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Subject: Pastors Guide to Counseling Troubled Marriages

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:59:13 -0700

From: Pastor Dawn Teuthorn <pastordawn@saintjudes.org>

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From: Pastor Dawn Teuthorn <pastordawn@saintjudes.org>
Subject: Pastors Guide to Counseling Troubled Marriages
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:59:13 -0700
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Hi all!

Last  1st Tuesday, I spoke of a wonderful pastor's guide to  
counseling troubled marriages.  Charles (Chuck) L. Rassieur is  
retired pastoral counselor and author willing to spend 3 hours with  
us exploring his book & plan which originated from collaboration with  
Professor William Smith of Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary,  
now Luther Seminary, in St. Paul.

I have myself had a chance to explore with Charles his work and have  
used it with success and great appreciation.  As he says, we pastors  
are often the first to see when a marriage is in trouble and have a  
special opportunity to respond in ways others cannot.

Chuck has offered to come on a 1st Tuesday for FREE to acquaint us  
with his work enough for us to feel confident enough to use it.  His  
suggestion based on your input last meeting is that he can come the  
1st Tuesday in February--February 3, 2009 at a local congregation.   
We thought we could meet from 11:30-3 (gather for bag lunch & welcome  
first half hour followed by 3 hr workshop with a break halfway  
through).  We could lengthen workshop to 3:30 if an hour lunch is  
preferred.

No matter what, this would alter the typical way we do 1st Tuesdays,  
but it seemed unanimous that this would be the optimal way to get  
more pastors to attend. (If there are pastors of other conferences or  
denominations interested in attending, they would be more than  
welcome.  This is a very practical resource for any pastor.)

David Bonde offered Los Altos Lutheran as possible meeting place.   
Others also shared the possibility of sharing their space for this  
purpose.  Chuck has family here in Cupertino and would not even  
request mileage if the church is fairly nearby.  Is this a good date  
for any of you to house and attend?  Consider it and I'll bring the  
book as well as announce next Tuesday.

The only other effort would be to get the book, a very handy resource  
prior to or on day of workshop.  If someone were to offer to buy in  
bulk, the cost would be even cheaper.  It's a worthy resource to  
have.  But, so is exploring it as a group especially with its author,  
prior to its use.

Thx!

Dawn Teuthorn
St. Jude the Apostle in Cupertino