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St. Louis FamilyLife Weekend to Remember Dec. 3-5

Is your marriage in trouble? Could it stand a little improvement? Do you need some assistance to help restore it? Then you need to attend the upcoming FamilyLife Weekend to Remember Conference on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, December 3-5 right here in St. Louis.

A Weekend to Remember is a dynamic 3-day getaway that will revolutionize and reenergize your marriage! This year’s conference will be held at the romantic Hyatt Regency Hotel in Union Station in downtown St. Louis and will afford you and your spouse an incredible opportunity to talk, laugh, learn, and reconnect.

FamilyLife’s marriage experts are real people who know what it takes to have a fulfilling marriage. They will lead you through a relaxed conference schedule that allows plenty of time for you and your spouse to discuss what you’re learning, not to mention the romantic “Date Night“ that will provide time away from the distractions of daily living.

God desires that you have a rewarding marriage relationship, and He is willing and able to make that happen. For more than 28 years, the Weekend to Remember has been teaching couples of all faiths and ages the biblical principles necessary to build lifelong, caring relationships. Lives have been changed and relationships have been restored.

This year in St. Louis, alumni of past conferences will have the opportunity to attend the Peacemaker Alumni Sessions. Conflict in marriage is inevitable. Even Christian couples must take deliberate steps to prevent problems and persevere through troubled times. In The Peacemaker Marriage, couples will utilize the peacemaking principles to learn to deal with conflict before trouble arises.

Sessions will prepare you to respond to inevitable conflicts in a biblically faithful manner. As you and your spouse learn how to be peacemakers, you will not only strengthen your marriage, but also turn it into a place where God is glorified, others are served, and both of you are steadily being conformed to the image of the great Peacemaker, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Also, this year in St. Louis, Bob Lepine, co-host of the FamilyLife Today radio program, will be one of our speakers!

A Weekend To Remember conference can make a good marriage better and can spark new hope for a relationship that has nearly died. One of the favorite letters FamilyLife has received over the years was from a grown daughter who expressed her amazement at the changes in her parents, married 27 years, after they attended a conference in Washington, D.C. Her letter read:

“Dear FamilyLife:

I don’t know what you did with my real mom and dad, but I love the new ones you’ve sent me. My parents were among the hundreds of couples at the Weekend to Remember conference this past weekend, and boy are they different!

“I am convinced you switched my real parents with people who look like them, because:

1. Every day since the conference, they have been talking over what they learned and comparing notes from their workbooks over dinner.

2. They have been talking instead of arguing.

3. Dad calls Mom “my wife” instead of “your mother.”

4. They talk about legacies, about communication, about understanding one another.

5. My mom actually asks my dad to do things instead of expecting him to offer—and he says yes!

6. They’re even holding hands.

7. They’re clinging to each other instead of to us kids! Hallelujah!

“What did you do to them?

“I remember praying as a little girl that my parents’ fighting would stop, that the constant tension between them would dissipate, and that they would just show love to one another. Both of them were always very leery about seeking outside help; they had resigned themselves to the idea of being good parents, but having an unfulfilling marriage.

“Though I’m now out of the house and living my own life, the Lord never forgot the prayers of my childhood. I was blessed to be listening to FamilyLife Today on my way to work on the Thursday before the conference. WAVA offered free registration to the sixth caller. Stuck in traffic, I fumbled for my mobile phone and frantically dialed.

“When Mr. Lee answered the phone, I held my breath, and then asked, ‘What caller am I?’ He answered laughingly, ‘About the 112th!’ I told him I had hoped to win the registration for my parents, married 27 years. Out of compassion, he told me the next giveaway was mine!

“I wondered how I would get them to actually go to the conference. I told the Lord that only He could have arranged for me to get the reservations, so I would trust Him to see that my parents made it there.

“I called both of them from work that morning and informed them they had about 28 hours to prepare themselves for three days together. Surprisingly, they agreed. To my heart’s delight, they went off to the conference Friday night; I was grateful they didn’t have longer to think about going or else they may have changed their minds.

“I sent to the conference a man and a woman who had given up all hope of happiness. You retuned to me two people committed to the goal of having a fulfilling and godly relationship with one another and to living out the rest of their days in love and hope.”

Whether your marriage needs hope for the future, practical skills for daily living, or simply a time of refreshment, register today for a weekend that will change your marriage and your life forever!

To register for the St. Louis Weekend to Remember conference December 3-5 call 1-800-FLTODAY (1-800-358-6329) or go to www.familylife.com.