Courses

The Marriage Course

The Marriage Course will be running for seven Monday evenings starting on Monday 1st of August 2011.  Email Ps Sharon for more information.

The Marriage Course is a must attend course no matter how your marriage is going. Like a warrant of fitness for your car at the Marriage Course you get the opportunity to ensure everything in your marriage is in running smoothly as well as the tools to improve different areas.

The course is run with cafe style seating ensuring you and your partner enjoy an intimate 'date like' atmosphere where you can discuss various areas of your marriage as prompted by the DVD presentations. You'll also enjoy some beautiful dessert served to your table each night.  

Each session is practical, informative and fun. There is never any group work and you will never be asked to share anything about your relationship with anyone other than your partner.

Over seven sessions of the course you'll discover practical tools to help you...

       - understand each other’s needs
       - communicate more effectively
       - grow closer through resolving conflict
       - heal the ways you may have hurt each other
       - recognise how your upbringing affects your relationship
       - improve relationships with parents and in-laws
       - develop greater sexual intimacy and discover each other’s love languages

Each session is interspersed with film clips of couples talking about their experiences of marriage and street interviews from around the world. We have loved hosting this course for the last three years and have had great feedback from the couples we have taken through this course.

“Good learning about each others differences"
"Talk about stuff you generally wouldn’t"
"Showed importance of communication"
"Well organised, fun, desserts and presentation of excellent quality"

So please come and join us.

The Marriage Preparation Couse

The Marriage Preparation Course will be running for five Monday evenings starting on Monday 1st of August 2011. Email Ps Sharon for more information.

If you’re like most people you prepare and plan for many things in life; education, career, retirement and holidays. And most couples spend up to 250 hours planning their wedding, but very little time, if any, planning for married life. There are many things you can do to begin building a lifelong, happy marriage. Investing in your relationship before you are married will reap rewards for many years to come.

The Marriage Preparation course is a five session course that would be a great investment into your future marriage. It is set in a fantastic atmosphere we're at your own table you are served a candlelit dessert in a romantic setting while listening to practical talks that are informative and fun played on DVD.

We love to be able to host this amazing course for those who are engaged or living together and thinking about getting married. Each evening runs for about 2 hours with time of discussion and questions with a host couple if you wish afterwards. There is never any group work and you will never be asked to share anything about your relationship with anyone other than your partner.

We have been running The Marriage Preparation Course for three years and have had great feedback...

“We learned better ways to deal with conflict ……. I loved the way it was presented in a modern and often humourous fun way……. It helped us improve or relationship and work on issues in a healthy way……. It helped us talk to each other better.”

So come and join us for a great time in a relaxed and fun environment.

The marriagecourse.org.nz has further information on this wonderful course.

Cleansing Stream

We all tend to have 'baggage' that accumulates in our lives and is anything but helpful - such things as disppointment, guilt, rejection, etc. The Cleansing Stream course teaches how to walk free and to not pick that sort of baggage up again.

For more information on this course, future dates or to register, please email us.

Kairos Couse

Kairos Course is currently running, for more information on future dates, please email us.

The Kairos Course is a fantastic introduction to World Mission and God's heart for humanity. The course covers the world wide Christian movement from Genesis throughout the New Testament, from modern history to where we are today in the 21st Century, and how we can play our part in God's worldwide mission of mercy.

The course is $55 and we runs for 9 weeks on Monday nights, once a year.  Course costs cover supper and a work booklet.

Toolbox Parenting

Toolbox Parenting Course

For information on future courses, please e-mail Ps Sharon.

This is a great course to set you on the path to be the best parent for your littlies. The course is interactive, has DVD presentations, group work and fun!!! Our kindergarten, Shalom, is running this course and they would love to have you along! It will be a great morning of learning and meeting other parents on a similar parenting journey. It truly is an investment in your family.

Toolbox

Here at City Church we love empowering and equipping parents. We want to help parents to do the best job they can in raising kids that are great fun, self disciplined  and make a positive contribution to society. Using Parents Inc.’s fantastic Toolbox Course we learn together how to help our children to grow well!!

Toolbox is a six week parenting programme run for ages 0-6, 6-12 or teenagers. The Toolbox courses are a mixture of DVD presentations, discussion and supper to encourage learning together.

It is great to see parents talking, discussing and brainstorming how best to raise our children in a non threatening often humorous way. The Toolbox DVD presenters are so practical and down to earth so the teaching and advice they give makes sense and is easily applied. The Toolbox Manual is a great resource to refer back to during and after the Course when issues arise with our children.

We take driving lessons, swimming lessons and get diplomas and degrees in various fields of study. Often though in regards to the important task of rasing children we don’t have any training Let's learn together and be faithful in raising the next generation to be all that God intended them to be.

Prayer Ministry

Have you ever prayed with someone or had prayer and known afterwards there is more that needs praying about? Have you ever been asked to pray for someone and felt you just didn’t get to the bottom of the need? Have you just wanted to pray for someone til you got the answer?

The Prayer Ministry Course could be for you.

This in-depth course is for those who would like to learn about and grow in the knowledge and experience of spiritual warfare and the prayer which breaks strongholds and bondages, and brings about cleansing, freedom and deliverance in people’s lives. It employs 3 aspects of discipleship; teaching, training and reaching.

The course is open to anyone who has completed the Cleansing Stream Course, attended a Cleansing Stream Retreat and who has a desire to help others be set free.

It is a 2 year course presented into modules of 3 or 4 months meeting fortnightly.

It includes DVD, CDs relevant books and has further study in workbooks.

The modules include: Who He is and Who we Are, The Weapons of our Warfare and You’re an Intercessor.

Participants will also receive practical training in spiritual warfare and how to pray for cleansing, break bondages and see people set free though the power of Jesus Christ.

This course begins on Monday the 28th of February.  If you are interested and want to know more, please email David and Fran for information.

Dollars & $ense

A practical money course for all ages and stages.

Have you ever wondered if your children are up-skilled enough to leave home, make wise financial decisions or have good thinking and attitudes around money? As adults could we do better when it comes to being good stewards of our finances? How did we get our attitudes about money anyway? Why do we react when people talk about money and how could we teach our children to be even better with money than we are?

We think we have a timely answer. We are running a Dollars & $ense course for adults and young people to attend. This course is like having a WOF on our attitudes about money, up-skilling our financial management for those who are good with money and for those who would like to be better.

If you financially savvy or think a tip or two would be of huge benefit this course is for you.
If you've just started your first after school job, are on a benefit or are earning big bucks this course is for you too!

We will be running this course late this year.  For more information, please email us.

Introduction to the New Testament - Part 2

For information on future courses, please email.

DVD sessions with Dr David Parker

Intro part 1 is not a pre-requist for Intro part 2, even if you have not completed the first part of the course you'll fit in fine.

* Learn about the literary shape, themes, and historic-cultural background of the individual New Testament books.
* Learn skills that will aid in the interpretation of New Testament texts and their application to life today.
* Develop a devout and informed use of God’s word in personal and pastoral contexts.
* Enhance your passion and love for God and God’s word.