Student Ministries Pastor Nathan Kocurek interviews author Cynthia Yanof about her new book, Life is Messy. God is Good.
Conference Sessions
Parenting Conference Welcome
Pastor Dave Carl sets the tone for the 2024 Parenting Conference and explains the conference schedule.
Opening Keynote
Counselor, professor, and family physician Dr. Ekpedeme Wade presents the morning keynote address for Healthy Minds & Godly Hearts.
The GAP Year Experience and the Future of Discipling the Next Generation
Find out how a gap year program following high school can equip young adults to build a life of true success.
Teaching Generation Alpha a Biblical Worldview
Gain understanding about the challenges this generation faces, and hear strategies for teaching kids to view the world through the lens of God’s Word.
Parenting with Love & Logic for Preschoolers
Learn the time-tested techniques of the Love & Logic method that’ll help reduce conflict in your home and prepare you to guide your young child through their challenging emotions and behaviors.
Raising Confident Lifelong Learners
Discover how to raise lifelong learners by using daily moments as educational opportunities, all the while building your child’s confidence and problem-solving skills.
Enjoying the Marriage and Parenting Journey
See how God’s grace, key tools, and healthy perspectives on marriage can pave the path to enjoying unity, joy, and hope in parenting.
The Sex Talk
Explore the when, how, what, and where of having conversations with your kids about sex, integrating a biblical perspective of sexuality with researched methods for approaching today’s generation of children and youth.
Family Discipleship
Uncover a simple and approachable model of discipleship that’ll help you evaluate where your family is spiritually and decide what steps you can take to grow.
Raising Mentally Healthy Kids
Get informed and equipped to guide your kids as they face a culture saturated with mental health struggles.
Closing Keynote
Dr. Ekpedeme Wade closes out the conference with final remarks and a Q&A session.
Author
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As Associate Pastor of High School Ministry, Nathan Kocurek leads and disciples students in grades nine through twelve. Emerging from the depths of the late 1970s, Nathan spent his formative years under the influence of Hall & Oates, Duran Duran, and other notables while listening to KRBE in Houston on the clock radio beside his bed. Nathan was influenced to love Jesus by the example of his young single mom, and he grew up with a love for God but an incomplete understanding of discipleship. As a result, as a teenager, he indulged in a relentless and, at times, reckless pursuit of social and athletic achievements, seeking to assuage an innermost feeling of emptiness that he could not escape. Finally, by God’s grace, the Spirit of the Lord made it clear to him that none but Jesus could satisfy what he was lacking. The answer had been there all along. Later, Nathan married the girl of his dreams and they ran off to California, had two sons, and returned to Texas where they adopted their sweet daughter. Having served as a Student Minister at two previous churches over the past 19 years, Nathan and his wife, Marie, are now thrilled to follow thrilled to follow the calling of Christ at Stonebriar Community Church.
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