Divorce Recovery Kit For Churches

EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR A DIVORCE RECOVERY MINISTRY

Starting Over DVD Kit
  • Provide the hope and healing that five thousand others have received
  • Be a source of healing in your community by reaching out beyond your church
  • Equip your church to offer a Christ centered lay-led divorce recovery ministry
  • 6 sessions on DVD
  • Facilitator training on DVD with training notes
  • Short and long promos and testimonial videos on DVD to promote your workshop
  • 5 participant booklets (can print more at your discretion)
  • 1 Leadership Guide (one per organization)
  • Initial phone consultation to launch your first workshop

About the Ministry Kit

The Ministry Kit provides the tools to offer an effective, ongoing ministry to those hurting from divorce, separation or a broken relationship.

This six-session Starting Over workshop combines a relevant message with small group discussion. Offering a Christian perspective, this proven relationship recovery program helps individuals practically process their loss and its impact on all areas of life.

The Starting Over Workshop Kit will help you to equip others to move forward with their lives during and after their struggle with the pain and disappointment of a relationship loss. Over the last twenty years, Starting Over has provided over five thousand people practical life-giving guidelines.

The workshop leads them through the grieving process to experience real hope and healing that lasts. The workbooks include an outline for note taking for each video session. The Leadership Guide curriculum also includes videos facilitator training, training notes and small group questions to help you to walk others through the healing process. Publicity materials are also part of the kit.

DESIGNED TO BE EFFECTIVELY LAY LED, EACH SESSION HELPS INDIVIDUALS PROCESS THE TURMOIL, SHOCK AND ADJUSTMENTS RESULTING FROM BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS

Workshop Topics

Week 1: Starting Over: Explores the myths about growth, healing and understanding your emotions.

Week 2: Understanding Your Identity: Examines “Who owns you?”

Week 3: Finding And Experiencing Forgiveness: Uncovers the need to forgive and to be forgiven.

Week 4: Letting Go Of The Past: Reveals how to cope with past relationships

Week 5: Thinking About New Relationships: Investigates loneliness, friendship and dating

Week 6: Assuming New Responsibilities: Imparts how to plan for yourself and your future.

Testimonials

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Tamara

"Starting Over gave me hope for the future and helped me heal from the past.​"
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Gary

"Starting Over helped me process my grief and showed me how to make better relationship choices now and in my future."
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Wade

"Starting Over gave me hope and direction at a time I was totally lost."
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Amy

"It was great to realize that many others are processing the same pain and struggles."

Endorsements

“Thousands have experienced hope and healing from the Starting Over Workshop. You can too. I highly recommend Mark’s proven resource for individuals, small groups, and churches.”
Ron L. Deal
Director, Blended Family Ministries, Family Life, President, Smart Stepfamilies and author of The Smart Stepfamily, Dating and the Single Parent
“In our journeys as flawed men and women, we are presented — under the umbrella of God’s grace — with countless challenges to “start over” in the face of brokenness. And few arenas of brokenness are more painful or puzzling than splintered or shattered relationships, which can quickly paralyze people in a prison of numbness and even despair. Through his “Starting Over” workshops, Mark Skalberg has done a masterful job of developing a tool in which people, standing on the threshold of decision regarding whether they will try to start over after a painful relationship, can taste both the grace and truth of God. Healing, hope and a renewed sense of redeemed purpose have been the result for thousands of people over the years who have gone through the workshop. It’s a resource I’ve seen God use significantly and I’m grateful more and more people are experiencing it.”
Matt Heard
Lead Pastor for Northland Church, Orlando, Florida and the Founder and Principal of THRIVE
“When I was six years old, my father left my mother, me and three siblings. That was over forty years ago. To this day, I can still remember bits and pieces of the pain, questions and uncertainty that we, and especially my mother faced, for the days ahead. How do you begin again? Honestly, my mother didn’t know. Countless people today, after coming through such an ordeal, don’t know the answer to that question. Fortunately, there is a way to begin again, and Starting Over provides the path. Thousands of men have discovered hope and deep healing by walking this path. You can too. It’s time to move forward, isn’t it?”
Wade Brown
Director, Rocky Mountain Director, PastorServe
“As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I see the pain and devastation that occurs in the lives of families as a result of divorce. Many times people find themselves feeling broken, flawed, and unusable. These individuals need to know that God is not done with them yet. He desires to redeem their pain and give them what they need to start again. Mark, and his “Starting Over” program offer this kind of hope and possibility to people.”
Dr. Barry Ham
Marriage and Family Therapist and author of God Understands Divorce and Unstuck.
“In a culture that downplays family and marriage, Mark has come in and provided a balm for those feeling the pain of brokenness – for adults and children alike, Starting Over is just the salve required.”
Don Pape
Vice President Trade Publishing, David C. Cook
“What could be better than seeing a person’s life rescued from the pit of despair and discouragement of a painful divorce to a place of hope and healing? “Starting Over” has been used to accomplish just that for thousands of people over two decades. This time-tested and proven workshop is now available in DVD form, and after seeing the impact it has had first-hand, I highly recommend it to individuals, small groups, and churches everywhere.”
PAUL ZIGAN
Equiping Pastor, Woodmen Valley Chapel, Colorado Springs, Co

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RECOVERY, DO YOU NEED IT?

Perhaps you’ve heard, “You’ll keep getting what you’ve been getting if you keep doing what you’ve been doing.” Well, none of us are exempt in making poor choices. We all make mistakes and have also been on the receiving side of someone else’s choices, but the big question is, now what?

GET HELP NOW! ‘TEN STEPS TO RECOVER FROM DIVORCE AND BREAK UP’
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We know that divorce is hard, we’ve been there. Dealing with divorce or break up is one of the hardest things in life. We 
know what it means to go through devastating relationship loss.
There is a way to move on, and we want to help you in your journey toward hope and healing. Download this powerful resource to begin your path of recovery.
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