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Intentional Fathers – Week 11 – Starting With The End In Mind

Using the question "what if you had one year to live?", fathers explore how writing a personal eulogy can serve as a plumb line — filtering daily choices and keeping life oriented toward an eternal, God-centered story.

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Intentional Fathers Week 10 – Family On a Mission Part 2 – Explore Big Dreams

Fathers are challenged to move from drifting to focused by asking what big vision they want to pursue — and to start dreaming with their spouses about the story they want their family to live.

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Intentional Fathers Week 9 – Becoming a Family on a Mission (Part 1) – Writing a Story you want to live in.

A guest speaker challenges fathers to step outside the daily whirlwind, name the narrative void it creates, and craft a family story rooted in God's Kingdom rather than drifting by default.

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Intentional Father’s Week 8 – Fostering Independence in Our Children – “Old Enough”

Fathers discuss the growing trend of overprotection and explore practical ways to give children age-appropriate responsibility, embrace failure as a teacher, and use the Model-Assist-Watch-Learn coaching approach.

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Intentional Fathers – Week 7 – Compassionate (Non-Violent) Communication

The group works through a four-step NVC process — observe, feel, need, request — and explores how slowing down, modeling emotional awareness, and prayer helps children develop genuine self-control.

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Intentional Fathers Week 6 – Intentional Discipling

A father shares a practical plan for discipling his kids through daily rhythms — scripture at dinner, bedtime questions, one-on-one time, and curated Christian books — with ideas from the whole group.

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Intentional Fathers Week 5 – Non-Violent Conflict

A father introduces a storytelling framework for navigating conflict: recognizing that everyone wants to be known and has a purpose, then approaching disagreements with empathy, vulnerability, and an eternal perspective.

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Intentional Fathers Week 4: Putting It Into Practice-Blessing

Fathers dig into what it means to bless your children — drawing on Genesis, Deuteronomy, and James to show that blessing is a life-giving impartation of faith, spoken by fathers over their kids.

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Intentional Fathers – Week 3 “To be a father you must first be a son”

Drawing on the Great Commandment and Jesus's New Command, the group explores how receiving God's love as sons is the prerequisite for giving that love as fathers — and what it looks like to practice that daily.

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Intentional Fathers – Week 2 – “You Have What It Takes”

Fathers brainstorm what their children most need — encouragement, trust, presence, and the message "you have what it takes" — and reflect on knowing each child as the foundation of fathering.

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