Counselor Training Guide

Through the Birth of a Family Program clients are introduced to the hope that a lasting nuclear family can be achieved where fathers, mothers and children, live and grow together and, more importantly, are given the help they need to succeed. Introduction

Our Mission : Our mission is to promote the founding and strong growth of Biblical households through ministries of involvement.God Husband Wife Child

Statistics and the Need Single parents head a third of family households with children under 18. Half of American children will live in a single parent household at some point in their childhood. Since the 1980’s the number of children born to unmarried women per year has quadrupled. During that same time the number of single mothers has increased more than 300%. Daily in America, 1,186 babies are born to teen mothers. 3,742 babies are born daily to unmarried mothers

Powerful Results More likely to be enrolled in school Have good health Are less likely to become un- wed parents themselves before age 17 than those children living with only one parent. Girls with single parents were more than twice as likely to commit suicide than were girls with two parents. Children of single parents faced a dramatically higher probability of dying of drug or alcohol addiction.”

How the program works It is a program that captures opportunities presented when women seek the counsel of crisis pregnancy centers to offer the hope and help needed to take their children home to lasting nuclear families. We offer the program to Pregnancy Care Centers as a gift which includes everything needed to explore opportunities already occurring in pregnancy care centers converting them into lasting nuclear households where fathers, mothers and their children live and grow together in one home.

The POWERFUL Results Relationships with the Family and with God are strengthened Fathers, mothers and children living and growing together in one home Laborers are added to the harvest Fathers are coming home Triune Covenant Weddings

Impact ! Counselors Make the Difference !

Brochure

TopicalCurriculum Overview Overview

Session 1 The Birth of a Family Key Objectives  Illustrate the typical initiation and development of courtship and familial relationships.  Discuss the fundamental motivators involved.  Change the foundation of relationships. 1 session The Birth of a Family

Session 2 An Eternal Perspective Key Objectives  Discover the eternal nature of human beings and their relationships  Understand generational aspects of eternity  Change to an ‘Eternal Perspective’ 2 session An Eternal Perspective

Who are You? Key Objectives  Identify ourselves in relation to God  Understand how He made us  Understand how He made others (spouses and children)  Change our perspective of ourselves and others © 2008 Family Enterprising, Inc. Birth of a Family is a program of Family Enterprising. All Rights reserved. Session 3 3 Who are You? session

Love Is… Key Objectives  Recite the world’s definition of love  Learn the Biblical definition of love  Change our expression of love to reflect the ‘Truth’ © 2008 Family Enterprising, Inc. Birth of a Family is a program of Family Enterprising. All Rights reserved. 4 Who are You? session

Friends Family and God Key Objectives Demonstrate the importance and impacts of other relationships that will either support or be obstacles to founding and growing strong Biblical households. Three key categories to consider:  Friends  Family  God 5 session Love is…

Born Again Key Objectives All this only matters if you’re born again. Why segment six of seven? Why not share the gospel sooner? In the course of using this matrix for over a decade, two answers emerge.  This entire matrix is about the Gospel  This matrix affirms pursuits that are not humanly possible, the gospel at this point is ‘The Only Answer ’ © 2008 Family Enterprising, Inc. Birth of a Family is a program of Family Enterprising. All Rights reserved. 6 session Friends, Family and God

Triune Covenants Key Objectives A paradigm shift from common place two party covenant relationships to an extraordinarily powerful triune covenant relationship. 7 session Triune Covenant

God Husband Wife Closing Our single key metric is changed lives. Lives changed in a manner reflecting the miraculous power of God.

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