Weekend to Remember!
April 27 - 29 2012
Anchorage, Alaska WHAT CAN I EXPECT? Weekend to Remember is not a large counseling session, and you will not be asked to participate in small groups. Rather, you will receive marriage-changing principles that you can take home and apply to your daily lives that will strengthen your marriage. |
Weekend to Remember® marriage getaway
Two-and-a-half day weekend getaway for couples
Focus: Life has a way of overwhelming a marriage. Jobs, kids, activities, errands. Before you know it, checking your e-mail is more important than carving out a date night. FamilyLife’s Weekend to Remember® marriage getaway is a chance to make a change. It’s a time to rediscover each other and find more intimacy in your life together.
Connect: When you arrive for the weekend, we’ll help you step away from daily life. Cell phones are turned off. To-do lists are forgotten. You'll find it's a warm, engaging environment that’s all about making progress in your marriage, not placing blame.
Discover: What you and your spouse will hear during the Weekend to Remember® is not just one couple’s opinion on marriage. Instead, it is the result of more than three decades of biblical research by a team of men and women who distilled what it takes to have a successful marriage and family.
The Weekend to Remember getaway is not a large counseling session, and you will not be asked to participate in small groups. Rather, you will receive marriage-changing principles that you can take home and apply to your daily lives that will strengthen your marriage. During the weekend, you will learn how to:
- Receive your spouse as a gift.
- Clarify your role as a husband or wife.
- Resolve conflict in the relationship.
- Maintain a vital sexual connection.
- Express forgiveness to one another.
- Increase your commitment, creating an even deeper level of intimacy.
Our speakers will show you exactly how to pursue a marriage that really works through stories of their own breakthroughs and blunders. Every couple drives away with a roadmap to a great marriage. We want you to leave the weekend with encouragement, hope, and practical tools to build and grow your relationship. That’s why we call this a Weekend to Remember.
Weekend Schedule
Times and session descriptions
The format of the weekend combines general sessions (with messages delivered by the three-person speaker team) with designated times set aside for projects to complete as a couple. Though we do not offer a formal question-and-answer time with the speakers, they will occasionally make themselves available before and after sessions to answer questions on an individual basis. We do not offer on-site counseling services.
Below is a a detailed schedule for the Weekend to Remember®.
FRIDAY
05:00 p.m. Sign in to receive getaway manuals and name tags
07:00 - 07:30 p.m Welcome to your Weekend to Remember®
07:30 - 08:30 p.m Why Marriages Fail: Identify and understand the five threats to marriage
08:30 - 08:45 p.m. Break (on your own)
08:45 - 09:30 p.m. Can We Talk? Discuss factors that make communication difficult.
09:30 - 09:50 p.m. Application project for you and your spouse.
SATURDAY
08:00 - 08:30 a.m. Resource center and ballroom open.
08:30 - 09:20 a.m. Unlocking the Mystery of Marriage: Realize God's plan for marriage.
09:20 - 09:35 a.m. Break (on your own)
09:35 - 10:25 a.m. From How to Wow: Achieve God's plan for marriage by leaving, cleaving, and becoming one flesh.
10:25 - 11:40 a.m. Application project for you and your spouse
10:25 - 11:40 a.m. So You Wanna Get Married (Optional premarried session)
11:40 - 12:30 p.m. What Every Marriage Needs: Marriage is dependent upon your own personal relationship with God.
12:30 - 02:00 p.m. Lunch break (on your own)
02:00 - 03:05 p.m. We Fight Too: Understand how to handle the inevitable conflicts of marriage.
03:05 - 03:20 p.m. Helping Others
03:20 - 03:30 p.m. Break (on your own)
03:30 - 04:30 p.m. Marriage After Dark: Uncover intimacy from God's perspective.
04:30 - 04:55 p.m. Help for Today (Optional breakout session)
04:30 - 05:30 p.m. Two Become One (Optional premarried session)
Evening Date Night**
**Make Date Night the highlight of your weekend by spending meaningful time together and reclaiming the love and intimacy that is often obscured through the activities of daily living. Rekindle the fire over a candlelight dinner—reserve a romantic table for two. Surprise your spouse with a special gift that you have tucked away in your suitcase. Or simply, hang the "do not disturb" sign outside your door. And, if attending with friends, make sure to reserve this evening just to spend this time together as a couple.
SUNDAY
09:00 - 10:30 a.m. Woman to Woman / Man to Man: God has given husbands and wives different roles and responsibilities.
10:30 - 11:05 a.m. Hope for Tomorrow (Optional breakout session)
10:30 - 11:15 a.m. Application project.
11:15 - 12:00 p.m. How Marriages Thrive: Learn the three essential elements to a healthy marriage.
12:00 - 12:30 p.m. Leaving a Legacy: Detect and implement your family's legacy.
12:30 p.m. Getaway ends
Details....
Costs:
Registration: $159 USD per couple Transportation to Anchorage: $100 - $125 per couple (depending how many go). Hotel in Anchorage: $65 - $110 / night per couple (depending where we stay). Total: All costs, for three nights at an off-site hotel would be approx. $454 USD. Note: last time I went, we stayed off site and it was no problem at all. Dates: We could leave Whitehorse EARLY on Friday April 27 (5:00 am) and get to Anchorage in time for the evening registration and session OR we could leave a day earlier and have Friday for shopping in Anchorage. AND We could leave Anchorage either immediately after the session ends on Sunday (getting back to Whitehorse very late Sunday night) OR we could stay an extra night in Anchorage and leave Anchorage Monday morning, arriving in Whitehorse Monday night. |
Are you ready to register?
We have a "group" rate already established with FamilyLife.
First, go to their Registration Page. The first listing will be for the Weekend to Remember in Anchorage, Alaska. Click "register for getaway" under 04/27/2012 thru 04/29/2012. You will be taken to their registration page.
Once you start registering, the first step will confirm the event information. You should see "Anchorage Marriott Downtown". Fill in your information. Important: for Group Name, enter WhitehorseNazarene and when you come to payments, instead of charging $159 per person, it will charge $79.50 per person.
When you get to Step 2, you will need to enter your contact information. You'll need to select "Canada" as your country and "Not in USA" for your state. However, down near the bottom it will ask you your "Church State". Here they don't give you the option of "Not in USA" so I would just put "AK" (for Alaska). For Church City, you can put "Whitehorse". I'm sure they will figure it out.
Step 3 will be your payment details. It should be $159 for a couple (if you included the group name WhitehorseNazarene).
The registration fee is only for the conference. We will register at a hotel together as a group (unless you want to take care of that on your own as well, you can certainly do that). The conference hotel is $105/night - but we can probably get something significantly lower in price. We'll deal with the accommodations closer to April.
That should do it for now.
First, go to their Registration Page. The first listing will be for the Weekend to Remember in Anchorage, Alaska. Click "register for getaway" under 04/27/2012 thru 04/29/2012. You will be taken to their registration page.
Once you start registering, the first step will confirm the event information. You should see "Anchorage Marriott Downtown". Fill in your information. Important: for Group Name, enter WhitehorseNazarene and when you come to payments, instead of charging $159 per person, it will charge $79.50 per person.
When you get to Step 2, you will need to enter your contact information. You'll need to select "Canada" as your country and "Not in USA" for your state. However, down near the bottom it will ask you your "Church State". Here they don't give you the option of "Not in USA" so I would just put "AK" (for Alaska). For Church City, you can put "Whitehorse". I'm sure they will figure it out.
Step 3 will be your payment details. It should be $159 for a couple (if you included the group name WhitehorseNazarene).
The registration fee is only for the conference. We will register at a hotel together as a group (unless you want to take care of that on your own as well, you can certainly do that). The conference hotel is $105/night - but we can probably get something significantly lower in price. We'll deal with the accommodations closer to April.
That should do it for now.
