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Bring Mark Gregston to your city for a
"Dealing with Today's Teens" weekend seminar.

The Friday night and Saturday morning seminar provides the arena for Heartlight Co-Founder and Executive Director Mark Gregston to share his insight, wisdom, and humor, while helping families deal with various issues having to do with parenting struggling teens. This seminar presentation gives valuable insight to families preparing for or already in the difficult teen years.

Fall/Winter Seminar Schedule (2007/2008)

Aug 24-26 - Marrable Hill Chapel, El Dorado, Arkansas
September 21-23 - Grace Community, Tyler, Texas
September 7-8 - First United Methodist Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma
October 19-20 - Emmanuel Baptist Church, El Dorado, Arkansas
October 26-28 - First Baptist Church, Abilene, Texas
November 2-4 - Burnt Hickory Church of Christ, Marietta, Georgia
February 1-3 - Seacoast Church, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Some of the seminar topics include:

  • Understanding the World of a Struggling Teen
  • Preparing My Pre-Teen for the Teen Years
  • A Teen's Search for Security and Significance
  • Help, My Teen's Out of Control!
  • "My Child, My Family, and Myself are Falling Apart"
  • A Teen's Need for Relationships During Crisis
  • Creating an Arena for Relationships
  • The Damage Done by Performance-Based Relationships
  • Immaturity that Requires Boundaries, Defiance that Demands Consequences
  • Determining Needs & the Cycle of Meeting Needs
  • My Child's Relational Style and Why They Appear the Way They Do
  • The Purpose of Pain in My Child's Life
  • Setting Boundaries During a Crisis
  • The Impact Loss on My Child, and How to fill the Empty Spots in their Life
  • Having the Right Expectations for My Adolescent
  • Developing a Belief System & Rules at Home that Help Establish Peace
  • Giving Responsibility and Developing Maturity
  • Encouraging My Child to be in Control of His/Her Life
  • Issues of Adoption, Death, Divorce & Abuse
  • What to Do when Everything is Failing, and My Child Can No Longer Be at Home

Want to host a Seminar?  Contact Amanda Childress at 903.668.2173 (extension 15).

Seminar Attendee Testimonials

Your candor and the fact that you were so real made us truly appreciate your presentation. Thanks for your honesty and your genuine nature. You gave people principles and truths they can stand on and put to work right away.”
Youth Minister, National EPC Youth Worker’s Conference

“I heard nothing but good things about the weekend we had with you at our church. I look forward to having you return.”
Parent, Greenville, North Carolina

“We are truly grateful to Mark for speaking at our church. We hope our paths will cross again. Irenaeus, one of those old dry and dusty church fathers in the second century said, ‘The glory of God is a person fully alive.’ Mark’s presentation of himself and his desire demonstrated exactly that.”
Pastor, Jackson, Mississippi

“Mark and Jan Gregston showed us how to take off the masks we put on with relationships - not just with kids, but with each other. They gave helpful insights on the relationships we have and don’t have with our children, and some useful tools in having a close relationship with our kids...”
Youth Minister, Augoura Hills, California

“Mark has a relational speaking style that really connected with our church body. His instant rapport with our congregation allowed the principles he spoke about to fall on an accepting and teachable audience,”
Parent, Nashville, Tennessee

“Prom my position as a pastor, Mark’s usage of faith stalwarts like Philip Yancey and CS. Lewis is a credit to his individual faith walk as well as his adaptation of that faith into practice.”
Pastor, Tupelo, Mississippi

“While speaking at our retreat, Mark truly impacted all of us. Those in ministry always say. ‘Ministry is relationships.’ Mark taught us what that really means.”
Youth Pastor, Detroit, Michigan

“Mark Gregston truly impacted the lives of our parents and youth leaders. His unique ability to connect with parents who are frustrated and defeated is truly a gift. Mark has his hand on the pulse of this generation of young people and offers Biblical insight, Godly counsel and practical steps to help parents and leaders capture the hearts of young people. Families have been healed and lives have been changed because of his faithful witness and testimony. Mark is the real deal and will give you, a new perspective when it comes to parenthood.”
Senior Pastor, Dallas, Texas

“Mark connected with parents right where they were. Every attendee knew that Mark could relate to what they were going through. His willingness to spend personal time with people, addressing their specific situations, was a real blessing.”
Marriage and Family Pastor, Wheaton, Illinois

“Dealing With Struggling Teens helped our parents and our ministry staff to better understand the culture and world that our teenagers live in. it also helped us to better understand the pressures that teenagers face, some of the thinking that goes on in their minds, and the reasons they act out like they do. The conference helped our parents to better communicate with their child, and helped us to understand why even some of our young twenties are responding to life the way they do, Parents of children of all ages (from 3 to 73) could benefit from the conference in dealing with their child. The weekend was a great conference and much needed in our families’ lives.”
Minister to Students, Palestine, Texas

See also the recorded video seminar (DVD) product for personal viewing:

DWST RECORDED SEMINAR



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Heartlight is a Christian boarding school with a therapeutic counseling focus for helping troubled teens.