Enabling each couple to enjoy their fun times and celebrate life together is one purpose of the Plantings. The minimum amount of leisure time that couples allow themselves needs a quality of enjoyment that in child-like.
In its Together -Time and Play-Time, the Plantings provides an opportunity for growth in this essential aspect of Christian marriage.
Part of the Plantings Retreat is experiencing the "WOW" of a new insight. "Hey, that's what I do-and I can see what to do to change that!" This kind of exclamation is often heard among the participants in The Plantings Retreat. Such eye-openers punctuate the kind of personal growth that keeps marriages fresh in these challenging times.
In spite of the increasing divorce rate, plenty of couples are ready to invest time and energy to see their own marriages thrive and grow. When these couples get together in a Plantings Retreat, a lot of mutual support is felt. It is encouraging to know other couples like you are seeking the same things with the same fear of risk. The Plantings encourage mates to find ways to affirm each other calmly, getting them in touch with the strengths of their marriage.
Skill building is an important part of the Plantings experience. How to communicate effectively, express feelings constructively, settle conflicts fairly, and plan your marriage hopefully are some of the practical skills learned during the retreat.
The openness encouraged by the Plantings Retreat permits couples to assess themselves and their marriages in an optimistic atmosphere. Out of this open self-regard, the couples learn to build a new marriage contract that arises directly out of the meeting of needs in a changing , growing marital partnership.
It's biblical foundation, its wholesome atmosphere, and its theological emphasis reveal the Plantings retreat to be thoroughly Christian by design. The themes of sacrificial love, gracious acceptance and forgiveness, and loving confrontation are all distinct contributions to the Christian marriage by the example and teachings of Jesus Christ. The Plantings Retreat is planned to major on their distinctions.
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