FREE Laugh Your Way
Seminars!
No need to adjust your glasses…you saw correctly! thinkmarriage is inviting
you and your spouse to attend a FREE Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage Seminar!
Community Program Director Debra Bosacki is coordinating this laugh out loud, male
friendly seminar that helps couples realize an immediate, positive change to their marriage. It’s also great for engaged couples.
You’ll enjoy an in-person Laugh Your Way presenter along with Mark Gungor on High Definition screens. Plus! Every person who
pre-registers will receive a FREE Flag Page Code, a $20.00 value that you can bring with you to the seminar to understand
more about your unique passions in life. This $40.00 per couple ticket is a FREE gift to your marriage from
thinkmarriage.org.
All seminars are Friday night from 7-10 pm and Sat., 8 am until 1 pm.
Find the dates and location that fit your schedule and get registered by
emailing:
register@thinkmarriage.org
Include your full names, contact info, and which seminar you are planning to
attend.
July 13th and 14th – Memorial Baptist Church in Fond du
Lac.
Aug. 10th and 11th – Living Hope Church formerly Interfaith
fellowship in Green Bay
Aug. 17th and 18th Evangel Assembly of God in Milwaukee
Aug. 24th and 25th New Hope Lutheran Church in
Neenah.
These FREE events will fill up fast, so tell all your friends and get
registered today!
Spanish Laugh Your Way Event August 4th, Green Bay
The Foundation
For Great Marriage will be co-hosting a special, live Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage event in Spanish
at Celebration Church in Green Bay on Saturday, August 4th.
This seminar will feature
Mark Gungor on stage along with Chris Ferrell who will translate the entire seminar into Spanish... live!
This event is being
written to touch themes that are specific to the Hispanic populations around the United States.
The entire seminar will be
professionally filmed and used as centerpiece of the new LYWA Spanish Programs regional seminars. So dress nicely - you might end up on
TV!
This FREE seminar will
take place from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM. We would love
to welcome any Spanish speakers to this free event.
There will also be free
transportation from Milwaukee if needed. For more information contact Chris at chrisf@laughyourway.com
Mid July Web News!
Watch our website in mid-July…you’re going to see some big changes!
We’ll still have the same wealth of great information, but the look and interaction will be different. Take a quiz....go to the
blog…see the new media section which also includes audio and video! Meet Executive Director Susan Dutton Freund in a way you didn't think
possible. Curious?
Then be watching www.thinkmarriage.org
in mid July!
Classes...We've got Classes!
The latest How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk(ette) class is wrapping up and couples are currently enjoying a 10 Great Dates Class.
Along with the new website in mid July will come a great new calendar with
all the classes available through thinkmarriage.org. Why not plan on attending a class and bring a friend!
There's no Place Like Home
thinkmarriage and Foundation for a Great Marriage is located in a
unique neighborhood in the heart of Green Bay.
Because we'd like to get to know the area and our neighbors better, we're
hosting a series of "brat frys" this summer to let more people know who we are. As we reach out to the state, we don't want to forget our own
neighborhood!
If you happen to be driving by on a summer afternoon and notice some interesting
things happening in our parking lot, stop in and have a free brat!
Next Edition...
In our next edition you will hear more about FGM staff trips to Smart Marriages in
Denver and Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood conference in Washington D.C.
As Always...
Send your thoughts, comments, encouragements and interesting tidbits in regards
to this newsletter to Editor, Michele Olson at michele@thinkmarriage.org
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Who You Gonna Call?
We are so excited about our hot-off-the-presses Marriage Myth-Buster Guide!
Now you can be a “card-carrying” Marriage Champion with your very own
guide! Everyone is entitled to one free guide, and if you’d like more, there’s a nominal shipping and handling charge. Our goal is to
have every teen and adult in our state aware of this guide. The information inside tells the straight story of what 20 years of social science
research has shown about marriage and divorce and its affect on all of us…but it’s done in an engaging way that makes you want to read
and share with the people in your circle of influence! Get a guide and order more to get them into the hands of everyone in your church, synagogue,
community program or even the people you hang out with in the lunch room! Send your request to : info@thinkmarriage.org Put I want to be a Marriage Champion in the subject
line.
A New Summer of Love…or the Legacy of the Hippies
What’s that about? You’ll have to find out by going to the blog!
http://www.wimarriagechat.org/
Be there or be square. (And don't forget to let your voice be heard by leaving a
comment!)
FREE MONEY, just by how you search the internet!
Tell fellow supporters of our healthy marriage movement how they can raise additional
money just by GoodSearching.
What if thinkmarriage/Foundation for a Great Marriage earned a penny every time you
searched the Internet? Well, now we can!
GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates half its revenue,
about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. You use it just as you would any search engine, and it's powered by Yahoo!, so you
get great results.
Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter Foundation for a Great Marriage or
thinkmarriage (all one word) as the charity you want to support. Just 500 of us searching four times a day will raise about $7300 in a year
without anyone spending a dime! You can easily make it your home page so you won't forget. Be sure to spread the word!
Communications Director, Michele Olson
has been invited by YOU Magazine, a Green Bay based women's
publication, to have a monthly column where people can anonymously write in questions about healthy relationships and marriages. The column is called
Ask Michele. As a result, readers of the magazine will know more about thinkmarriage.org! The editors of the magazine will pick several
questions and answers to be featured each month. The magazine is distributed free throughout the Green Bay area.
Questions for the column can be sent to: youmagazine@wisinfo.com
June 5-7th found Dixie Zittlow, Community Programs Director at Within My Reach
Training.
Within My Reach is a strategic new curriculum to improve the chances for the
economically disadvantaged to attain relationship success for themselves and their children. A training was held in Madison, WI and led by one
of the co-creators of the program, Marline Pearson. Twenty-one participants from nine different organizations and five different counties
participated. (Dane, Milwaukee, Brown, Polk and Buffalo/Pepin.)
Early Childhood Initiative of Allied St. hosted the training, provided the venue and the
lunches for all 3 days. The enthusiasm of the participants was very encouraging and Dixie looks forward to seeing this program implemented.
Because this training filled up to capacity so quickly, another training is planned for Aug.
or Sept. of 2007.
Contact dixie@thinkmarriage.org for more information.
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