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[No registration is required. Freewill offering
will be received.]
Risk to Resilience: Building Our Children’s Capacity for Health, Hope and Joy
[Date: 26 July 2010]
Dr
Maureen Neihart
If there were a vaccine available to protect you from future hopelessness and despair, would you take it? Would you have your children take it? Why do some children achieve while others do not? Why do some youth persevere when the odds are stacked against them, while others give up? Why are some more vulnerable, while others are more resilient? In this thought provoking and uplifting session, we will take a look at exciting research on children’s resilience which suggests that it is possible ‘to be inoculated’ against future depression and despair. We will examine our own individual potential for hope and hopelessness and discuss what specific steps we can take to build both our and our children’s capacities for hope, health and joy.
It is strongly recommended that you complete the Optimism Test, available for free at www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu, before attending this talk and bring your printed results with you when you come. You will need to register on the website to access the assessment. Registration is free and you will find this session more meaningful to you if you have assessed your own level of optimism ahead of time.
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Success: God’s View
[Date: 27 July 2010]
Rev Dr
Siang-Yang Tan
A Biblical perspective on true success from God’s view will be presented. It will emphasize Christlike love or agape (I Cor 13:1-8; Jn 13:34,35), servanthood and humility (Mt 20:25-27), faithfulness (Mt 25:21), vulnerability and strength in weakness (2 Cor 12:9,10), doing our best as unto the Lord (Col 3:23), fruitfulness (Jn 15:5,16), and becoming more like Jesus (Rom 8:29). |
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The Cross in Pastoral Care
[Date: 28 July 2010]
Bishop Dr
Robert Solomon
The classic functions of pastoral care have been identified as healing, sustaining, reconciling and guiding. We will see how the cross of Christ lies at the heart of these various acts of pastoral care. Jesus, the Great Healer of the soul comes to us to enable us to experience the fullness of life through His cross. This same grace and self-giving love lies at the heart of pastoral care, without which strategies to help people are limited by human ideologies and methods. |
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