Conferences ~ Retreats ~ Workshops
If you are interested in us speaking in your area, please contact us and we will prayerfully consider it. Make certain to designate which conference, retreat, or workshops you are interested in so we can send you the appropriate information.
| "Managing Your Own Household Well" Men's Retreat In this conference, Matthew covers a lot of ground with men in a relatively short amount of time in the two areas of marriage and parenting, and it's all about God's purpose and design for our families. In the first half, he focuses on a man's role as husband and aspiring to love our wife as Jesus loves His church and unselfishly gave Himself up for her. In the process, he takes a penetrating, lively, and sometimes painfully honest look at many of the issues implicit in leading, communicating, staying heart connected all the time, and maintaining intimacy. The second half is devoted to a man's role as father and having vision for the entire season of life called "parenting." Subjects covered included aiming your children from infancy "in the way they should go," our responsibility in training and disciplining our children, keeping our children's hearts with ours, sheltering our families from evil influences, parenting together in harmony with your wife, the differing aspects of raising sons and daughters, launching our children into adulthood, and much more. What makes this men's conference especially unique is because these truths are shared with an ongoing, direct linkage between men being proven in the "managing of their own households well" and being qualified for leadership in the church (1 Tim. 3:4, 12). This conference will speak to men in all stages of life, from single to newly married to men well down the road who need encouragement and refreshing. |
"Seeing and Entering the Kingdom" Conference Jesus and the apostles constantly taught, preached, and demonstrated the kingdom of God. Why is it then that we hear and really know so little of this kingdom in our day and time when it is what Jesus explicitly told us to "seek first"? In this conference, Matthew will take an in-depth look at the kingdom of God and how we are to see, enter, and express His kingdom and His reign in our daily lives and function together as His body. This is a revolutionary call for Christians to awaken to Jesus and His domain, "put on and wear" who we are in Him, and abide more consistently in/with Him, and is unlike anything you will ever hear in Sunday sermons. Come ready to not only go through a lot of scriptures, but to more fully discover the spiritual reality behind them of this unseen realm where Jesus reigns at the center and leads, speaks to, and shepherds His people. |
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"Joyful Journey Together" Family Retreat
Godly family life requires a lot
of hard work, sacrifice, and laying down of life, and yet God
intended it be a journey that is full of joy and blessing. In
this conference, Matthew and Maranatha share on a whole spectrum
of subjects that they have found to be the proven ingredients
of a rich, heart-connected home life together. The content covers
the two areas of marriage and parenting, and it's all about God's
purpose and design for our families.
In
the first section on marriage, Matthew shares with the men about
aspiring to love their wife as Jesus loves His church in/through
the many aspects of leading, communicating, managing, staying
heart-connected all the time, and maintaining intimacy. At the
same time, Maranatha shares with the women about God's perfect
design in relating, submitting, and giving to their husbands.
All along the way, we will look at many motives and issues of
our hearts in how we relate in marriage, as well as give many
practical helps in how to deliver love to one another.
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second section of the conference is devoted to parenting. Throughout
all the content that is covered, emphasis is made on the need
to shield and train our children in a way that keeps their hearts
with ours and accurately represents the Lord to them so that they
will be naturally equipped to one day be true followers of Jesus.
We give a lot of practical examples and helps from our own life.
Subjects include love constantly flowing in the home, teaching
contentment, dealing with motives of the heart, spotting hidden
rebellion, differences in training sons and daughters, having
vision for "releasing your arrows" into adulthood, and
much, much more. By the end of the weekend we hope to have passed on some real tools in cultivating rich family life and building and maintaining a strong, unified, Christ-like home. This conference is designed for the entire family to come and share together, and encouragement can be found for everyone in every season of life. |
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We
now offer a retreat exclusively for married couples. The format
and feel is very different from our other conferences as this
is a time to be encouraged, strengthened, and challenged in your
marriage. We will have sessions for husbands and wives, together,
looking at vital issues such as communication, heart intimacy,
cultivating your friendship, matters of trust, staying in love
everyday, building each other up in your walk with the Lord Jesus,
and much more. There will also be times of Matthew speaking
exclusively with husbands while Maranatha shares with just the
wives, as we focus on many important issues within marriage. The
retreat is designed to deepen your connectedness and bring it
into ongoing daily life, giving hope and direction for moving
forward together as one. Please contact us for the complete details
on how to host a Marriage Retreat.
Matthew is also available to share in your local saints' gathering on any of the subjects covered in his articles and teaching series, from making a place for the Lord in your midst and meeting under His headship to matters of marriage and family to separation from the world and living in the last days. Please contact him with your request and it will be prayerfully considered. |
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Family Togetherness - Would
you like to have a home with love flowing
between everyone and a rich heart-connectedness all of the time?
In this session we will give extremely practical help for eliminating
sibling rivalry, strengthening family unity, working together with
purpose, and learning how to deliver love to one another. This can
be "normal life"! ~Matthew & Maranatha Chapman
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Whole-Hearted Work - Learn how to motivate your children to work hard, make their work more fun and rewarding, and produce dependable, diligent, whole-hearted young men and women of God in the process. ~Matthew & Maranatha Chapman
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Our Betrothal Story - Twenty years ago, Maranatha and I got betrothed, had a joyous and worship-filled wedding feast, and started our life together centered on the Lord Jesus and His eternal purpose. This took place long before we had ever even heard of courtship or betrothal as it is talked about today. For us, it is simply what we called the way we chose to get married in our endeavor to be a reflection of Jesus and His bride. Many people are shocked or even think we are lying when we tell them that, in all these years since, we have never "had fights," called each other names, or ended a single day at odds with one another. This workshop is simply our story, our reflection, and our testimony of how important it is to begin with a good foundation. (NOTE: This is not a teaching about betrothal or the how-to's of moving from singleness to marriage.) ~Matthew Chapman
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Godly and Ungodly Goals -
What does the Lord say about what we should be giving our children?
It is so important that we separate what God's standards are
and what are the world's. This workshop
is especially good for the perfectionistic or frazzled mama.
~Maranatha Chapman
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Making Melody to The Lord - Our family has found great joy in pleasing our Lord by singing praises to Him and worshiping from a heart of full surrender. We will share with you some of the songs we (including our children) have written and the circumstances and heart behind what brought them forth. We will also give some simple tools in writing your own "new song" to the Lord. This is definitely a time that everyone in the family will enjoy. ~The Chapman Family
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Stopping Rebellion Before It Starts - This is an important talk for parents with young children who need help in safely "aiming their arrows." ~Matthew Chapman
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Parenting Together in Harmony - We can manage to give our children love, devotion, a great education, and solid beliefs, but if Daddy and Mama are not in harmony then there is going to be serious trouble. Learn how to do your part, support your mate, and to stay unified in your endeavors. ~Matthew Chapman
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Learning and Teaching Contentment -
Our Lord requires us to be
completely content in
every circumstance of life. If He is to reign in our homes, it is
imperative that we learn contentment and teach it to our
children. This workshop is extremely practical with lots of heart
and "how-to's." ~Maranatha Chapman
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Lies That Homeschooling Mamas Believe - This is a very candid look at pitfalls mothers often fall into within home education, discipleship, and child training. ~Maranatha Chapman
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Imparting A Love For Learning - The title says it all. This workshop is a lot fun and packed full with information, demonstrations, and helps. ~Maranatha Chapman
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Quality or Quantity, Which One Counts? -
This is a crucial message for every busy mom who is
trying to figure out how much and to what degree they need to give
of themselves to their children. ~Maranatha
Chapman
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Keeping It All Going While Maintaining Peace - Are you good at doing one thing really well but most everything else suffers while you do it? Or, are you able to accomplish everything on your list but you are a "mean ol' mama" in the process? In this workshop we look at scheduling, managing, and maintaining order and peace while abiding in the Lord's Life. ~Maranatha Chapman
~Benjamin Chapman (the oldest of the Chapman children)
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