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Sacred Conversations Workshop – January 31st
THIS IS A FREE WORKSHOP! IF YES, THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR YOU! Sacred Conversations A workshop, facilitated by Agape Christian Counseling Services therapists JuJuane Easter-Hutchins and Mary Singleton, that provides a safe environment for conversations between races for the purpose of education, understanding, growth and change. Date: Saturday, January 31, 2015 Time: 9AM- 3PM Cost: This workshop is FREE! (Please bring a SACK LUNCH for an interactive lunch. Bottled water provided.) Location: Grace Bible Church (click below for directions) 1912 Central Parkway, Florissant, MO 63031 Please RSVP by 1/28/15: call 314-398-7949 (JuJuane) or 314-502-9841 (Mary)
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‘Parenting the Love and Logic Way’ Comes to Agape
By Kathy Bleitner, MEd, LPC Agape Christian Counseling has recently started offering Parenting the Love and Logic Way Classes! What is Love and Logic? Love and Logic is a philosophy of raising and teaching children, which allows adults to be happier, empowered, and more skilled in their interactions with children. Love allows children to grow through their mistakes. Logic allows children to live with the consequences of their choices. Love and Logic is a way of working with children that puts parents back in control, teaches children to be responsible, and prepares young people to live in the real world with its many choices and consequences. Love and Logic tells…
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New Beginnings: Rebuilding and Repairing Relationships
Couples frequently come to my office with relational injuries, wondering if their marriage can be repaired. Individuals and couples may feel there has been such damage and destruction in the relationship that any hope of making amends, repairing the damage, is hopeless. Restoration and redemption in relationships is available through Christ. As we enter this new year, I am led to encourage Agape readers that in Christ, all things are possible. If you are having trouble communicating with your partner, especially during the process of healing, you may find that learning new patterns of communication can be difficult. According to psychologist and researcher John Gottman, repairing relationships during and after…
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How to Forgive the Unforgivable
By Cathy Downen, MA, MA, PLPC At Agape Christian Counseling Services, we assist many people who are struggling to find freedom in the aftermath of feeling deep hurts. We help clients cope with the results of living in a fallen world and journey with them on the road to recovery from all varieties of abuse, addictions, infidelity, poverty, racism, grief, illness, unemployment, and many other kinds of problems. Many times, the inevitable questions arise: How can I ever forgive? Does God expect me to forgive even that? Is it really necessary to forgive? What forgiveness is: Every Christian understands the Biblical concept that there is healing in forgiveness, and we’re…