Equipping Classes

Winter 2012

Adult Equipping Classes

Marriage 101 Facilitators: Bill & Amanda Pitts
Time: Sundays, 10:30 am Location: ED101 

Marriage 101: Back to the Basics goes straight to the heart of the crucial issues that face marriages today. Dr. Gary & Barb Rosberg, Dave Ramsey, and Dr. H. Norman Wright address conflict resolution, money, sexual intimacy and much more. This class is designed for both engaged and married couples. These respected Christian counselors combine to make Marriage 101: Back to the Basics the best in premarital coaching or marriage enrichment. This class begins on January 15, 2012.

DivorceCare Facilitator: Jodi Nation
Time: 10:30 am Location: FFC Conference Room 

DivorceCare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. Don’t go through separation or divorce alone. DivorceCare seminars and support groups are led by people who understand what you are going through and want to help. You’ll gain access to valuable DivorceCare resources to help you deal with the pain of the past and look forward to rebuilding your life. This class will begin on January 15, 2012.

Financial Peace University Facilitator: Justin Beede
Time: Sundays, 8:30 am Location:  Conference Room

FPU is the most important step to changing your financial future. It is your Total Money Makeover Program. It takes the knowledge from God and turns it into real action in our lives through a step-by-step process taught by best-selling author and financial counselor Dave Ramsey. FPU is a 13-week life-changing program that empowers and teaches you how to make the right money decisions to achieve your financial goals and God’s plan for your life. The course includes practical lessons on eliminating debt, building wealth, giving like never before, and much, much more! This class will begin on January 15, 2012.

Growing Kids God’s Way Facilitators: Jason & Heather Patterson
Time: 5:00 pm Location: 1326 NW Shoreline Ct., Ankeny  

GROWING KIDS GOD’S WAY (Along the Virtuous Way) is a comprehensive values-based parenting curriculum. In the title the authors, Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo, place their emphasis on God’s Way meaning the way of the Lord. We serve an ethical God. Moral rightness flows from His being. His moral law is a reflection of His holy character (Psalm 19:7). More than that, He has shown man what is good and what is required of him (Micah 6:8). Growing Kids God’s Way can help any parent reach the heart of children with virtues and values that flow from the character of God and do it without stressing the child or the parents. This class will begin on January 8, 2012.

Precept Bible Study Facilitator: Tony Didlo
Time: Thursdays, 6:30 pm Location: FFC Conference Room

Learning to study the Bible through an inductive study process will forever change how you approach Bible study. In this introductory course, you will learn the Inductive Bible Study process and then apply it to the New Testament epistle to Titus. This class begins on January 19, 2012.

Perspectives Facilitator: Faith Swanson
Time: Tuesdays, 6:15 pm Location: Youth Room

Perspectives helps believers from all walks of life see how they can get threaded into God’s story of redeeming people from every tribe, tongue, and nation to Himself. From Genesis to the prophets, Jesus Christ to the early church, and Constantine to today, you will see how God has been moving, how the global Church has responded, and what the greatest needs in world evangelization remain today. It isn’t a class about missions, but a course on how every believer can be intimately woven into the story of God using His people to be a blessing to all the peoples of the earth. Perspectives will begin on January 17, 2012. Cost: $250. (Scholarships available.)

Healthy for Life University Facilitators: Tom Miller & Jean  Bienfang
Time: Thursdays, 7:00 pm Location: FFC Youth Room

Healthy for Life University utilizes the latest emerging science in health and healing and diverse experience in the medical field to bring you the most complete, holistic education around today in an easy-to-understand format. With this knowledge, you will build the foundation for life-long health, and be in control of your health from this point forward. Class will begin on January 26, 2012. Cost: $99. (Scholarships available.)

Christian Worldview Facilitator: R.C. Sproul
Time: 24/7 Location: Online

How do you see the world? Everyone has a worldview, a framework that helps them to interpret reality and answer life’s ultimate questions. Many people, however, are unaware of the view they embrace. In this series, R.C. Sproul examines some of today’s most popular worldviews and demonstrates that only the Christian worldview truly answers life’s most important questions. This class will begin on January 16, 2012.

Prophecy 101 Facilitator: Chuck Missler
Time: 24/7 Location: Online

The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (Rev. 19:10). The Bible contains 8,362 predictive verses about 737 different matters and yet prophecy is one of the most neglected subjects in the Church today. Understanding prophecy is an essential and fundamental issue for every serious Christian. This four-hour series, with over 100 tables, illustrations, and graphs, has been designed to give you a strategeic overview of prophecy–past, present, and future. This class will begin on January 16, 2012.