Do You Have a Curriculum?
I Want To Run A Recovery Program.
Is God calling you to minister to the divorced and/or widowed in your neighborhood?
Jump-start your ministry. Learn from the Crystal Cathedral’s successful practices!
The Divorce and Grief Recovery Curriculum is designed to change lives. Our desire is to restore hope to thosewho feel victimized and without a future because of their life circumstances: death, divorce, illness, or heartache. Our desire is to see them productive members of society with a restored faith that will carry them through their every circumstance in life.
Leader’s Guide
A relevant, sequential curriculum in two 7-week segments.
Easy-to-implement, time-tested lesson plans.
Power point presentations for each lesson that will enable you to provide a personalized program.
Guidelines for building a program that changes lives.
Workbooks and a textbook for each participant.
Handouts to be personalized and/or duplicated.
Sample letters, press releases, and publicity tools.
Phase I: Letting Go of the Past:
A complete seven-week course, Phase I is written
in seed-thought style. A person in a state of shock
or depression caused by the loss of a love cannot
follow the theme of a book that must be read from
cover to cover. Topics:
1. Picking Up the Pieces
2. Grief, Loss, and Other Torture
3. From Where I Was to Where I Will Be
4. To Thine Own Self Be True
5. Forgive Him/Her? Surely You Jest!
6. Intimacy...As A Single...Help!
7. Free to be Me!
Each participant receives a notebook plus a copy
of Surviving Separation and Divorce by Sharon
Marshall.
About the Authors:
Sharon Marshall Lockett. Sharon has directed the Divorce and Grief Recovery Program at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, for 15 years. A professional staff developer, Sharon brings a wealth of knowledge to the topic of changing lives and developing character. These resources provide the tools and the
research behind them to assist you as you emulate Jesus, bringing healing to the victims of grief, death, and divorce.
Sharon is author or numerous publications, both personally and professionally. She is a graduate of Point Loma Nazarene University and has earned an MS in educational administration from California State University. A professional educator and staff developer, she earns her living as founder and director of the nationally validated
SCORE program for high-risk youth. She fulfills her calling to bring hope to God’s broken children through Divorce and Grief Recovery.
Dick Innes. Dick is the Founder and Director of ACTS International and ACTS Communications. He is also editor of the Narramore Christian Foundation’s magazine, Psychology for Living. Dick is a graduate of Greenville College, Moody Bible Institute, and Wheaton College. Dick has authored three books: I Hate Witnessing, How to Mend a Broken Heart, and You Can’t Fly With a Broken Wing. He has written more than 250 Encounter brochure articles—40 million of which have been distributed around the world. He is the author of Daily Encounter, the week-day e-mail devotional of ACTS International, and editor of Weekend Encounter. Visit his web site at www.actsweb.org.
Phase II: Embracing the Future:
A complete seven-week course, Phase II affirms
that there is hope for healing after the loss of a love.
Packed with solid guidance, it serves as a personal first
aid manual for building a happy, fulfilled future.
Topics:
1. Embracing the Truth That Will Set Us Free
2. Harnessing Those Out-of-Control Emotions
3. Help! I’ve Forgotten Who I Am!
4. Seems I’ve Been Here Before
5. Letting Go of the Past
6. Learning to Trust Again
7. Single, Confident, and Compassionate
Each participant receives a notebook plus a copy of
How to Mend a Broken Heart by Dick Innes
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