encouragement, and Hope. For all you do for our families, we want to give a little something back to you! Come and experience something you will refer back to for years as a landmark weekend in your marriage.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage. Spend the weekend with Ted Cunningham, founding pastor of Woodland Hills Family Church in Branson, MO. Ted is also an author, including co-authoring four books with Dr. Gary Smalley, including From Anger to Intimacy. He is a comedian on the Date Night Comedy Tour and a regular guest on Focus on the Family, Life Today, and Moody Radio.
Ted will lead us on such topics such as: (1) communication - this session receives the most "I wish we would have heard this years ago" comment; (2) Moving from unresolved anger to intimacy; (3) insights into reclaiming a healthy rhythm and pace in an otherwise frantic, chaotic marriage; and (4) a session addressing the selfishness and woundedness that prevents living out our marriages as God intended.
Ever feel like your marriage is "stuck?" When your marriage is stuck, you: (1) blame your spouse as the source of the problem; (2) You question your compatibility; (3) You repeat mistakes and develop patterns.; (4) You rush decisions; (5) You close your heart; (6) You isolate yourself from others.; (7) You doubt your future as a couple; and (8) You explore other options. Hear practical ways to eradicate these symptoms.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom, and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage.
Ted Lowe will be joining us for this year’s retreat. Through humor, transparency, biblical wisdom, research, and a massive amount of practicality, Ted will help us focus on what he calls "The 5 Boss Thoughts of Marriage." Based on scripture and research, these five guiding thoughts will help set your mind to love in the way you want and your spouse needs.
Ted Lowe, speaker, author, and founder of marriedpeople.org, an organization whose mission is to help make marriage real, fun, and simple. Prior to founding MarriedPeople, Ted served for 10 years as the director of MarriedLife at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia. Ted is the author of the book, Your Best Us. He is a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary, in Pasadena, California. He lives in Cumming, Georgia, with his five favorite people: his wife, Nancie, and their four children.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage.
Joining us to lead our retreat is Dr. Shawn and Christina Stoever! Shawn and Christina are passionate about marriage and family and are always eager to share how we can experience fulfillment and joy in life. Whether leading retreats, writing, or appearing on television and radio broadcasts, the Stoever's humor, enthusiasm, and wisdom allow them to fully connect with us. The Stoevers' will use their humor, biblical principles, practical insights, and passion in the following areas to help us move towards "The Marriage You Want":
Shawn received his doctoral degree specializing in marriage and family therapy. He previously served as WinShape Foundation's Senior Director, where he oversaw the Foundation's Marriage, Retreat, Foster Homes, and Experiential Learning ministries. Prior to his role at WinShape, Shawn served as the Director of Training for the Smalley Relationship Center, founded by Gary Smalley. Shawn is co-author of two books: "The Wholehearted Marriage?" and "Five Days to a New Marriage." Christina speaks and leads retreats as an adjunct faculty member of WinShape Marriage.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage. Spend the weekend with Ted Cunningham, founding pastor of Woodland Hills Family Church in Branson, MO. Ted is also an author, including co-authoring four books with Dr. Gary Smalley, including From Anger to Intimacy. He is a comedian on the Date Night Comedy Tour and a regular guest on Focus on the Family, Life Today, and Moody Radio.
Ted will lead us on such topics such as: (1) communication - this session receives the most "I wish we would have heard this years ago" comment; (2) Moving from unresolved anger to intimacy; (3) insights into reclaiming a healthy rhythm and pace in an otherwise frantic, chaotic marriage; and (4) a session addressing the selfishness and woundedness that prevents living out our marriages as God intended.
Ever feel like your marriage is "stuck?" When your marriage is stuck, you: (1) blame your spouse as the source of the problem; (2) You question your compatibility; (3) You repeat mistakes and develop patterns.; (4) You rush decisions; (5) You close your heart; (6) You isolate yourself from others.; (7) You doubt your future as a couple; and (8) You explore other options. Hear practical ways to eradicate these symptoms.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage by guarding your heart, the well-spring to a great marriage! Dr. Greg Smalley, Executive Director of Marriage and Family Foundation at Focus On The Family, and his wife Erin, will lead this retreat for Serving Marriages!
This retreat will take what marriage experts have determined over the past 20 years working with over 6,000 couples in crisis, and condensed the material into our weekend retreat. We will learn insights from the experts and we will focus on:
Dr. Greg Smalley serves as Executive Director of Marriage and Family Formation at Focus on the Family. In this role, he develops and oversees initiatives that prepare individuals for marriage, strengthen and nurture existing marriages and help couples in marital crises. He also serves as a media spokesperson on these matters. Prior to joining Focus, Dr. Smalley worked for the Center for Relationship Enrichment at John Brown University and as President of the National Institute of Marriage. He is the author of 11 books including The Wholehearted Marriage and The DNA of Relationships for Couples. Erin Smalley, RN, BSN, MS, is a nationally known speaker on marriage and family topics. She has been a regular guest on national radio programs and has co-authored two books with her husband.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage! The stage you serve on is a noble, but difficult one. The pressure to show up, be pulled apart from your family, and the things you encounter, can cause you to hide from the painful parts of our marriage—pretending things are good, when they’re really not. Unfortunately, if you're not paying attention, the fear of judgment, shame from past trauma, the chaos of kids, or even the pressure of busyness can divide your marriage. And when things aren't going well at home, one of the places we turn to for solace is right back to our stage. But this is a recipe for brokenness, because the single greatest predictor of divorce is emotional disconnection. It's a subtle fade that, if we're not nurturing our spouse's heart well, can lead to massive brokenness within the home.
Join us as we bring in Dr. Joshua Straub to lead this retreat! Dr. Josh will provide the opportunity to transform your marriage by being emotionally safe with your spouse. Joshua Straub, Ph.D., serves as Marriage and Family Strategist for LifeWay Christian Resources, and is the president and co-founder of The Connextion Group, a company designed to empower marriages and families. As a speaker, family advocate and professor of child psychology, Josh has trained thousands of professionals in Critical Incident Stress Management. He uses his experience and knowledge in the area of trauma to help people around the world, including those in Rwanda who seek healing from the 1994 genocide. Josh speaks on emotionally safe homes and spouses, and the influence of technology on today’s family. He is the author of Safe House: How Emotional Safety is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love and Lead Well. Dr. Josh and his wife, Christi, have two children.
Learn more about Dr. Josh by visiting his website, www.joshuastraub.com.
During the weekend, we will learn:
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage by guarding your heart, the well-spring to a great marriage! Dr. Greg Smalley, Executive Director of Marriage and Family Foundation at Focus On The Family, and his wife Erin, will lead this retreat for Serving Marriages!
This retreat will take what marriage experts have determined over the past 20 years working with over 6,000 couples in crisis, and condensed the material into our weekend retreat. We will learn insights from the experts and we will focus on:
Dr. Greg Smalley serves as Executive Director of Marriage and Family Formation at Focus on the Family. In this role, he develops and oversees initiatives that prepare individuals for marriage, strengthen and nurture existing marriages and help couples in marital crises. He also serves as a media spokesperson on these matters. Prior to joining Focus, Dr. Smalley worked for the Center for Relationship Enrichment at John Brown University and as President of the National Institute of Marriage. He is the author of 11 books including The Wholehearted Marriage and The DNA of Relationships for Couples. Erin Smalley, RN, BSN, MS, is a nationally known speaker on marriage and family topics. She has been a regular guest on national radio programs and has co-authored two books with her husband.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage.
Joining us to lead our retreat is Dr. Shawn and Christina Stoever! Shawn is Senior Director for the WinShape Foundation. Shawn and Christina are passionate about marriage and family and are always eager to share how we can experience fulfillment and joy in life. Whether leading retreats, writing, or appearing on television and radio broadcasts, the Stoever's humor, enthusiasm, and wisdom allow them to fully connect with us. The Stoevers' will use their humor, biblical principles, practical insights, and passion in the following areas to help us move towards "The Marriage You Want":
Shawn received his doctoral degree specializing in marriage and family therapy. As WinShape Foundation's Senior Director, Shawn oversees the Foundation's Marriage, Retreat, Foster Homes, and Experiential Learning ministries. Prior to his role at WinShape, Shawn served as the Director of Training for the Smalley Relationship Center, founded by Gary Smalley. Shawn is co-author of two books: "The Wholehearted Marriage?" and "Five Days to a New Marriage." Christina speaks and leads retreats as an adjunct faculty member of WinShape Marriage.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage. Spend the weekend with Ted Cunningham, founding pastor of Woodland Hills Family Church in Branson, MO. Ted is also an author, including co-authoring four books with Dr. Gary Smalley, including From Anger to Intimacy. He is a comedian on the Date Night Comedy Tour and a regular guest on Focus on the Family, Life Today, and Moody Radio.
Ted will lead us on such topics such as: (1) communication - this session receives the most "I wish we would have heard this years ago" comment; (2) Moving from unresolved anger to intimacy; (3) insights into reclaiming a healthy rhythm and pace in an otherwise frantic, chaotic marriage; and (4) a session addressing the selfishness and woundedness that prevents living out our marriages as God intended.
Ever feel like your marriage is "stuck?" When your marriage is stuck, you: (1) blame your spouse as the source of the problem; (2) You question your compatibility; (3) You repeat mistakes and develop patterns.; (4) You rush decisions; (5) You close your heart; (6) You isolate yourself from others.; (7) You doubt your future as a couple; and (8) You explore other options. Hear practical ways to eradicate these symptoms.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage. Spend the weekend with Dr. Gary Chapman, internationally renowned speaker and author of The 5 Love Languages, and learn to how to acquire the marriage you've always wanted. Dr. Chapman will provide expert wisdom, common sense, and practical methods to establishing true marital unity on emotional and practical levels. Through wit and proven principles, Dr. Chapman will help you and your spouse learn how to solve conflicts without arguing, keep each other's love tank full, and how to help your spouse change without manipulation. Insights shared in this weekend retreat will be helpful to all couples, no matter in what stage of your marriage you are in!
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage. Serving Marriages is excited to have Jeff and Debby McElroy lead this retreat. Those who serve and protect our families pay a high price in their own. Whether military or first responder, the impact of struggles in your relationship affects your ability to perform both at home and at work. The number one cause of on-the-job distractions is problems at home. For most people, distractions at work may mean a drop in productivity. For you, as military personnel or as a first responder couple, please join Serving Marriages for a retreat specifically designed for you, giving you Rest, Care, Encouragement, and Hope. For all you do for our families, we want to give a little something back to you! Come and experience something you will refer back to for years as a landmark weekend in your marriage.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage. Spend the weekend with Dr. Michael Sytsma, renowned for his expertise in marital intimacy, and Ms. Angela Landry. Take your marriage to the next level of connection through God's given gift of intimacy. As couples, we'll learn the critical role of emotional and spiritual unity for healthy intimacy, God's design for the gift of sexuality, and heart-honoring ways to initiate intimacy. Register now and start the process of moving your marriage to the next level and having the lasting love and marriage that God intends for us to have.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage. Spend the weekend with Dr. Gary and Barb Rosberg, internationally renowned speakers and authors, who together encourage couples to experience a great life and marriage. The Rosbergs, through expert wisdom, remarkable insight, and biblical truth, will guide us in how we can forgive freely, serve humbly, persevere courageously, guard vigilantly, celebrate joyfully, and renew daily and have the lasting love and marriage that is intended for us to have.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage. Spend the weekend with Dr. Gary Chapman, internationally renowned speaker and author of The 5 Love Languages, and learn to how to acquire the marriage you've always wanted. Dr. Chapman will provide expert wisdom, common sense, and practical methods to establishing true marital unity on emotional and practical levels. Through wit and proven principles, Dr. Chapman will help you and your spouse learn how to solve conflicts without arguing, keep each other's love tank full, and how to help your spouse change without manipulation. Insights shared in this weekend retreat will be helpful to all couples, no matter in what stage of your marriage you are in!
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage.
Joining us to lead our retreat is Dr. Shawn and Christina Stoever! Shawn is Senior Director for the WinShape Foundation. Shawn and Christina are passionate about marriage and family and are always eager to share how we can experience fulfillment and joy in life. Whether leading retreats, writing, or appearing on television and radio broadcasts, the Stoever's humor, enthusiasm, and wisdom allow them to fully connect with us. The Stoevers' will use their humor, biblical principles, practical insights, and passion in the following areas to help us move towards "The Marriage You Want":
Shawn received his doctoral degree specializing in marriage and family therapy. As WinShape Foundation's Senior Director, Shawn oversees the Foundation's Marriage, Retreat, Foster Homes, and Experiential Learning ministries. Prior to his role at WinShape, Shawn served as the Director of Training for the Smalley Relationship Center, founded by Gary Smalley. Shawn is co-author of two books: "The Wholehearted Marriage?" and "Five Days to a New Marriage." Christina speaks and leads retreats as an adjunct faculty member of WinShape Marriage.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage by guarding your heart, the well-spring to a great marriage! Dr. Greg Smalley, Executive Director of Marriage and Family Foundation at Focus On The Family, and his wife Erin, will lead this retreat for Serving Marriages!
This retreat will provide the opportunity to transform your marriage by helping you fully engage your heart. In order for intimacy and deep connection to occur in a marriage, two hearts must be open to each other. On the other hand, the common thread in almost every couple who is seeking help for their marriage is that either one or both people have shut their hearts down. And a closed heart is the kiss of death to a marriage! Learn why King Solomon wisely encouraged us to guard our heart, for it is the wellspring of life. We say it is also the wellspring of a great marriage. The Smalleys use humor, biblical principles, practical insights, and passion to help us in the following areas:
Dr. Greg Smalley serves as Executive Director of Marriage and Family Formation at Focus on the Family. In this role, he develops and oversees initiatives that prepare individuals for marriage, strengthen and nurture existing marriages and help couples in marital crises. He also serves as a media spokesperson on these matters. Prior to joining Focus, Dr. Smalley worked for the Center for Relationship Enrichment at John Brown University and as President of the National Institute of Marriage. He is the author of 11 books including The Wholehearted Marriage and The DNA of Relationships for Couples. Erin Smalley, RN, BSN, MS, is a nationally known speaker on marriage and family topics. She has been a regular guest on national radio programs and has co-authored two books with her husband.
A Love and Respect Retreat
Back by popular demand...our Love and Respect Retreat!
Why? Two reasons: (1) testimonies received from previous Love and Respect retreats have shown this retreat being as transformational for couples as any we host; and (2) as such, we continue to receive many inquiries about this retreat. The message is simple, effective, and provides ample opportunities for both spouses to experience transformation, regardless of whether your marriage is strong or struggling. And for the husbands...this is the retreat men want to attend. In a sense, this is the Man and his Marriage, Marriage Retreat!!
Learn...
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage!
This retreat provides the opportunity to transform your marriage through gaining the understanding that Growing a Great Marriage is a journey and an adventure. Many ask "what causes quarrels and fights among us?" We will address that question and more importantly, how to get a healing when hurting! This is a retreat for those who desire to explore what helps and what hinders their marriage!
Spend the weekend with Dr. Nathan and Jane Phillips! The Phillips, founders of Battlefield Ministries, lead retreats nationally and internationally and are adjunct faculty at WinShape Marriage, and avid outdoor sportsmen!. Nathan also leads marriage intensives for those couples that are in crisis! The Phillips use humor, biblical principals, practical insights, and a passion to help couples strengthen their marriages!
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage by guarding your heart, the well-spring to a great marriage! Dr. Greg Smalley, Executive Director of Marriage and Family Foundation at Focus On The Family, and his wife Erin, will lead this retreat for Serving Marriages!
This retreat will provide the opportunity to transform your marriage by helping you fully engage your heart. In order for intimacy and deep connection to occur in a marriage, two hearts must be open to each other. On the other hand, the common thread in almost every couple who is seeking help for their marriage is that either one or both people have shut their hearts down. And a closed heart is the kiss of death to a marriage! Learn why King Solomon wisely encouraged us to guard our heart, for it is the wellspring of life. We say it is also the wellspring of a great marriage. The Smalley use humor, biblical principles, practical insights, and passion to help you
Dr. Greg Smalley serves as Executive Director of Marriage and Family Formation at Focus on the Family. In this role, he develops and oversees initiatives that prepare individuals for marriage, strengthen and nurture existing marriages and help couples in marital crises. He also serves as a media spokesperson on these matters. Prior to joining Focus, Dr. Smalley worked for the Center for Relationship Enrichment at John Brown University and as President of the National Institute of Marriage. He is the author of 11 books including The Wholehearted Marriage and The DNA of Relationships for Couples. Erin Smalley, RN, BSN, MS, is a nationally known speaker on marriage and family topics. She has been a regular guest on national radio programs and has co-authored two books with her husband.
Join Serving Marriages for this retreat dedicated to serving those that serve our country. While you guard our freedom and our families, allow us to help you guard your marriage. Spend the weekend with Dr. Gary Chapman, internationally renowned speaker and author of The 5 Love Languages, and learn to how to acquire the marriage you've always wanted. Dr. Chapman will provide expert wisdom, common sense, and practical methods to establishing true marital unity on emotional and practical levels. Through wit and proven principles, Dr. Chapman will help you and your spouse learn how to solve conflicts without arguing, keep each other's love tank full, and how to help your spouse change without manipulation. Insights shared in this weekend retreat will be helpful to all couples, no matter in what stage of your marriage you are in!
A Love and Respect Retreat
Back by popular demand...our Love and Respect Retreat!
Why? Two reasons: (1) testimonies received from previous Love and Respect retreats have shown this retreat being as transformational for couples as any we host; and (2) as such, we continue to receive many inquiries about this retreat. The message is simple, effective, and provides ample opportunities for both spouses to experience transformation, regardless of whether your marriage is strong or struggling. And for the husbands...this is the retreat men want to attend. In a sense, this is the Man and his Marriage, Marriage Retreat!!
Learn...
Join Serving Marriages, in partnership with Focus On the Family, for an incredible retreat that is being led by the world-renowned marriage expert, Dr. Gary Smalley. Dr. Smalley is known as the foremost expert on marriage and family over the past several decades. Dr. Smalley is the author and co-author of 52 best-selling, award-winning books and videos that have connected with over 12 million people. In 40 years, Dr. Smalley has spoken to over two million people in live conferences and has appeared on national televisions programs such as, 'TBN', 'Oprah Winfrey', 'Fox News & Friends', 'Larry King Live', 'NBC Today Show', 'James Robison Show' as well as numerous national radio programs such as 'Sean Hannity Show', 'Focus on the Family', Oliver North, and many more. Dr. Smalley is president and founder of the Smalley Relationship Center providing research, relationship coaching, conferences nation-wide, books, videos, and small group curriculum.
This retreat provides an opportunity to transform your marriage by helping you and your spouse focus on the two greatest factors for a loving, lasting marriage. Learn what determines how happy we are and how to benefit most from every problem and challenge we face. Discover the four main causes of divorce and how to ensure those causes are eliminated from your marriage. Dr. Smalley uses humor, Biblical principals, practical insights, and a passion to help couples strengthen their marriages.
Also joining us as our Special Guest is singer and songwriter Michael O'Brien. While an incredible musician, it is his transparency and humility regarding his own marriage struggles that couples enjoy about him.
Join Serving Marriages as we partner with renowned speakers and best-selling authors Jeff and Shaunti Feldhahn who will reveal and provide practical ways for us to improve our marriages. Hundreds of interviews, national scientific surveys, and the infallible Word all line up and state the same truths! Having written the best-selling books, For Men Only, For Women Only, and For Parents Only, Jeff and Shaunti will let us in on major revelations that men and women have not understood about each other and how we can incorporate these revelations into our personal life, marriage, and family. Discover that there is POWER and influence when you incorporate these revelations. Can we truly understand our spouse? Is it important for us to be understood? The answer to both questions is "Yes." Our marriage, our children, their children, and their children's children become our living legacy of the love and direction we provided.
Also joining us as our Special Guest is singer and songwriter Michael O'Brien. While an incredible musician, it is his transparency and humility regarding his own marriage struggles that couples enjoy about him.
Serving Marriages invites you to our next retreat! Jeff and Debby McElroy of Forever Families will join us once again to lead us through the weekend. Throughout the retreat, Jeff and Debby will use their award-winning dramas and comedies to allow you to see the teaching anchored in everyday life. There will be time to share with your spouse, time for making memories, and time to experience something you'll refer back to for years as a landmark weekend in your marriage.
Also joining us as our Special Guest is singer and songwriter Michael O'Brien. While an incredible musician, it is his transparency and humility regarding his own marriage struggles that couples enjoy about him.
As an added bonus, Courageous, the next movie from the creators of FireProof, premieres September 30th. Serving Marriages has received special permission to premiere Courageous at WinShape. See this great movie about how honor starts at home.