There are so many opportunities and so many challenges that come at you and your family. There’s the good stuff like getting married, having your first child or launching your kids off to college. And there’s the not so good stuff like trying to find time to keep your marriage fresh, or struggling to communicate with your teenager, or longing to rediscover each other in the empty nest season. How do you keep your bearings? How do you know if you’re headed in the right direction? What essential tools will help you on the journey? How do you and your family follow Jesus in your everyday life?

The True North Family Weekend is designed to help you ask these significant questions. If you are a family with many kids, or a single parent family, or a family with a newborn or even a family who is making plans to have kids in the future, this event is for you. This weekend is full of events designed to give you inspiration and practical skills for staying the course and living the family life you want. There is an event for everyone – A Friday men’s breakfast, A Friday women’s lunch, a Friday evening student concert, and the parent sessions and seminars on Saturday.

Dr. Greg Smalley will be our featured speaker. Dr. Smalley is the Director of Marriage Ministries for the Center for Relationship Enrichment and an assistant professor of marriage and family studies at John Brown University. Dr. Smalley leads marriage seminars around the world and helps train pastors, professionals and lay leaders how to help and equip married and premarital couples. Dr. Smalley has appeared on both television and radio programs, including Focus on the Family and Hour of Power. He is the author or co-author of 10 books including The Wholehearted Marriage (due summer of 09). Greg and his wife, Erin, along with their two daughters, Taylor and Maddy, and son, Garrison live in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.

See his full bio here.