Coffin Corner

                Our purpose for the Marriage and Family Track at the Lausanne Congress and Mission America Coalition Leadership Consultation is to expose church leaders and pastors to innovative programs, opportunities, and strategies to grow marriage strengthening work in their own church and community.

                This will be our first Love Is Here Live event which features a live video feed and the ability to sign in through Facebook and ask questions and join the on-line conversation. 

          Tune in to www.loveishere.com/live and share this link with pastors and lay leaders in your network who could use a jolt of inspiration and creative thinking about revving up marriage strengthening work in their world.

(Some of you may want to consider hosting this event on your own website through our syndicated Love Is Live widget. If you have a large distribution list and would like to invite your constituents to join this event on your own website please email andrea@loveishere.com.) 

                Many thanks to David Ferguson and Tim Popadic and all the amazing leaders (see program below) who agreed to pitch in to make this event happen.

                Blessings,

                Jeff Fray

                Chairman, Marriage CoMission Steering Committee

·         Will the Church make the difference?

1:15pm:  Media Research, "An Exhaustive Look at Content on TV" (Lance Mcalindon, Chief Research Officer, Front Porch Entertainment)

·         America's advertisers have discovered only a small percent of shows on TV are suitable content for their target customer: "moms with children"

·         Can the Church leverage "clean TV" to reach their community?  Discover some early adopter strategies

1:45pm:  Engaging Men in Strengthening Marriage and Family - (Brian Doyle, Iron Sharpens Iron; Stephen Kendrick, Sherwood Films; and Mitch Temple, Courageous Outreach Team)

·         Update on this national initiative to encourage spiritual leadership in the home and how you can get involved in your city

·         Introduction to the Courageous Film and information on how churches can leverage this film to lift up their own marriage and family outreach initiatives.

2:20pm: Online Audience Q&A with Stephen Kendrick

2:35pm:   The Love Is Journey - Live interview with Nathan and Brittany Fray

2:50pm:  National Marriage Week, USA (Chuck Stetson and Sheila Weber, National Marriage Week Organizers)

·      Why National Marriage Week?  What occurred in 2011?  How can we grow this initiative in 2012?

·      Discussion on how churches can leverage this week to highlight marriage and family priorities for the local church

 3:20pm:  The Art of Marriage, A video based marriage enrichment for Local Churches (Bill Eyster, Executive Vice President & COO of Family Life)

·          Family Life's new marriage strengthening program puts a dynamic, video-based program into the hands of marriage champions in local congregations.

·         How marriage organizations can re-tool to empower ordinary people to be effective marriage champions in the local church.    

3:50pm:  Marriage Ministry as Felt-Needs Evangelism  (Tim Popadic, Marriage Pastor at Christ Fellowship Church; Scott Mawdsley, National Director of Marriage Mentoring Initiative; and Les Parrot  author of "Complete Guide to Marriage Mentoring")

·         How a Date Night Initiative can grow a church and impact a community

·         When the public responds: How can the Church rise to the challenge of providing real help?  Can the Church be the hub of the marriage and family strengthening movement in America?   How can we grow the prevalence of marriage and family ministry in the local Church in 2011 and beyond?