Laughing Your Way to Healing Workshop - March 24, 2018
Freedom House Ministry is excited to host an afternoon of joy & laughter led by…
Mari Anne Andersen & Melliney Saltarelli
Saturday, March 24, 2018 – 12:30 to 4:30pm (Doors open at 12:00pm)
View & Share "Laughing Your Way to Healing" Event Flyer
Did you hear about why the cookie went to the hospital? Because he felt crummy!
Why did Johnny throw the clock out of the window? He wanted to see time fly!
What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta!
Do you know the answers to these questions?
- What happens to your blood vessels when you laugh? Is it good or bad for them?
- How does laughter affect your emotional brain health?
- What can laughter do for your struggle with stress and anxiety?
- Can laughter be a “food” for your body? If so, how?
- How can you increase your respiratory rate and oxygen consumption without paying a doctor’s bill?
- Isn’t the Bible an old, stuffy book that makes people feel condemned and sad?
- What can laughter do to fear? We all have it, and don’t know what to do with it!
- How can you stop wasting your life?
According to that adorable and hysterical comic Charlie Chaplin, you are wasting your life if you spend your days without laughter: “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
Come and get the answers to these questions and many more. Find out how you can change “a day wasted” to a “day of investment” in your heart, emotional, and brain health!
The Bible is right! – A merry heart does good, like medicine Proverbs 17:22a
Join us as we learn the value of laughter from God’s perspective, from science’s perspective, and from medicine’s perspective.
Three aspects will be presented and experienced at this workshop:
- The Scriptural, scientific, and medical foundation for the importance of laughter in our lives.
- Handouts to use during the workshop and to take home for practice—to understand what happens to the brain, the heart, and the spirit when YOU laugh.
- Practice exercises that will equip you to laugh in the days to come, to respond in new ways to the events in your life, to empower you to see from God’s perspective, to have childlike faith to believe that with God all things are possible!
Beware!!! Laughter will be on the premises!
Location:
Kingsland Properties
25W560 Geneva Rd
Carol Stream, IL 60188
(0.2 miles west of Gary Ave on the north side of Geneva Rd. “Kingsland Properties” name is on the marquee in front. Looks like a one-story office building in front, but two-story in back. Just west of blue building. Set back from the road. Parking and entrance at the rear of the building.)
Cost & Registration:
- $40* per person $60* per couple
- Hors d'oeuvres & desserts served
- Free-will offering will be taken.
*PayPal fees will be applied.
To Register & Pay:
- By PayPal or Credit Card:
- By Check or Cash: Call or text Dorie 224-434-1200 or drlorden@att.net. Include names attending.
Women's Esther Retreat - Turning Fear into Faith | February 23-24
A Personal Invitation to FHM Women,
You are invited to a very exciting, personal, heart-to-heart, refreshing over-night getaway called “Women’s Esther Retreat” on Friday February 23 and Saturday February 24.
There is no time to lose and there’s limited space, so if you really want to come, do act quickly!
Women's Esther Retreat Event Flyer
Friday, February 23, 2018
4:00pm - Check into the French Country Inn on the Lake, Lake Geneva, WI
5:30pm - Bedtime
- Esther Banquet Dinner – Choice of 3 Entrees Including Dessert
- The Pajama Party - Bring PJ’s, Robe & Slippers and a snack to share
Saturday, February 24, 2018
7:30am - Continental Breakfast (Included in room rate)
9:00am – 4:00pm (Lunch will be provided)
- Renew/Refresh/Rejuvenate heart to heart and woman to woman
Activities Will Include:
- Soaking Music
- Questions to open your heart
- Games
- Sharing life, love, laughs
- Scriptural insights
- Esther & Myrrh
- Finding raw courage
- Come to Esther’s Banquet
- Choosing faith over fear
Costs include Room with Continental Breakfast & Friday Night Dinner.
- Love Offering will be taken for FHM for this free event: check or cash
- Must attend BOTH Friday and Saturday.
Step 1: Register Your Name, Contact Information, & Entrée Choice with Sheryl Schmidt:
- paschmidt15@gmail.com or phone/text her at 630-660-2609
- Separate payment of $30 for Friday Dinner. Cash or check made out to FHM to be paid to Sheryl upon arrival. (She will tell you the entrée choices when you register.)
Step 2: Book & Pay for Your Reduced-Rate Room at 262-374-5999. Use “Freedom House”:
- Charges for FHM, include Continental Breakfast. Rooms can be shared.
- 8 Petite King Rooms $108
- 1 Standard King Room $116
- If sharing a room, give the Inn both names of persons staying in the room.
See the newly remodeled French Country Inn online for photos & location: http://www.frenchcountryinn.com
Blessings,
Dorie, for Mari Anne & Sheryl Schmidt
Dorie Lorden
Assistant to Mari Anne Andersen, Director of FHM
drlorden@att.net
224-434-1200
A Christmas Miracle Truce - It Can Really Happen [VIDEO]
Please join me and listen to a special Christmas message I have prepared just for you. May you be blessed as I share His wondrous love, miracles and truth at this Christmas Season of pure joy and wondrous love because Emanuel - our God is with us. A very Merry & Blessed Christmas from my heart to your heart.
https://youtu.be/MrQlIqcGNHE
- Mari Anne Andersen
Write Mari Anne with any thoughts, questions or comments you may have: marianne@freedomhouseministry.com
Fall Fun-Raiser 2017
We invite you to join us at Freedom House Ministry's Fall 2017 Fun-Raiser!
Comedy w/ Tracy DeGraaf
Our speaker for comedy night, Tracy DeGraaf, is well-known and speaks across the USA so you won’t want to miss out on a night of laughs and inspiration, while you are blessing FHM. We all need fun and laughter to cheer and feed our spirits. And who better to do that with than the FHM family?!
Tribute to Rose Marie
- RMB is our spiritual mother and just think how thrilled and encouraged she will be to see each one of you at this special event—something she has wanted FHM to do for a long time—have a Fun night.
- Will you make a special effort to come to bless RMB?
Download the updated event flyer
DATE: Saturday, November 18
TIME: 5:00pm
WHAT: Comedy Night
WHERE: Kingsland Properties (25W560 Geneva Rd, Carol Stream, IL 60188)
Tickets are $50 per person, which includes dinner & dessert, a chance to win door prizes, and a chance to bid on over 15 amazing silent auction items.
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FHM Schools Start Again September 9th - Register Today
Healing, Freedom and Growth
Our schools are a great opportunity to learn, experience healing, and grow in your walk with God. We are excited to be offering Course 201 and 202 again this Fall, 2017:
- Courses start on September 9th
- Applications due August 28th
Course 201
This school is for any layman, pastor, Christian leader, counselor, or therapist, seeking experience in prayer counseling ministry and healing from life's hurts, and desire to begin restoring healthy relationships with God and others.
Course 201 Info
Course 202
This school is for any layman, pastor, Christian leader, counselor, or therapist, seeking experience in prayer ministry and healing from life's hurts, and desire to begin restoring healthy relationships with God and others.
A prerequisite to attend Course 202 is that you have Graduated with an Elijah House certificate from Course 201 or Basic 1 School.
Course 202 Info
We hope that you will join us! Register today and spread the word!
FHM Schools 2019 Expect the Unexpected!
Then I will say to my soul, “Don’t be discouraged; don’t be disturbed, for I fully expect my Savior-God to break through for me. Then I’ll have plenty of reasons to praise him all over again.” Psalm 43:5 (TPT)
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- At the Door: Credit card, cash, or check. RSVP: Cell or Email below to reserve seats.
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- By Mail: Check payable to “Freedom House Ministry", addressed to 3217 S Scoville Ave, Berwyn, IL 60402
Trisha Frost – Founder and President of Shiloh Place Ministry
We are excited to be hosting Trisha Frost as one of our speakers at our 2017 graduation weekend in just a couple weeks! Learn more about her and the event:
Jack and Trisha Frost experienced many things through the 35 years of their relationship; some joyful and exciting, others disappointing and wounding. They lived, loved, and fought their way into finally finding their destiny. From their life journey to find the love they had so desperately been seeking came a revelation of unconditional agape love that brought healing to their family and also to the lives of many families around the world as Jack traveled and shared their story.
Now the message of agape continues in the life of Trisha and their children. Jack had for years encouraged Trisha to tell her side of the story, saying to the Shiloh Place staff that “there is a Niagara Falls of teaching in her, waiting to be released” but for a long time the circumstances of life and ministry have kept her travel schedule at a minimum.
Today is the hour of her release as she is one of many Shiloh Place teachers, charting our way through new challenges of life without Jack. Trisha’s life used to flow from feeling like an orphan, abandoned by her own loving father, and then by her husband; she felt she constantly had to take a back seat to Jack‘s other “loves.”
Now she can take you on the journey to find your place in the heart of God as she shares the breakthrough of her own revelation of love at the culmination of her pathway to healing, foremost as a favored child of God, then also as a wife and a mother. Trisha is ordained with The River Fellowship.
Learn more at: https://shilohplace.org/
about/our-people/
Hear Trisha speak at our 2017 graduation weekend -- June 16th & 17th -- Register and purchase tickets today.
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