Sex is too important to leave it to culture and schools.
For 20 years, PEACE has been empowering families to positively disciple and mentor their children on difficult conversations such as sexuality.
Research has shown that the first thing a child learns becomes their filter for that situation. When it comes to making healthy sexual risk-avoidance choices (abstinence), children/youth make decisions based upon a consistent sexual risk avoidance (SRA) message that comes from multiple directions – parents, church and (ideally) the school.
Unfortunately, parents and the church say they feel ill-equipped, and when youth have questions they often do not feel they can ask parents or the church, so they look to secular society – media, internet porn, peers, and school as their authority.
So PEACE has created an event to help equip and empower parents and teens on the issue of sexual health from an informed faith perspective. The Stand Firm, Love True Conference is held in cities and towns across Canada, and offers some of the best Christian teaching and mentorship materials available.
Below you can learn about the two sessions offered at this conference event:
(see our calendar for upcoming events)
Building Family Connections – is an 8+ hour training program offered to parenting adults. It provides a toolkit to begin the lifelong conversation about healthy sexuality with their children & youth. Whether you are a parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent, guardian or a mentor to children/youth/young adults, this program is for you.
Content
- Biblical Vision of Sex
- Great Parenting Strategies
- Effective Communication Techniques
- Adolescent Development; physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual
- Teen Pregnancy – helping child avoid teen pregnancy
- Contraception
- HIV & Sexuality Transmitted Infections
- Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships
- Compare and contrast healthy and unhealthy relationships
- Effects of child abuse
- Sexual Risk Avoidance vs Sexual Risk Reduction
- Supporting abstinence in your family & community
Heritage Keepers is an 8 hour SRA training for youth (aged 11-18) that empowers youth to resist negative peer pressure and protect their goals and values by making healthy, medically accurate, biblically aligned sexual decisions.
Content
- Understand reproduction
- Understand sexually transmitted diseases
- Develop a strong sense of personal identity
- Set protective boundaries & Resist negative peer pressure
- Determine and protect personal values and goals
- Develop their refusal skills
- Make sexual decisions that are healthy, medically accurate & biblically aligned
Conference & BFC Facilitators
Phil Lees is a married father of three and grandfather of 5. During his 30 years as an educator (teacher and curriculum consultant) he became aware of the conflicting sex ed curriculum and the need for parents to be the primary educators of the children on this important issue. To assist families, he founded PEACE Education Services and PEACE Global.
Dave Willweber is Senior Pastor of Mauka-Makai Ministries Hawaii and co-founder of PEACE Global/Hawaii. His passion is equipping parents to disciple their children and youth – especially on the biblical vision for sexuality.
Marguerite McLeod–Fleming is a married mother of two and a professional trainer. She became concerned about how sexuality was being taught to her children in school and began to engage her children in the discussion about sexual values and their relationship to their faith. Marguerite joined PEACE and is a certified BFC trainer.
HK Facilitators
Germaine Ransome speaks to youth in schools across the GTA. As a healthy relationships advocate (i.e. love, sex and dating relationships) and speaker, Germaine has a passion to see youth raise their personal standard on how they view marriage, dating, and godly sexuality. He teaches students to embrace the process of self-discovery and learning to love themselves first as a foundation. Germaine is excited to be part of the PEACE team that is bringing Heritage Keepers to Canada.
Christina Thé is a professional model, chef and youth advocate. Her heart is to encourage others to pursue their potential, overcome life challenges and learn about the importance of healthy relationships. With her life experience of overcoming relational hardships, she empowers others with the practical teaching of Heritage Keepers, a revolutionary abstinence–based sex education program.
Joel Witton has been the guest speaker for groups ranging from primary school to university. Joel’s heart is to educate and help prepare youth to overcome the challenges they face in their personal lives. One of the most important areas of preparation is in their sexuality, and understanding how to have healthy relationships.
Bring Stand Firm, Love True to your community!
You can bring this powerful conference to your church, parent group or organization! We’ll provide customized advertising materials to help you promote the event, and can offer the content in a weekend conference format or as part of a weekly series.
To learn more or to start planning a conference in your area, contact us at 905 869 6334 or email info@peaceontario.com
(see our calendar for upcoming events)