Legacy

... Building a Strong a Community by Supporting Healthy Marriages, Families and Individuals

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Dear Friends,

The world is facing challenges like never before, but during these di cult times, we need to come together and make a di erence. That is why we are excited to announce our virtual fundraising campaign from May 9 through June 30th.

In the following pages, we tell where we have come, why we exist, what we are doing and where we are going!. We give examples of the amazing work that Friends of the Family is doing and how your support can make a real di erence in the lives of those in need.

We would love for you to spread the word about Friends of the Family and invite your friends and family to become a Legacy Builder.

In His Name,

Dave Jackson, Executive Director

The Legacy of Founder Kenneth HImes

Since 1994, Friends of the Family has served the Willamette Valley promoting healthy relationships and healthy homes through education and counseling.

Kenneth HImes, founder of Friends of the Family, was a connector, whether helping people forge healthy relationships in their homes, or helping faith communities and the larger community come together for common causes. His work took him into the counseling o ce as a relationship coach and therapist, and into the community as relationship skills educator and community networker. He enjoyed discovering gaps in relationships at all levels, and building bridges to span those gaps -marriages were restored, parent-child relationships healed, engaged couples formed solid foundations, churches and schools became partners, state social services and faith communities bene tted the poor and the outcast, and children found foster homes and safety.

In XXXX, after serving XX years as a pastor, Dave Jackson was appointed Executive Director to carry on the leadership and legacy of Kenneth Himes.

2012: Ken & Mary Himes presented "Tools for Two in Business” for couples who own and operate a business together to learn communication and problem-solving skills as well as network with similar

Our goal is to restore the Biblical Legacy of Marriage and Family

The Need . . .

Marriages are at an all-time low. We know that a Healthy Family Structure is a Solid Foundation.

● It provides sound emotional and intellectual development.

● It helps resolve behavioral issues and promote healthy psychological development.

● It boosts individual thinking and personal self-worth when thoughts are expressed in an accepting environment.

● It provides proper role models for children, laying the foundation for strong values.

● It fosters emotional trust in a loving environment, leading to empathy and compassion for others.

● It displays unconditional love, creating security and acceptance of God’s unconditional love for us.

We provide the keys to Build a Legacy of healthy homes and marriages. . .

“One generation of Christian marriage well lived would transform the world.”

JP DE GANCE

Meeting the Need

Counseling and Mentoring Team working with couples, families, individuals and children

Sherry Doggett

Holly Berry

Jessica Carter

Alicia Deal

Jim Saemenes Program Director

Dave Jackson Executive Director

Building

Relationship Education

The skills developed in The Third Option are helpful for any marriage, and couples attending the program range from those on the brink of divorce to those yearning to make a good marriage even better. Many couples assume that their marriage is strong and e ective, and don’t invest the time to ensure that it grows better over time. Then, all it takes is a new stressproblems with jobs, kids, parents, or health- and even the best marriage becomes frayed or unraveled. Developing the right skills and sensitivity is the best way to ensure that a good marriage grows even better.

“It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”

Dietrich Bonhoe er

• Building a Climate of Respect

• Responsibility and the Blame Game

• Understanding Expectations

• Redefining the Power Struggle

• Control Issues in Marriage

• Listening Beyond the Words

• Personality Differences in Marriage

• Childhood Issues and Emotional Baggage

• Handling Anger Constructively

• Speaking the Truth in Loving Ways

• Resolving Conflict in Healthy Ways

• The Hurt Cycle in Marriage

• Forgiveness in Marriage

• Building Trust in Your Marriage

Vince and Angela Schwindt

FOFM Famly Life Educators

The Third Option Facilitators

“We know a couple that was in the Third Option program and told us how it saved their marriage. They started to go to this program and are back together again.”

Anonymous

With 14 stand-alone topics which are cycled through, couples can join The Third Oprtion at any time.

Nearly- and Newly- Wed Workshop

To start new marriages o right, we hold an annual workshop each spring for engaged and newly married couples which includes:

• Online pre-workshop assessment

• Lunch at the workshop

• Workbook and helpful tools

• Three 60-minute post-workshop sessions with one of our quali ed counselors.

Marriage Mentoring

Friends of the Family is growing a network of trained Marriage Mentors.

These volunteer couples are equipped to come alongside another couple in a very structured and intentional process that has proven to be very e ective in three di erent ways:

Preparing a couple for marriage

Taking a marriage from good to great; and even Helping couples work through di cult issues and heal past hurts

Marriage Retreats

Marriage Retreats allow couples to take time from noise and distraction and get into a place of spiritual refreshing and renewing. Couples take time together to fellowship with other couples, learn great marriage principles to strengthen bonds and focus on one another.

Created for Connection

Created for Connection is an engaging workshop for Christian couples designed to help you repair, build and strenthen your bond to one another. A strong sense of connection to God and our loved one gives us a safe haven from which to courageously engage our world.

The workshop combines biblical truths with the well-researched and highly e ective Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Copules, helping husbands and wives become all that God created us to be and deepening the husband-wife connection that He intended for us to experience in marriage.

Bringing Baby Home

Bringing Baby Home is a research based workshop dedicated to improving the quality of life for babies and children by strengthening their families. Developed by renowned relationship and parenting experts John and Julie Gottman, the Bringing Baby Home workshop is for those who are:

• Interested in having a baby

• Expecting a baby

• Already parenting an infant or toddler (0-3)

The goal of Bringing Baby Home is to equip you with the knowledge and skills sets needed to constructively cope with the various changes that typically occur during the rst three years after your baby is born.

RelateStrong

• New insights into marriages, couples, relationships, and individual selfs

• Healing and increased understanding in the most important relationships can contribute to healing and understanding in all relationships

• New intimacy and growth in relationships can occur through greater understanding of reaction patterns, fears, and other individuals' pain

• A new sense of empowerment and freedom as to how you can a ect change in your relationships and interactions

• Exploration of similarities and di erences in personality and spiritual gifting provides another rich avenue for deeper understanding and appreciation

• Learn how to set healthy boundaries through improved communication

Love & Logic

The Love and Logic approach to parenting is built around the science of caring and respectful relationships. An authentic, loving connection between parents and their children forms the foundation of good behavior and healthy decision-making.

Sounds easy enough but never before in history have parents been faced with so many challenges! Our approach provides a variety of simple strategies and our techniques will help you create calm and loving solutions.

Comedy Date Night

Featuring premiere West Coast comedians, Comedy Date Night is a high quality, hilarious, “clean” fun evening for couples. The positive energy and laughter make it great fun and a night to remember.

Give your marriage a well-deserved date night! Enjoy an evening of laughter together to strengthen your bond and reduce stress. Comedy Date Nights are held twice a year.

Couples in Cars Getting Closer

Running on empty thinking of date night ideas?

Take a drive around our beautiful Willamette Valley and discover new things about your own backyard –and your partner!

Download a map and a few short podcasts to spark conversation along the way and you will be ready and set to go. The annual in-person event takes place each August, but the map and podcasts are available year-round on our website for you to explore the route on your own at a time that ts your schedule.

Community Outreach

Marriage Initiative

Jim give an update here on what it is, what is happening and how to get involved.

Community Education Schools

Faith and community education plays an essential role in strengthening children and families, while also empowering our local community to be good stewards of their health and wellness. We address current topics.

Community Education Churches

This is where we talk about our availability to speak at churches, give presentations, hold classes, etc.

Training New Counselors Through Internships

This is where we discuss the bene t of training new counselors, giving them an opportunity to ful ll credits, etc. as well as provide low-cost counseling services to the community.

Looking to the Future

Your Generous Gift will allow Friends of the Family Ministries to:

• Continue to provide quality Christian counseling services at a ordable out-of-pocket rates;

• Continue to Community Outreach to schools;

• Partner with more churches who are interested;

• Continue to provide clean, fun community events;

• Expand the Ministry's impact by creating and promoting a local Marriage Initiative;

• Expand our counseling sta to accommodate the needs of our community.

Partner with us today to create a Legacy of Healthy Marriages, Relationships and Families!

Friends of the Family is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization

All gifts are tax-deductible.

Builders 2023 Fundraising Goal

GOAL

$40,000

$40,000 by June 1st

$33,500

$20,000

Will you help us meet the goal by giving a gift today?