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SUMMARY:Keeping the Flames Blazing
DESCRIPTION:\n\nView video – click picture\n\n \n \n\n\nYou are invited to spend a weekend together alone to enhance the gift of marriage that God has designed for you!!  Married couples and pre-marriage couples will have the opportunity to allow their relationships to be blazing units of God’s love.  Plenary sessions, specific break-out sessions, delicious meals in a beautiful hotel environment – develop friendships with other couples learn the tools to light or keep lit your flames, and much more…\n \nMarlon & Denise Johnson\nCentral States Conference – Family Ministries Directors\n \n\n\n\n\nYOUR GUEST FACILITATORS: Oliver and Denise Marcelle – Denoli LLC – first established “Marriage is our Ministry” in 2013 a blogging couple encouragement outlet.  In the years since,  through speaking, facilitating and mentoring/coaching they utilize their God-inspired ministry of helping couples communicate without frustration  and judgement, increase intimacy and build the relationship of their dreams.  As authors, speakers and marriage strategists, they use seminars, coaching and all forms of social media to share their journey offering a candid look at their own 22 year marriage, the goal being to encourage couples.  In interactive ways they encourage couples and help them to explore, grow and learn together.\n \n \nWEEKEND ITINERARY\nFRIDAY\nHotel Check-in – 3:00 pm\nRetreat Check-in – 4:00 pm\n“Portable Repast in Nature” (Boxed Dinner) – 5:00 pm\nPlenary Session – I – 6:30 pm\n“Igniting the Flames”\n \nSABBATH (SATURDAY)\nBreakfast – 8:30 am\nSabbath Morning – Breakout Sessions – 10:00 am\nPlenary Session – II – 11:30 am\n” Does God really want our Flames to Blaze?”\nDinner – 1:30 pm\nSabbath Afternoon Breakout Sessions – 3:30 pm\nSaturday Night Gala – 8:00 pm\n“Blazing Flames and Tennis Shoe Gala” – (semi-formal/formal attire with tennis shoes)\n \nSUNDAY\nBrunch – 10 am\nPlenary Session -III\n“What is keeping your flames from blazing?” – 11:00pm\nClosing – 1:00 pm\n \n \n \nBREAKOUT SESSIONS\n\n1-A – Balancing the Flames with Dirty diapers and little league games – Louis-Juenes – CANCELLED\n1-B – Don’t let Snow on the Rooftop drip down on your flames (older couples intimacy) – Bernards\n1-C – Holding your Flames ’til you have a Fireplace – (what is “intimacy” for the pre-marriage couple) – Josiahs\n1-E – Are you ready for the “no robe” season? (Couples with a new “empty-nest”) – Ikners\n\n \n \n\n2-A – Can an extinguished flame be relit with new wood? (Second or third marriages) – Palmers\n2-B – When loss throws a water bucket on your flame (impact of loss on intimacy) – McKenzies\n2-C – Career vs Flames – which wins? (Does intimacy stand a chance with the power couple) – Collins\n2-D – When Health blows on the Flames (working through health issues impacting intimacy) – Williamsons\n\n\n\n\n\nHotel Registration Link – Reservation deadline – EXTENDED TO March 31, 2025\n\n\nBooking Link: https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/deeplink/?ctyhocn=MCIAPHF&groupCode=91H&arrivaldate=2025-04-04&departuredate=2025-04-06&cid=OM,WW,HILTONLINK,EN,DirectLink&fromId=HILTONLINKDIRECT\n\n\n\n\n
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