Joy and Wayne Brown have led various family life enrichment retreats on the local, state and national levels. Their counseling experience, as well as the lessons they have learned during their thirty-seven years of marriage, enable them to present meaningful and helpful seminars, conferences and retreats. They were invited to be the keynote speakers for the “Fall Festival of Marriage” at Lifeway Christian Conference Center in 2000 and 2001.

Some of their most popular retreat topics include:

FROM THIS DAY FORTH

This retreat includes, How to Have a Happy Home; Celebrate Your Differences; How to Have a Good Fight; Sexual Intimacy in Marriage; From This Day Forth.

ROMANCE BY THE BOOK

This humorous study looks at the lives of couples from the Bible and relates their circumstances to modern marriages. The main focus of this conference is to rekindle romance in the marriages of the couples attending.

DATE NIGHT

Joy and Wayne developed a monthly “date night” for couples dealing with the issues that most often prove to be problematic in marriage.

TOOLS FOR BUILDING A STRONG FAMILY

Since its inception, Joy has been a speaker/trainer with the “Building Strong Families” program. This study is a practical, systematic plan of the five basic tools necessary for building a strong family.

PERSONALITY STUDY

This study of the four basic personality types aids in learning to recognize, understand, and value the differences in family members.