Strong families are the foundation of your church or synagogue. It isn’t your great preaching or advertising that will draw people through your doors and lead to changed lives. We must be an effective example to the community, because they will know us by our fruit.

The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. How many families are growing this fruit together? Or are our orchards filled with the fruit of strife, yelling, anxiety, rushing around and tantrums (by kids and adults)?

There is one thing beyond dispute—the worst family fights each week occur on Sunday mornings on the way to church!

What Can Churches Do?
Having Calm Couples leading Calm Kids is absolutely critical. We support the redemptive mission of the church in reconciling men, women and children to their Creator, and reconciling parents and children to one another.

Calm is peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness and self-control. So if you want to spread calm to couples and kids, we urge you to host a Calm Couples™ Workshop and Calm Kids™ Parenting Workshop.



Calm Couples™ Marriage Restoration Workshop (2-3 hours)The divorce rate in the church is as high as the divorce rate in the rest of society. Though many put on a happy face on Sunday morning, most couples are struggling.

Married couples have been told several lies. We’ve been told that our lives need to revolve around our kids and that our spouse is supposed to meet our needs. We’ve got a checklist a mile long filled with resentments and fifteen good reasons our spouse needs to change. We think the grass is greener somewhere else. We’d leave if not for the kids.

We continually react to each other out of fear and anxiety—over money, sex, miscommunication, pride and how to raise the kids. Men withdraw and become emotionally distant. And before you know it, couples have drifted apart and no longer have anything in common. We may not be screaming at each other on the outside, but we are on the inside. It’s time to calm your marriage and your home, so you can build a great marriage that lasts…and that you want to be in because you like your spouse, not out of obligation.





Calm Kids™  Workshop for Parents (2-3 hours)
70% of homes, even among church-going families, are now considered “explosive households” characterized by strife, yelling and debilitating stress. Parents spend less than three minutes each day having conversations with their kids. The yelling begins with the morning rush, resumes during the nightly war over homework and culminates at bedtime. This is no way to live.

Kids control the home through their tantrums and defiance. We must take back control, but in order to do so we must first be in control of ourselves as parents. Come discover 100 practical strategies to calm your home, enjoy stress-free discipline and homework time, and help your kids become more responsible. Perfect for parents of children from 2-42!

Dads Only Workshop (2 hours)
Men are the weather systems that effect the emotional climate of the home. If the father comes home agitated or irritated, the lightning storm immediately commences. If Dad comes home in a good mood, his wife breathes a sigh of relief. Men, did you know most women "manage" your relationship with the kids, and often feel relieved when you are away on business trips? You need to be a positive force in your home. And your legacy will live on through your children, not through the temporary successes of your business. It's time to enjoy being a man, a husband and a father again. Specially designed for small groups of men.


What are the Benefits of Hosting Workshops?
Many churches use the Workshops as an outreach tool to reach families in your community who would otherwise never walk through your doors.

If every family in your church invited one family to our Calm Couples and Calm Kids Parenting Workshops, your pews would be overflowing.

You are sowing the seeds for dramatic transformation by saving and strengthening marriages and helping families regain control. We will show you how to transform Children’s Church and Youth Groups by giving responsibility and ownership to young people.


When can we host the Workshops?
Some churches prefer to host a Calm Couples Workshop on Friday evening followed by a Calm Kids Parenting Workshop on Saturday morning. Some host both Workshops on a Saturday or Sunday. Others choose Wednesday evening service, as part of a Family Life Series or during a Retreat.

We can customize our Workshops to meet your specific needs. The cost for the Workshops is typically $5,000, but we provide a substantial discount for churches. The total cost is $2,000 plus travel expenses.

Some churches provide the Workshops as a ministry to members and outreach to the community, and ask for a free will offering. Other churches charge a modest fee and recoup the entire investment (i.e. 80 families pay a nominal fee of $25 each).


Please contact Education Director Kirk Martin directly at 703.508.7908 or CalmClassrooms@yahoo.com to schedule a Workshop.