Workshops for Families

1) Prayer That Changes the Heart: A Simple Rule for Real Life

Description:
Prayer is not only words—it is communion with God that heals the heart. This workshop offers a practical, realistic prayer rule rooted in the Agpeya, Psalms, and the Jesus Prayer, and helps us fight distraction and grow in repentance and peace.

Families – 3 takeaways

Goal: Build a family prayer rule (5–10 minutes daily), how to pray with kids, repentance as a family culture.

• Build a family prayer rule that is short, consistent, and joyful.

• Teach children repentance naturally: “we say sorry, we forgive, we start again.”

• Create a prayer-friendly home: icons corner, quiet minutes, Scripture/Psalm habit.

2) Divine Liturgy as a Way of Life: From the Altar to the Street

Description:
The Divine Liturgy forms our mind, purifies our heart, and teaches us how to live. This workshop helps us participate with understanding, prepare well through repentance and confession, and carry the Eucharistic life into our homes, schools, and work.

Families – 3 takeaways

Goal: Preparing together for Liturgy/Communion, confession rhythm, living Eucharistically at home (forgiveness, generosity).

• A simple family plan for Sunday: Saturday preparation, early arrival, attention, reverence.

• A healthy rhythm for confession and Communion preparation as a household.

• Living “Eucharistically” at home: forgiveness, service, generosity, gratitude.

3) The Home as a Little Church: Marriage, Parenting, and Peace

Description:
God calls the Christian home to be a place of love, forgiveness, and holiness. This workshop strengthens marriage and parenting with a Coptic Orthodox spirit—communication, repentance, raising children in faith, and building a home that reflects Christ.

Families – 3 takeaways

Goal: Communication skills, forgiveness, discipline with love, spiritual leadership of parents, “home as a little church.”

• Communication that heals: listening, gentleness, apologizing, and resolving conflict biblically.

• Parenting with both love and boundaries: discipline without anger, consistency without harshness.

• Make the home a “little church”: prayer rhythm, blessing, spiritual conversations, forgiveness culture.

4) Living Orthodoxy in a Digital Age: Holiness, Purity, Peace, and Wisdom with Screens

Description:
Our phones can bless us or drain us. This workshop equips the Church to live Orthodox life in a digital world: guarding the heart, protecting purity, overcoming anxiety and comparison, and setting practical boundaries that lead to freedom—not guilt.

Families – 3 takeaways

Goal: Screen rules, protecting innocence, how to react to failures with healing not shame, creating a “digital rule of life.”

• A clear home plan: screen rules, devices in public spaces, bed-time boundaries, and shared accountability.

• Protecting innocence with wisdom: how to respond to exposure without shame—healing and guidance.

• Replace, not only remove: family activities, prayer, service, and real relationships.