Outreaches - Extended Education Workshops

Touching the Client's Heart - A Workshop for Client Evangelism - This Evangelism workshop has been adapted to the Pregnancy Help Center counselor. It is structured to enhance a grace-filled Gospel presentation-one that inspires a fearless participation with the Spirit in fulfilling the Great Commission. Included topic selections are: Legalism versus grace in sharing the gospel; Barriers to sharing one's faith; Entres to the gospel; The importance of personal testimony; Effectively using a salvation tract; What is the Gospel, really?

Caring For and Evangelizing the Multicultural Client - A Workshop for Client Evangelism - This workshop is designed to provide tools that help a counselor more effectively reach a client from a different culture. Our research and experience are based on working with clients from literally all over the world-45% of our clientele are not born in the U.S., while 35% say their religious upbringing is not orthodox Christian. This workshop will answer questions like: How do you help someone who does not understand this culture or possibly the language? How do you befriend and evangelize a Muslim? What do you say to someone whose culture expects abortion as a solution? How do you share the Gospel with a Buddhist or with someone who has never heard it before? What kinds of multi-cultural resources and referrals are available and effective?

The Overseas Pregnancy Help Center - What can a center do? - Do you have an opportunity or a heart to help your pro-life brothers and sisters in other parts of the world? There are huge needs and very few resources! This workshop will provide ideas and guidelines for how to effectively help or jump-start a center in another country. Topics include: Kinds and degrees of involvement; Communicating a mission vision to your board and to donors; Methods of accountability and communication with overseas centers; Respecting their culture-being a help, not a stumbling block; Building healthy overseas relationships. Since 1996, SLM has devoted time, finances, and material resources to assist pregnancy help centers in Romania and hope that what we have learned through the years can benefit your centers' overseas outreach.

Touching the Post-Abortive Woman's Heart - A Workshop for Post-Abortion Ministry - The Post-Abortion Leadership Training offers biblical knowledge and practical wisdom for use in churches, at home or at the Pregnancy Help Center. This workshop will equip you to help women who are hurting from the aftermath of abortion. Topic selections include: Qualifications for being a counselor; A foundational understanding of the Pre- and Post- abortive woman; The mother, the child and God's love; Helping the Post-abortive; Counseling Guidelines ; Leading a Bible study group. The manual, Helping Others in the Post-abortion Experience, A Biblical Approach, is based on Corrie Danieles' own experience of healing for her 5 abortions, as well as fifteen years of counseling with hundreds of other post-abortive women.

The next Post-Abortion Leadership Training will be Saturday, June 10, 2005. Contact Kay Gardner at 703-278-5433 or kay.slm@maranatha.net for more information.

KISSN (Keep It Simple, Say No) Train the Trainer - A Workshop for Abstinence Training - This workshop will equip others to effectively present KISSN presentation material to teens in middle and high schools, as well as churches. KISSN is an interactive, fast-paced Virginia state-approved abstinence program, designed to encourage teens to postpone sexual involvement until marriage. It challenges young people to consider the culture and their own views on topics like building healthy relationships, sexually transmitted diseases, secondary virginity and in Christian settings, the Lordship of Jesus in their life.