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Jerry and Lynn Jones

Resources to strengthen your family

For many years, Jerry and Lynn Jones have shared their Marriage Matters seminar to strengthen marriages.  We have been fortunate to have them here twice.  If you missed their conference sessions, please visit their website. They provided a number of resources, including books and websites, on a variety of topics, some of which are listed below. For those members of our church family who would like to check-out the DVD set of the Marriage Matters eight core presentations, please contact the church office.

If you would like to download their full list of additional resources, click here.

We also have several resources on our Sexuality Resources page.

Be sure to check out our curated resources on Building Faith in Children.

Finances

Financial Peace University
The fastest way to beat debt.  After this nine-week class, the average Financial Peace University graduate is debt-free in two years or less.

Grief

GriefShare
At GriefShare you’ll receive valuable guidance and tips, leading you to relief, comfort, and peace of mind.

Marriage

Focus on the Family - Marriage
Resources to improve communication and work through a number of topics related to strengthening your marriage.
DVDs, articles, and audio material to help you make God the center of your marriage.
The 5 Love Languages® is a simple and effective way to strengthen your connections, so you can experience greater joy and harmony in all of your relationships.

Courses that strengthen marriages. Workshops that save marriages.  You can make a difference. We can help.

A New Beginning is a 3-day weekend workshop. Thousands of couples have used these research-based tools to transform their marriages.

Parenting

See our curated resources for building and strengthening lasting lifetime faith in your children.

Common Sense Media
Ratings and reviews parents trust.
Help your children heal from the pain of divorce.
Videos, articles, and other resources to help you improve your parenting skills.

Smart Step Families
Our goal is getting you smart about blended family living. Whether dating or married with stepchildren, a stepmom or stepfather, a stepgrandparent, ministry leader, mentor, relationship coach, or therapist we can help.

Pornography

Covenant Eyes
Join over 1.7 million people who’ve used Covenant Eyes to experience victory over porn.
Decades of studies from respected institutions have demonstrated significant impacts of porn consumption for individuals, relationships, and society.

These judgment-free resources are designed to encourage you and give you practical steps to move toward freedom and recovery.

Struggling with sexual addiction and porn? We can help!
Curious about the latest research on internet porn's effects?

Seniors

The user-friendly advance directive used by more than 40 million people.  Five Wishes is an easy-to-use legal document written in easy to understand terms. Available in 30 languages.

The Missouri Bar has developed and makes available as a public service a “Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care and Health Care Directive” for use by the general public.  Note:  In addition to a Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare, you should see an attorney to prepare a Durable Financial Power of Attorney, which would allow your selected agent(s) to make business and financial decisions on your behalf.  This can be part of a broader discussion with your attorney regarding you will and estate planning.

Fraud

This award winning cheat sheet by KnowBe4 will help you identify malicious email messages.

Events and classes on fraud prevention for senior citizens.

Articles and resources on scam and fraud prevention for older Americans.

These are some Always and Never tips we have compiled from a number of sources.  Intended as a single handout sheet, feel free to download and share with others.

Each year, millions of elderly Americans fall victim to some type of financial fraud or confidence scheme, including romance, lottery, and sweepstakes scams—just to name a few.  Educate yourself by visiting this FBI website.

Reporting Fraud
Have you been scammed?  Reporting it in a timely manner is important.  In most cases, for there to be any hope of recovering lost funds you must report the incident to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) within 24 hours.  You should consider:
  • Filing a report with your local police department.
  • Notifying any financial institutions that were involved.
  • Notifying the three credit bureaus Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.
  • Signing-up for identify theft protection.
  • Filing a report with the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

Elder Fraud Training

Scenario-based Elder Fraud Training

We know that many are eager to attend our elder fraud training.  We are still working on scheduling that in the near future.  In the meantime, we have developed some scenario-based training regarding elder fraud and scams.  This training covers 15 different scenarios.  There is no charge, and you can complete the training as many times as you like.  If you would like to send the training to others via email or post it on social media, copy the link below and then paste the link in an email or on social media.  If the training is helpful or you have suggestions, please contact us.

https://seekgrowservelove.org/noindex/ef/index.html

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