Classes

Lydia Center Classes

• Mom Factor

  This class will help clients learn that the way their mother handled their needs as a child has shaped their worldview, relationships, self image – the whole of their life. The Mom Factor is a biblical route to wholeness and growth, to deeper and more satisfying bonds with family and friends, and to a new, healthier way of relating to their mother today.

• When People are Big and God is Small

  This curriculum identifies the problem of identity – obtaining identity from other people rather than God. Chapters include “People will see me”, “People will reject me”, “People will physically hurt me”, “Know the Fear of the Lord”, “Grow in the Fear of the Lord”, “Biblically Examine your felt needs”, “Know your Real Needs”, and more. By Ed Welch.

• The Peacemaking Church

  This book deals with Biblical Conflict Resolution. It gives the tools needed to navigate conflicts. Every conflict is an opportunity to glorify God, serve God and grow in Christ likeness. The framework for understanding and resolving conflict are known as the “The Four G’s” – Glorify God; Get the log out of your eye, Gently restore; and Go and be reconciled. By Ken Sande.

• Safe People

  The book deals with how to find relationships that are good for you. The curriculum focuses on traits of unsafe people, how to become a safe person, recognize what makes people trustworthy and how to form positive relationships. By Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

• Celebrate Recovery

  Celebrate Recovery is a Christ centered recovery program that was created by John Baker and is based on Eight Principles from the Beatitudes. It incorporates the classic twelve steps from AA and implements their biblical comparisons through Scripture. It emphasizes personal responsibility through the realization and acceptance that we cannot control what others have done but we can control how we choose to respond. It also emphasizes a commitment to a relationship with Jesus Christ through total surrender of your life to Him, without which lasting recovery cannot happen. By Rick Warren.

• Genesis Process

  This recovery class helps clients identify why they do what they don’t want to do. The study helps clients experience personal growth and healing through understanding what has been missing or wounded in their lives and how it has affected them and their relationships – including their relationship with God. By Michael Dye.

• Sexual Integrity

  This is a small group setting where each woman can begin to work through healing the brokenness that resulted from sexual trauma, sexual abuse and sexual misuse. It also helps women understand what healthy relationships look like.

Discipleship Classes:

• How People Change

  This curriculum focuses on looking at ourselves through the mirror of God’s Word, knowing and relying on Christ’s grace, and learning how to step into life with renewed faith and courage. The whole curriculum is based on how Christ changes us by His Grace. By Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation.

• Breaking Free

  This curriculum describes the benefits of our relationship with God and how to remove the obstacles that hinder that relationship. The study is based on Isaiah 61:1-4. By Beth Moore.

• Be Transformed

  This class is a resource for discovering biblical solutions to life’s problems. It is centered around Christ, based upon the authority and sufficiency of scripture and leads each willing individual into a useful life changing experience through the renewal of their belief systems.

• Invitation to Freedom

  This curriculum is a journey from brokenness to wholeness featuring Beth Moore’s intimate narrative and personal testimonies from individuals who have overcome past hurts. It’s a way to share the encouragement, healing and hope found only in Christ. By Beth Moore.

• Believing God

  Drawing from the "Heroes of the Faith" in Hebrews 11, this study examines the lives of Abraham, Moses and others who believed God. Through their examples, the study explores what it means to know and truly believe God as described in Isaiah 43:10 and encourages women to deepen their own trust in God and receive a fresh word from Him. By Beth Moore.

• Mean Girls All Grown Up

  Gossip, insults, and cutthroat competition doesn’t automatically stop after high school. You'll find the same sour notes at college, work, and sometimes in religious institutions. The study shows you how to deal with an "ugly" past, understand meanness, realize the beauty of positive friendships---and see yourself in a whole new light! By Haley DiMarco.