Park Cities Presbyterian Church (PCA)

Join Dan Allender and Steve Call as they invite couples to consider how their marriage is designed to reveal the character of God, to help them courageously name and explore the obstacles to a good marriage, and to call forth a deeper passion and joy in living out God’s design for their relationship. This three-day workshop looks honestly and deeply at relational struggles through the combination of teaching, small group sessions, and individual couples' sessions with highly skilled facilitators. Register now as there are only a limited number of spaces available! Scholarship funds are available.

A True Love Story

Not only have Lee and Sonia Jagers been a part of PCPC for a long time, but they have been around each other for much longer. In fact, they have been married for _ years. It might be easy to assume that with such a longstanding and successful marriage, that they would have little interest in investing their time and money in going to an intensive marriage enrichment workshop in Seattle last year. However, that is exactly what they did.

Marriage can fulfill our hearts with the sweet taste of intimacy or it can wrench our hearts with the anguish of raw pain. Most of us rock along somewhere in the middle. We grow accustomed to the areas of “stuckness” at some level of familiar comfort. We settle for levels of limited intimacy. Sonia and I attended Dan Allender’s Intimate Mystery Workshop last year in Seattle. It helped Sonia and I break through some of the encrusted areas of our marriage so we could embrace each other with greater respect, tenderness and understanding.

His lectures provided a model for us to see a relationship in progress. His honesty and authenticity sometimes shocked us out of our complacency and suggested that maybe we could focus on our own lives with as much non-defensive reality. Our small group experience helped us see our current struggles in light of the themes of our past lives. We could then practice expressing empathy for one another rather than contempt. We saw how some pain is constructive, how it’s part of the reconstruction process, while other pain is destructive and to be avoided.

This workshop makes scriptural principles come alive and uses awareness and insight as stepping-stones into the mysterious experience of intimacy in marriage. For us, it was eye opening and useful. Perhaps you will find it so as well.

-- Lee Jagers

A Pastoral Encouragement

If you came to the Dan Allender Intimate Mystery conference in September of 2010 at PCPC, then consider this an opportunity to go further and deeper into the material that you heard there. If not, I encourage you to pray and discover if the Lord may be calling you and your spouse to experience his material for the first time at the workshop hosted by PCPC on March 22-24, 2012.

-- Jeff White

More information

For an overview of this conference, please view this short video summary. 

For more information, contact Betty Montague, 214-224-2683.