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    Bridge to Wholeness | Volume 2 Issue 1 January 2015

    Welcome to the January 2015 Issue of the Agape newsletter, Bridge to Wholeness! Our monthly newsletter is the best way for you to keep up with what is going on around Agape, with events and updates, and articles written by our counselors. We hope it will help bring you a little bit closer to emotional, mental, and spiritual wholeness! In this issue (click to read individual articles): How to Forgive the Unforgivable by Cathy Downen, MA, MA, PLPC ‘Parenting the Love and Logic Way’ Comes to Agape by Kathy Bleitner, MEd, LPC New Beginnings: Rebuilding and Repairing Relationships by Kathryn Manley, MS, LPC, CST Gospel Driven Parenting by Carolyn Knarr, MSW, LCSW…

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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)

  • Parenting the Love and Logic Way Comes to Agape

    ‘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…