Speakers

1. The Nuts and Bolts of Godly Grandparenting Conference
2. Unleashing the Power of Prayer Retreat
3. Shepherding Your Grands According to the Twenty-Third Psalm Conference
4. Grandmas’ Gathering Retreat

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1. Courageous Grandparenting seminar
   This conference/seminar include five sessions exploring God’s call upon Christian grandparents to stay in the race, fight the good fight, and finish the race well so another generation may know the truth and walk in it. The five 45-minute sessions include: WAKE UP!-Building a Legacy That Matters; TAKE UP!-Two Pivotal Roles; BUILD UP!-Unleashing the Power of Spoken Blessing: GEAR UP!-Allies or Adversaries; STEP UP!-Take Back the Hill Country.
2. Not On Our Watch Seminar
   According to Judges 2, we are reminded that within two generations after the Israelites entered the Promised Land, “there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that He had done for Israel.” Will we allow the same failure to tell another generation the praiseworthy deeds of God to happen on our watch? This five-session seminar includes these topics: A Prescription for the Elderitis Virus; The Issachar Factor; Technology, Truth, and Other Tough Topics; Five Non-Negotiable Roles (2 sessions).
3. 3 Gen Men’s Retreat: (Fathers, Sons, Grandfathers)
   This two-night retreat is designed for grandfathers, adult sons (or sons-in-law), and grandsons. Besides lots of fun activities we will do together, we’ll explore what it means to be a man, a godly man, and a Christ-honoring family man. We’ll explore our family trees, unpack how our history shapes who we are, and examine God’s view of manhood versus how culture views it. Locations and dates will be announced.
4. Your Lasting Will seminar
   Unlike a last will and testament or the typical living will that describes when we want to be unplugged, this seminar explores a different kind of living will. A “living, living will” focuses on what it means to live “plugged in” to God’s purposes now. We’ll explore how to identify and examine ways to distribute both material and non-material assets while you are still living, rather than waiting till you die. This three-hour seminar for adults of any age, including grandparents, will introduce you to an unusual family approach to the stewardship of assets God has given you for His purposes.

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1. FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
   Speakers: Nate & Kim Young and Don & Deborah Haddix
   Don & Deborah Haddix, along with Nate & Kim Young, want to help seniors and their adult children see aging God’s perspective, not the way the world views aging. Foundational biblical and practical truths will be examined in both combined and season specific sessions. The Finishing Well Conference will help senior adults grow to age in grace and help their adult children grow to love in grace. This retreat can be adapted to fit your time frame.
2. FINISHING WELL
   The Bible is clear that we are to disciple our adult children and our grandchildren. In this six-session conference, Don and Deborah Haddix, explore five effective and powerful methods that answer the “how” of discipling the next generations. The six 45-minute sessions include:
   • From Generation to Generation (A Psalm 145 framework)
   • Effectual Fervent Prayer
   • Modeling
   • Observing Traditions
   • Sharing Our God-stories
   • The Power of Blessing.

   Steeped in Scripture, seasoned with more than forty years’ worth of personal anecdotes, and sprinkled with fun and laughter, this conference helps encourage, equip, and challenge participants to live in obedience to God’s generational mandate. This retreat can be modeled to fit your time frame.

For more information, contact Deborah Haddix (deborah@deborahhaddix.com).

1. Biblical Grandparenting (Seminar or Conference)
   The Biblical Grandparenting Seminar or Conference is a partnership with a local church or organization to equip grandparents in their God-designed role to be intentional, godly grandparents so that future generations may grow up with a biblical foundation that will enable them to follow Christ wholeheartedly in today’s world.
2. Gospel Shaped Family Conference
   The Gospel Shaped Family conference is designed to equip families to raise children and grandchildren with a deep, lasting, culture-transforming faith. God designed families to shape the next generation with the gospel, give them a biblical view of life, and be the primary means to help children and grandchildren mature in Christ.
3. Various Grandparenting topics that can fit in your venue
   • How To Help a Child or Grandchild Develop a Biblical Worldview
     Learn what worldview is, why it matters and how to help your child or grandchild develop a biblical worldview by teaching four foundational biblical truths. This seminar will help you gain confidence and equip you to have intentional conversations so that your children develop deep, lasting, and culture transforming faith. This seminar is based on Josh’s book Biblical Worldview.
   • 4 Ways to Help Children Understand and Defend Their Faith
     This seminar will equip you to help children recognize cultural lies, provide practical ways that you can integrate apologetics into your ministry, and introduce you to key tools to aid your children’s ministry.
   • The Authority and Sufficiency of Scripture
     Many Christians look to science, experience, or other sources for guidance and unintentionally replace the authority of God’s Word for something else. In this seminar you will learn how to help your child strengthen their belief in God’s Word through three questions, reasons the Bible is true and trustworthy, and applications to all of life.

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1. Intentional Grandparenting conferences
   A combination of speakers and workshops addressing key topics related to intentional, biblical grandparenting in such a time as this. This is a two day conference and includes lots of resources exhibitors with tools to help you in your grandparenting journey.
2. Gospel Shaped Family conferences
   The Gospel Shaped Family conference is designed to equip families to raise children and grandchildren with a deep, lasting, culture-transforming faith. God designed families to shape the next generation with the gospel, give them a biblical view of life, and be the primary means to help children and grandchildren mature in Christ.
3. Biblical Sexuality (seminar)
4. Marriage/Family Retreats

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1. Hooray for Grandparents seminar or as a keynote
   Hey Papa, Grammy, Gramps, and Nana! Get 22 fresh strategies you can use today for giving love, receiving love, dispelling stereotypes, leaving a legacy, and being a rock star to your entire family. A challenging, encouraging, and heartfelt weekend retreat or single presentation for any grandparents’ or senior’s group. Also, a valuable message for any congregation or general audience to promote positive family dynamics.
   But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children. (Psalm 103:17)
   A Weekend Retreat format includes the individual topics listed in #2 below.
2. Workshops/Single Talks:
   • Praying For and With Your Grandchildren
   • Empowering the Sandwich Generation
   • What If God Wrote Your Bucket List?
   • The Four Factors for De-escalating Conflict
   • 17 Ways to Make the World a Better Place
3. The Grandfather Effect Retreat (Four sessions)
   We’ll unpack four important practices for effective grandfathering: Bond. Teach. Enjoy. Inspire. The four sessions include:
   • Be the Gramps!
   • Grandfathers in the Bible
   • Papa’s Magic
   • Your Legacy of Faith

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Seminar/Conference Event

Courageous Grandparenting Seminar

This conference/seminar includes five 45-minute sessions exploring God’s call upon Christian grandparents to stay in the race, fight the good fight, and finish the race well so another generation may know the truth and walk in it. Contact Olin and Bev at bphillips@christiangrandparenting.com for more information.

Optional Workshop for Grandfathers: MAN UP! True Heroes Wanted
Optional Workshop for Grandmothers: CHEER UP! Let’s Be Glad All Our Days

Workshops/Single Presentations:

For information on any of these topics contact:
bphillips@christiangrandparenting.com

1. Why Grandparenting Ministry Matters in the Local Church
   A workshop for pastors, church leaders and volunteers to explore the Scriptural basis, current statistics, and potential for a church’s grandparenting ministry. We share suggestions for next steps in developing a legacy grandparent ministry in the local church.
2. Grandparents: Are You on Fire or Burning Out?
   Are you on fire to become a successful Christian grandparent? What exactly is that anyway? Or are you tired and facing burn-out in pursuit of this goal? Burn-out is real, even for God-centered, faithful grandparents. Avoid the comparison trap and learn to have a more balanced life as we examine our hearts and schedules.
3. Living and Leaving a Legacy of Faith
   A workshop for all grandparents contrasting the Biblical role of grandparents with the world’s views. Practical suggestions are offered for how to be intentional about your legacy. Don’t be molded by the world – be shaped on the “Potter’s Wheel!”
4. 7 Essentials of a Grandparents’ Marriage Model
   We know our marriage can have a powerful effect on our children and grandchildren. We review key areas to keep in mind in seeking to model a healthy, God-honoring marriage in the 2^nd half of life.
5. Christmas Tips for Wise Grandparents
   Explaining the difference between a lavish gift-giver and a gracious gift-giver requires a heart motivation check. We will explore general guidelines and practical ideas to allow Christmas to be a special celebration focused on our Savior’s birth.

Workshop Topics Offered by Bev:

1. Prayer: An Invitation, A Conversation, A Response
   God invites us to have personal communion with Him—a two-way conversation where our responses can be life-changing. The
   Lord’s Prayer is a model of both the inward and outward focus that is crucial to praying. Our prayers do make a
   difference!
2. Living Between Once-Upon-A-Time & Happily-Ever-After: God’s Sovereignty in Difficult Times
   When we begin a relationship with Jesus, it feels like the sweet beginning of a wonderful story that will continue until the happily-ever-after of heaven. But then come big bumps and deep valleys.  Can we see God’s presence actively woven throughout each event and season? There is practical help and encouragement during the “in-between” times.
3. Prayer as a Spiritual Habit
   What is prayer? Why pray? Just as breathing in air is natural and necessary to a newborn child, coming to God through prayer is a natural response to a relationship with Him even with our wandering minds and lack of focus. Ideas for how to get started or to refresh your prayer life are included.
4. Spiritual Friends, Mentors, Spiritual Mothers: Passing on a Legacy of Biblical Womanhood to Another Generation
   Spiritual partnerships are a life-giving way for women to nurture, encourage, and love one another in all generations. If you love Jesus and see Him at work in your life, you are called to invest in other women. But it can feel difficult, elusive, or ineffective? The Bible provides numerous examples and personal stories to help and encourage you as a younger or older women to go further and deeper together with your faithful Creator.
5. Midlife and Beyond: Northing to be Afraid Of!
   Common midlife experiences with its losses and challenges can bring about a time of questioning. What have I accomplished? What’s ahead for me? Where is God in all this and what is my purpose now? Scripture guides us as we learn to “laugh at the future”, look forward to the prize, and focus on the joy God puts before us.

The Millers are experienced speakers at conferences, workshops, seminars and events at churches and other venues (including GrandCamp) for audiences consisting of grandparents, parents, or both. Depending on an event’s setting and duration, their presentations can include one or more of the following example topics.

You can contact the Millers at pmiller@christiangrandparenting.com.

1. The God-Given and God-Driven Family Trinity – This concept describes the relationships, roles, and responsibilities in three-generation families. A new Family Trinity begins when a couple becomes parents and is complete when their children have children. The family enjoys great benefits when God is at its center and everyone seeks to follow His will. A family that understands the Trinity can maximize its love for and ministry to others while minimizing conflict and other issues.
2. Teaching Responsibilities in the Family Trinity – The Family Trinity concept shows that parents should instruct their children what to do and how to do it and may apply discipline to ensure they learn. As their offspring mature toward and into adulthood, wise parents change to coaching them by asking questions, making suggestions, and standing aside without discipline. Wise grandparents teach their grandchildren by modeling God-honoring wisdom and behavior while respecting the parents’ instructional goals.
3. There’s More to Grandparenting than the Grandchildren – Some grandparents understandably but mistakenly focus primarily on the grandchildren. Instead, they best help the family by having a mature adult-to-adult relationship with the parents that supports their efforts without undermining or contradiction. As a simple example, thoughtful grandparents show respect for the parents when they initiate their phone calls by asking them how they are doing before inquiring about the grandchildren.
4. The Maturity Matrix – This concept identifies four possible categories of relationships between grandparents and parents. The best situations are created when grandparents fully release the parents to be independent adults and the parents fully embrace their independence. Difficulties arise when grandparents do not release their adult children and/or when adult children choose to remain dependent. Families who understand this matrix are more likely to enjoy positive relationships while avoiding conflicts.
5. The Perils of Spoiling, Gift-Giving and Baby-Sitting – Some grandparents mistakenly believe it’s suitable for them to inundate their grandchildren with gifts even though doing so can harm the parents’ relationships with the grandchildren. Rather, it’s far better when the grandparents are thoughtfully generous instead of selfishly lavish. Other conflicts can be avoided when grandparents don’t break the parents’ rules when they’re baby-sitting and when parents don’t exhaust the grandparents’ goodwill and energy by requesting their help too frequently.
6. Helping Parents and Grandparents become “GrandPartners” – Parents and grandparents who have God-driven adult-to-adult relationships can cooperate in helping the grandchildren become Christ-following adults. The two generations will benefit from clear communications about the parents’ goals for their children, their teaching strategies, their other challenges, and their expectations about how the grandparents can help. Likewise, parents should respect the grandparents’ needs to conserve time and energy for non-family activities.
7. How to Establish, Maintain and Honor Boundaries Between Generations – Although the word “boundaries” may suggest that conflict exists, establishing mutually agreed-upon expectations always promotes harmonious and productive relationships. Our guidance can help both generations create and operate within loving limits and thus avoid imposition, misunderstanding and other uncomfortable outcomes. For example, wise grandparents avoid making the parents look ungenerous by asking for and honoring their requests for the gifts they want their children to receive.
8. Planting the Seeds of a GrandPartnership Before the Grandchildren Are Born, and After – Adult children and their parents are wise when they build mutually beneficial relationships between them before grandchildren arrive. Doing so leads to smoother transitions into helpful grandparent-parent relationships. Of course, their relationships must continue growing and deepening, eventually preparing both of them for the “role-reversal” stage when grandparents need their adult children to assist them in many different ways
9. Grandparenting in difficult situations – All families face the possibility of encountering one or more of the “Destructive ‘D’ Factors,” such as disability, disease, deployment, death, and divorce.
10. Grandparenting in special situations – Many grandparents are challenged (and rewarded with great blessings) by adapting to unfamiliar situations, such as when their adult children marry someone from a different background, adopt a child, or have a child with special needs. These events give grandparents wonderful opportunities to show extra grace and understanding, as well as love, patience, flexibility and generosity. We know from personal experience that the end results are amazing!