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 Ecumenical Continuing Education

Purpose: To promote Stephen Ministry by working together to provide meaningful continuing education sessions each year.

The Network offers Ecumenical Continuing Education sessions once or twice each year. Usually these are offered on a Saturday morning with an outside speaker. Different Stephen Leaders take turns planning and hosting these events. For example, one ecumenical continuing education event offered by the network on Alzheimer’s Disease was attended by over 30 individuals.

Schedule: April 28, 2007, Saturday morning

RSVP: by 4/20/07 Genelle King – 574-277-9085

Program:

8:30-9:00 a.m. Registration and Light Breakfast

9:00-10:30 a.m. Forgiveness

What constitutes forgiveness?
How do we know when we have really forgiven something?
What are the blocks to forgiveness?
Will I be a "doormat" if I forgive?

These and other questions will be pursued in the presentation of Forgiveness offered by: Tony Garascia, MS, LCSW, Clinical Director at the Samaritan Counseling Center, South Bend. Mr. Garascia is the author of Rekindle the Passion While Raising the Kids, and has dealt with the issue of forgiveness in his clinical practice. He will present research on the benefits and costs to forgiving another person, as well as make comments as to how forgiveness and reconciliation have implications for our global village.


10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Forgiveness continued

Where:
Christ the King Lutheran Church
17195 Cleveland Road
South Bend, Indiana