Classes, Seminars, Small Groups

Women of Excellence Ministry offers several opportunities for recovery, growth, and learning. Please check our home page for current offerings.

Below are brief descriptions of our programs.

Becomers Recovery Class For Women

Authored by Lynn Heitritter & Jeanette Vought

What is becomers?

A 9-week abuse recovery course designed to promote mental, emotional, and spiritual healing through group sharing for women.

How does this program help?

It helps victims of childhood or adult experiences, identify hidden trauma that continues to interfere with their emotional and spiritual growth in relationships.

This program is based on the TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD. It reveals distorted images of God and teaches how to share inner feelings. It reveals God's desire for you to forgive, while establishing you in worthiness of Christ and the freedom to walk in His image.

Areas covered during class will include:

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Boundaries

Authored by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

Boundaries, What are they?

A boundary is a personal property line that marks those things for which we are responsible. In other words, boundaries define who we are and who we are not. Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Boundaries impact all areas of our lives.

Physical Boundaries
Help us determine who may touch us and under what circumstances.

Mental Boundaries
Help give us the freedom to have our own thoughts and opinions.

Emotional Boundaries
Help us to deal with our own emotions and disengage from the harmful, manipulative emotions of others.

Spiritual Boundaries
Help us to distinguish God's will from our own and give us a renewed awe for our Creator.

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The Choosing to Forgive Workbook

Authored by Carter & Minirth

A 12-part comprehensive class to help you overcome your struggles to forgive and find lasting healing. Discover contentment and peace that comes with letting go of harmful anger.

Perhaps there have been times you've felt stuck in bitterness, discouragement or cynicism. Maybe you've asked "How can I forgive when I hurt as badly as I do?" Or you've had moments when you thought you'd truly forgiven, only to have anger return You may have been taught that anger is bad, that Christians can't be angry or that nothing good ever results from anger.

The class allows you to personalize the information and develop a plan that will lead to real results. This class will teach you how to increase your ability to forgive by:

The choice is yours: debilitating anger or forgiveness that frees you to expend your energy on emotionally healthy goals and more satisfying pursuits, such as love, respect, confidence, and servitude. Choose forgiveness and start on the path toward a life of abundance.

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The Five Languages of Apology

Authored by Gary Chapman & Jennifer Thomas

Are your relationships always eroded with unforgiveness, pouting for days and emotional distancing because you don’t know how to directly approach forgiveness? Is your habit to tip-toe around the issue hoping that it will go away and things will smooth over, all by themselves? We all need to practice a life of forgiveness but why do we avoid it like the plague? And why when you say to others, “I’m sorry” that people don’t quickly trust you again?

In this class, you will learn a Godly perspective on forgiveness—the way to genuinely restore broken relationships. You will also learn the reasons and the “how to’s” of apologizing to your spouse, family members, your children, work associates, dating relationships, and yourself. This 9-week class for both men and women will cover the five languages of apologizing and why you should practice them.

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In My Father's House

Authored by Mary Kassian

Women Relating to God as Father

This class is a six week interactive study in a small group setting. Women need to get to know God as Father and relate to Him as a blessed daughter. Students are challenged to base their relationship with God on the truths of who He is rather than falsehoods about Him. God wants you to get to know him on an intimate level. Come and enjoy a day class with other women, like yourself, who don't know God as their relational Father.

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Making Love Last Forever

Authored by Gary Smalley

This pilot class is designed for interaction with other married couples in a small group setting. We meet to watch a 15 minute video then discuss the topic. A workbook included has light reading and should take about 10 to 15 minutes per day to do during the week.

The author, demonstrates how to help you stay in love with your mate. He claims:

"You can love your wife but also fall in love with life. What does loving life have to do with loving your spouse? For your love to last forever, you must be in love with life. Think in terms of the oxygen-mask instructions given by airplane attendants: If you don't make the choice to reach for oxygen yourself there's no point in your trying to help someone else. That's how it is with love. Learn to love life as God loves you, and then you have the resources to give and receive love."

Making Love Last Forever is a class to help you discover forever-love and develop skills to share that kind of love with your spouse.

The video and book cover subjects of:

We invite you and your spouse to participate in this class with us in growing toward Making Love Last Forever.

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Making Peace With Your Past

Authored by Tim Sledge

A class to help adult children of dysfunctional families reconcile their childhood issues.

Do you dare take a chance to trust God with your past life?

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Moving Beyond Your Past

Authored by Tim Sledge

Learn how to move beyond the hurts of the past into joyful and productive day-to-day living. This class will guide you toward emotional and spiritual wholeness. You will learn how to make major change in your life through a cycle of growth involving both attitudes and actions. You will study these topics:

You will have access to a moral inventory worksheet, a reconciliation plan and a self-care guide. Participants focus on the present.

You are encouraged to take these steps to change your present behaviors:

Learn to alert yourself when a painful childhood experience causes you to react in an unhealthy way to a given situation.
Begin to make new choices about responding to situations. Rather than simply reacting to childhood hurts, you can run to the arms of God through belief and faith
Learn some new ways of responding to people who hurt you.

Moving Beyond Your Past is a support-group course. You'll study dysfunctional family issues and other sensitive emotional areas that individuals might face. A carefully selected group facilitator guides discussion on the topics and helps group members process what they have learned during their study. Group members help one another by talking in a safe, loving environment.

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Telling Each Other the Truth

Authored by William Bachus

Biblical truth, when revealed, has the power to bring emotional health to people. It can heal hurts and build relationships between others. When you drop your hidden motive of harsh harassment, blaming and fault finding and replace it with respect and love, healing can take place.
A communications course developed to help you speak the truth in Christlikeness.

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The 7 Love Agreements

Authored by Douglas Weiss

The 7 Love Agreements will help you develop faithfulness, patience, forgiveness, service, respect, kindness and celebration. This class offers an opportunity to commit to godly agreements to help you develop your Christlike character for the benefit of your marriage or any individual relationships.

What is the key to strengthening your marriage and all the relationships in your life?
In this revealing book, Dr. Douglas Weiss explains seven love agreements that will not only change the way you look at yourself, but will also help you uncover new levels of intimacy in your relationships. You can experience the power of agreement in these areas:

Faithfulness—I will be faithful to my mate at all times in everything.

Patience—I will not try to change my mate, but I will modify my behaviors.

Forgiveness—I will quickly ask forgiveness. And I will forgive my mate’s offenses in my heart even before being asked.

Service—I will anticipate my mate’s spiritual, emotional, physical, and material needs and will do everything I can to meet them.

Respect—I will not act or speak in a way that demeans, ridicules, or embarrasses my mate.

Kindness—I will be kind to my mate, eliminating any trace of meanness from my behavior and speech.

Celebration—I will appreciate my mate’s gifts and attributes and celebrate them personally and publicly.

The student will learn the difference between constructive and destructive arguments, how to stop playing roles, the importance of giving, how to serve your mate, how to be patient, kind and respectful, also how to celebrate them…. and much more.

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Untangling Relationships

Authored by Pat Springle

A Christian Perspective on Codependency

This class helps you identify the painful effect of codependency. It is not for the dependent person addicted to drugs and alcohol. It is for those who are caught up in constantly pleasing people, fixing people's problems who have compulsions to control others and situations. Codependents are rejected by the same people they are trying to please. They choose to accomplish for others so they will receive worth, acceptance and love, but in return get crumbs.

If you have these tendencies you will be a good candidate for class:

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