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Marriage Retreat 2024

ACCFS hosted its second Marriage Retreat on November 15-17, 2024, in beautiful Ft. Lauderdale, FL! Enjoy time away with your spouse while growing your marriage with teaching sessions, discussion breakouts, activities, and more geared toward encouragement, learning, fellowship, and growth!

Main Sessions

#1: Navigating Emotional Patterns
This session focuses on understanding the territory of emotions. Our emotional climate creates patterns and cycles in our marriages. These patterns can either strengthen us or lead us to areas of disconnect and hurt. In this session and its subsequent discussion, learn how to identify these patterns in your marriage and how to shift them into areas of strength. (This session has a suggested pre-work activity.)
#2: Growing Spiritual Union as a Couple
Our spiritual union as a couple serves as the foundation of our marriage. In this morning session, we will review activities designed to create focus and intimacy in several areas of our spiritual life. Couples will be given time to work on these activities on the Pompano Beach boardwalk.
#3: Reparative Communication
Conflict is inevitable in marriage. But healthy dialogue through differences can actually help deepen a marriage relationship. This session and its subsequent workshop focus on applying simple yet profound communication principles to your marriage and will give participants an opportunity to learn and practice skills which help navigate difficult conversations.
#4: Emotional & Physical Intimacy
God’s design for marital sexuality includes both emotional connection and physical responsiveness. However, busy lives, stress, and skewed messages from the world can get in the way of experiencing the full blessing He desires for us in this area. This presentation and discussion focus on four practical ways couples can deepen their emotional intimacy while enhancing sexual fulfillment. (Couples will be encouraged to preview some content ahead for this session.)
#5: Nurturing Lasting Joy in Your Marriage
Joy in marriage is a powerful bonding agent. This Sunday morning session will walk through several simple, practical, and yet profound ways in which joy can be nurtured in your marriage each day. These simple, nurturing ways can become a powerful legacy for marriage relationships as well as an example for those around us.

 

Schedule

Friday, November 15th – Ft. Lauderdale Church
5:30 – 6:00pm Registration Open
6:00 – 7:00pm Meal Together
7:00 – 8:00pm Session #1- Learning & Navigating Emotional Patterns
8:00 – 8:45pm Couples Time w/ Share Out
8:45pm Dismissal

Saturday, November 16th – Home2Suites by Hilton, Pompano Beach Pier
8:15 – 8:30am Arrival
8:30 – 9:00am Session #2- Growing Spiritual Union as a Couple
9:00 – 10:00am Couples Time
10:00 – 10:15am Share Out Time
10:30 – 11:45am Session #3- Reparative Communication
12:00pm –1:30pm Lunch & Fellowship
1:30 – 2:00pm Session #4- Emotional & Physical Intimacy
2:00 – 2:30pm Couples Time w/ Share Out
2:30pm Dismissal

Sunday, November 17th – Ft. Lauderdale Church
10:00 Arrival
10:15 am Song Worship
10:30 – 11:30 am Session #5- Nurturing Lasting Joy in Your Marriage
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Lunch and Fellowship
12:30 – 1:30 pm Worship Together & 2nd Service
1:30 pm Farewells

All times are EST.

Click here for PDF of schedule.

A big thank you to the Ft. Lauderdale Church for hosting and partnering with ACCFS!