The scriptural heart of our vision for Family Life is Deuteronomy 6, which tells us to “impress these truths [God’s commands] on our children as we rise up, go along the way and lie down.” The ultimate goal of Family Life Night (FLN) is to see families growing closer to God and each other in such a way that results in God’s name being magnified.
FLN classes are offered on Wednesday night each week from 6:30 to 8:00 pm in the RCC Education Building and the Winter 2010 semester started on January 13th. Available courses, facilitators, room numbers, and descriptions are further below. You can register here online.
We also offer exciting programs for kids fourth grade through eighth grade – Area 56 & Uprising 78. For children under fourth grade, we have a full service nursery, and two children’s programs – Steppin’ Up & Steppin’ Up Junior. There’s a $5.00 registration fee for all children under fourth grade. When you register online you will have the option to register and pay for your children, otherwise, please register on the RCC campus.
If you have questions or need more information please contact Craig Keller or call 951-200-9993. Download a Family Life Night Campus Map.
WINTER SEMESTER CLASSES BEGINNING ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13TH
***Detailed class information is further down this page***
- Bringing Up Boys - Dr. James Dobson Book/DVD Series
- The DNA of Relationships – Dr. Gary Smalley Book/DVD Series
- Marriage With Children – Pastor Scott Treadway Program
- Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage – Pastor Mark Gungor DVD Series
- Family Ministry for Teens - Pastors Mike Johnson and Don Liversage Program
- Growing in Christ Together – Brad Inman Program
- Financial Peace University – Dave Ramsey Financial Management Program (Book/DVD)
- Employment/Career Development - Tony Casadonte Program
- Love and Respect – Dr. Emerson E. Eggerichs Book/DVD Series
- Parenting on Purpose (the Balance of Love and Discipline ) – Dr. Bob Barnes DVD Series
- Edificando Nuestro Hogar (La Familia y Educacion de Los Hijos) – Spanish Speaking Marriage and Family Program by Pastor Javier Mendivil
DETAILED CLASS INFORMATION ~ Facilitator(s), Room Number, and Description
IMPORTANT NOTE – There is a cost associated with most classes for small group workbooks. Please bring check or cash to class. Thank you.
Bringing Up Boys – Dr. Dobson DVD Series
Facilitator(s): Craig and Joni Keller
Room: C109/110
Cost: $10 for small group participant guide
Finally, some sensible advice and caring encouragement on raising boys—from the nation’s most trusted parenting authority, Dr. James Dobson.
With so much confusion about the role of men in our society, it’s no wonder so many parents and teachers are at a loss about how to bring up boys. Our culture has vilified masculinity and, as a result, boys are suffering.
Parents, teachers, and others involved in shaping the character of boys have many questions:
• Are boys fundamentally different from girls?
• What role does competition play in a boy’s development?
• What is a father’s unique contribution to parenting a son?
• What about a mom’s role?
• How can grandparents contribute to raising a healthy grandson?
• What’s the best way to educate boys?
• What advice is available for single parents of sons?
• What causes homosexuality? Can it be prevented?
• What should we be doing to shape the next generation of men?
In Bringing Up Boys, Dr. James Dobson tackles these questions and offers advice and encouragement based on a firm foundation of biblical principles.
Parents will benefit from Dr. Dobson’s decades of expertise as he share the secrets of raising boys and answers important questions in this lively, relevant, and life-changing presentation from Focus on the Family®. The DVD Series and accompanying workbook will equip parents with the practical understanding, dynamic biblical principles, and encouragement they need to steer the boys they care about toward confident, responsible manhood.
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The DNA of Relationships – Dr. Gary Smalley Series
Facilitator(s): Keith and Shawn Johnson/Rick and Sharon Shafer
Room: C103
Cost: $10 for the small group study guide
Have you ever felt as if you’re REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES IN YOUR RELATIONSHIPS?
Dr. Gary Smalley tells you the whys and hows of relationships. He illustrates the DNA of relationships, showing how each one of us is uniquely designed for healthy relationships with friends, family, and coworkers. You don’t have to live with dysfunctional relationships anymore!
Understanding how you are designed will start you on a journey to healthy and enjoyable relationships. The following topics will be covered in this course:
- Discovering the DNA of Love: There are three key choices that bring you complete satisfaction in life. You’ll understand how to balance God’s DNA of love by loving God and others as yourself. Also, find out how God created men and women different and how to use these differences to create great relationships.
- The Power of One: You are not a victim in the world of relationships! Nothing or no one can take away your joy in life. Learn the four ways you can positively impact all your most important relationships.
- Create a Safe Place for Love: Learn four ways to create a safe place for others where love can flourish. When two people feel safe in one another’s presence, they naturally open up to each other and love flows from openness.
- Eliminate the #1 Cause of Relational Conflict: Without realizing it, when conflict comes between two people, they are both allowing each other to push an internal “hot button.” Discover your core button and why that affects everything you do!
- God’s Fuel for Your Soul: God wants you to be satisfied so that you can become a channel of His love to others. Too many broken relationships are directly linked to our inability to find God’s fuel for our soul. As we take love ourselves, we can then love others.
- Create Harmony through Communication: Connect to the heart of another person by learning how to successfully communicate. When you understand how someone feels, the other person let’s you connect in a way that makes everyday conversation come alive
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Married with Children
Facilitator(s): Scott and Jenny Treadway
Room: C102
Cost: None at this time.
For many parents, children quickly become the first priority. These little ”blessings” that depend on us for everything from food to clothing to love can demand almost all of our energy and attention. Still, it is extremely important after having children to make sure that your marriage comes first.
If your marriage is not strong, your children will be able to feel it. If husband and wife are constantly arguing and bickering, and seldom or never affectionate, children will learn to behave this way when they grow up. Children have an amazing ability to sense when things are wrong. It is important that you demonstrate the ability to work through problems together to your children. In addition, if you are not both on the same page as parents, your parenting can become contradictory and confusing for your children.
Putting your marriage first insures that your needs are being met. When you are on an airplane, the airline attendants always tell you to put the oxygen mask on yourself before putting it on your children, so that you are stable enough to help them. It is the same way with marriage. By keeping your marriage strong, you keep yourself strong and much better able to care for your children.
By putting your marriage first, you not only help your spouse, you help your children.
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Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage – Small Group Study based on Pastor Mark Gungor’s hilarious, yet practical perspective for building a loving, warm, light-hearted marriage
Facilitator(s): Derrick and Faith Danskin/Bob Porter
Room: C106
Cost: $10 for the small group study guide
Experience Mark’s hilarious, practical, and no-holds-barred advice about relationships through this eight week study. Laugh and learn as you explore the underlying dynamics of male/female relationships and practical solutions to common relationship woes.
Through this small group study, couples will learn Mark’s honest and hard-hitting insights, discuss and interact with each other, and be able to make real, positive changes in their marriages. The accompanying study guide can also be used by individual couples to strengthen, improve, and enrich their marriage. In addition, its a great tool for pre-marital instruction.
Together, you, your facilitator and your group will experience the side-splitting fun of Mark’s unique look at love, life, and marriage that has made him one of the country’s top marriage speakers.
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Family Ministry for Teens
Facilitator(s): Mike Johnson/Don and Karen Liversage
Room: F202
Cost: $15 for the course workbook(s)
Parenting teenagers is challenging and rewarding. Many parents believe the problem is the teenager. In this class we will approach this topic by discussing what is missing in much of our “solutions” today and exploring Gods’ intention for the family.
Our approach will be to look at what the scripture envisions for family life and how it relates to the local church – a “Family of Families.” We will discover how belonging to a Family of Families, and raising our children together (resisting the temptation to either ignore or hyper focus on the teen) can be the most amazing journey and learning experience of our lives.
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Growing in Christ Together
Facilitator(s): Brad Inman
Room: C114
Cost: None at this time.
You asked Christ to come into your heart at some point in your life and you are struggling with how to be a devoted follower. Perhaps you feel isolated from God, or you are brand new to the Christian faith. What does it really mean to be a Christian? You want to know Christ more intimately, but you aren’t sure how to go about doing that. Do you have to read your Bible more? Pray more? Be a better person?
This course will teach you how you can have abundant life in Christ, to grow in your knowledge of God and who you are in God’s kingdom. You will learn how to increase your faith so that you can experience true “inexpressible” joy. You will understand what it means to “surrender” to our Lord Jesus Christ. And best of all, you will have the opportunity to participate on your own or as a couple.
Inman’s spiritual journey is one that all Christian’s can identify with. This course will inspire and motivate you to become an active participant in your salvation (Philippians 2:12). It teaches battle-worn Christians to break out of their “holy huddles” and encourages all believers to find renewed life, strength and comfort through their relationship with Christ.
Topics covered are as follows:
- Is the Bible true?
- What do I believe and why?
- What does God think about me?
- Who am I in Christ?
- What does it really mean to be “saved”?
- What does it mean to be “Sanctified”, set apart for God’s use?
- What is abundant life as a Christian?
- What does it mean to surrender all to Jesus?
- What does God have in mind for my life?
- How do I apply the Bible to my daily life?
- How can I reach others for Christ?
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Financial Peace University (FPU)
Facilitator(s): Mike Samaras
Room: C112/113
Cost: $99.51 for the FPU Membership Kit if ordered through RCC on or before 1/4/10. Otherwise, $130.00 directly from DaveRamsey.com. ContactCraig Keller or call 951-200-9993 for more information about ordering your Membership Kit.
Most people struggle to make ends meet. They just have too much month left at the end of the money. If you have made mistakes and feel like your money vanishes each month, you are not alone. In fact, 70% of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck, regardless of income.
Financial Peace University is designed to teach you and your family how to get out of debt, stay out of debt, and build wealth. You’ll meet with your class each week to watch the video lesson and participate in discussion and accountability groups that will change your whole attitude about money.
Are you ready to take the first step? Follow this link. Here you will find everything you need to know including information about your FPU membership kit. It is suggested that you have your kit in time for the first class on September 16, 2009.
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Employment/Career Development
Facilitator(s): Tony CasadonteRoom: C104
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you” Psalm 32:8. In today’s tough job market navigating the right course to a job can be a daunting task without a good foundation of basic career skills. In this class, you’ll learn and practice essentials of job search topics. Whether you are an active job seeker or someone looking to refresh and hone your skills, you’ll find a variety of topics from job networking to effective Internet methods, and valuable confidence building tools.
Topics Covered:
Skills Assessment, Identifying Goals and Objectives, Survival Skills, Resume Basics, Interviewing Skills, Job Search Methods, Internet Job Search, and Effective Networking.
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Love and Respect
Facilitator (s): Rich and Diedre Zirpel
Room: C107/108
Cost: $10 for the small group study workbook
Based on over three decades of counseling, as well as scientific and biblical research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs and his wife, Sarah, have already taken the Love and Respect message across America and are changing the way couples talk to, think about, and treat each other.
What do you want for your marriage? Want some peace? Want to feel close? Want to feel valued? Want to experience marriage the way God intended?
Then why not try some Love and Respect.
DVD class with a focus on enriching your marriage and learning ways to change negative cycles into positive health and wholeness in your home.
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Parenting on Purpose ~ the Balance of Love and Discipline
Facilitator (s): Paul and Anna Scheer
Room: C105
Cost: $10 for the Parenting Workbook
Parenting is hard work! Today’s culture brings more distractions for parents and more difficulties for children, but parents cannot allow themselves to get distracted by all the opportunities and activities. Moms and dads must make the “choice” to parent on purpose. They must choose to raise responsible children. This Parenting on Purpose training program will help parents think through and implement a parenting approach that will prepare their children for adulthood. Parenting on Purpose 101 - The Balance of Love and Discipline is an interactive training program to help parents learn, discuss, and view on video a step-by-step plan for training children in life skills.
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Edificando Nuestro Hogar (La Familia y Educacion de los hijos)
Spanish Speaking Marriage and Family Class
Facilitator (s): Pastor Javier and Rosa Mendivil
Room: C101
Edificando Nuestro Hogar
La Familia: Que es la Familia? Communicacion y respeto. Como restaurar nuestra/Communicacion con la pareja. El Rol del Hombre/El Rol de la Mujer. Padres de éxito.
Educacion de los hijos: Amor, Disciplina, corrección y Ejemplo. Obstáculos que impiden la disciplina de los hijos. Amor falso, Casos en los que no se debe disciplinar. Padres descuidados, excusas para no disciplinar. Algunas reglas de la disciplina y algunas maneras incorrectas de disciplina/Derechos de los padres.
Día/Horario: Todos los miércoles de 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Cuidado de niños: De 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Duración: 8 semanas
Inscripciones: 10 y 13 de JANUARY después de cada servicio en Rancho Community Church y todos los Domingos después del servicio en Español en Grupo Unidad Cristiana Temecula.