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Welcome to Cornerstone where you'll find Caring, Professional Help for your Marriage- Christian Marriage Counseling, Retreats, Workshops, Seminars, Intensives, Coaching and more...

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If your marriage is struggling and you feel like all hope is gone, you've come to the right place. The pain of divorce impacts a family deeply, and affects generations to come, but the good news is there is HELP and there is HOPE...

A New Beginning, Marriage Renewal Retreat

A Christian Marriage Retreat with a Proven Record of Restoring 4 of 5 marriages

July 23-25, 2010 August 14-16, 2010 Sept 10-12, 2010

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Colorado Springs, Colorado Houston, Texas

Hilton Garden Inn The Castle at Glen Eyrie Homewood Suites by Hilton

Why the Traditional "hour-a-week" counseling approach is Ineffective for Struggling Marriages...

If you had a serious medical condition and needed surgery, would your doctor do the surgery "an hour a week" for 21 weeks? Of course not - and that's why Cornerstone's intensive, marriage counseling retreat is so effective. It allows for couples needing urgent care to heal their relationship over a 3-day, 21-hour marriage healing intensive weekend. Once this "major surgery" has been accomplished, couples are able to achieve a thorough and speedier recovery in their marriage.

Trying to heal a marriage in 1-hour, weekly counseling sessions is ineffective because most issues can't be resolved in a 1-hour counseling session. In a 1-hour session, often by the time the couple gets to the root of an issue--it's time to end the session. Consequently, couples often end up just opening up old wounds and then leaving discouraged, feeling more hopeless than before. Yet, over 84% of couples who come to our Marriage Renewal Retreats and seminars leave re-committed to their marriage,'' including even those where there's been infidelity and/or separation.

What Is A New Beginning, Marriage Renewal Weekend?

Cornerstone's highly acclaimed marriage counseling retreat consists of a 3-day, 2-night, marriage intensive weekend, along with an optional series of 4 post-weekend, in-home study sessions, and optional private tele-coaching sessions. The program, developed through over 17 years of experience in working with marriages in crisis, offers an effective proven alternative to traditional marriage counseling.

Our team of experienced counselors walks couples through guided exercises that reveal the hidden barriers that are keeping their marriage from thriving, and guides them in taking the steps to heal their relationship and rebuild a healthy, more satisfying marriage.

The program involves identification of relational issues, and working a step-by-step process for resolving these issues through in-depth, private, guided exercises. You and your spouse will be challenged and empowered to take an honest look at yourself and your marriage, deal with relevant issues, heal hurts, put the past behind, and rediscover the experience of love in your marriage.

Not Group

Counseling

Our Marriage Renewal Weekend is not group counseling and does not involve you disclosing private information about your marital issues to other couples in a group setting.

Neither is it just an inspirational seminar, nor a bunch of marriage lectures you sit thru, take a lot of notes, and then go home and try to do the work of repairing your relationship on your own.

Unlike many other marriage intensive programs today that utilize various group counseling techniques, our proven program involves neither group dynamics, group disclosures, nor group discussions. Nobody is asked to share anything about their problems in a group.

A Word From Marriage Expert Dennis Rainey, President, FamilyLife

"This ministry has already made a difference in the lives of thousands of couples. Their work translates

into lives that have been changed, marriages saved, and families strengthened. That's why it's with

complete pleasure thatI wholeheartedly recommend Cornerstone Marriage & Family Ministries."

Roy & Sue Milam

CO-Founders & Directors

Perhaps you've tried and still not found answers? Don't give up hope. We want to assure you- here at Cornerstone you'll find a caring, distinctively Christian alternative to traditional marriage counseling. You'll find professional care and practical help that's Biblical, proven and effective.

God is able and wants to restore your marriage. We constantly see Him performing miracles...healing relationships and restoring marriages through our Marriage Renewal Seminars, Workshops and Retreats all the time.

Roy & Sue Milam... A husband-and-wife team, married for 21 years, co-founders of Cornerstone have served together as co-directors of the ministry for 17 years, Roy & Sue share a passion for saving marriages, and for helping couples build strong marriages.

    Roy Milam, MA, Marriage and Family Pastoral Counselor, Marriage Educator, Christian Author, Speaker, Radio & Television Talk Show Guest, and President of Cornerstone, is an Ordained Minister with over 25 years of combined pastoral ministry, marriage coaching, marriage counseling, and training and development experience.

    With a passion for helping couples overcome the challenges that adversely affect their marriages, whether it's infidelity issues, unresolved conflict, or the stress and pressures of life, he works with couples to help them remove barriers to freedom and joy in their marriage.

     Author of The Truth About Divorce,"Ten Steps to Revitalize Your Marriage ," and "Establishing A Vision for Your Marriage & Family,"Roy Milam has taught seminars throughout the U.S. helping thousands of people reach their God-given potential in their marriages.

In our Marriage Retreats, Seminars and Workshops, over 84% of couples

reconcile their relationship and recommit to their marriage.

By the end of the weekend in our marriage conferences, most of the couples have resolved the hurts and issues causing their pain. Once their relationships are reconciled, barriers are removed, and in most cases affection is restored. Then couples are equipped with the skills, tools and know-how to create and sustain a healthy marriage.

Cornerstone 's marriage counseling retreats utilize a biblical, experiential, guided approach that is the most powerful format for restoring marriages we have ever seen. A process, developed through over 17 years of experience helping couples in crisis who feel stuck and hopeless, our program has proven effective in restoring 4 of 5 marriages, helping thoudsands of couples overcome their relationship barriers and experience the kind of caring, intimate marriage they long for. In a survey of our Marriage Counseling Retreats, workshops and seminars, over 80% of participants reported they recommitted to their marriages.

The Determining Factor in the Outcome of Your Marriage

Experience shows that having anger, resentment, feelings of apathy toward your spouse, or even feeling hopeless about your situation is not the determining factor in the outcome of your marriage. When you come to "A New Beginning," Marriage Counseling Retreat with a willing spirit and engage in the process, you can expect a miracle, because that's what we see most often!

"Unless the Lord Builds The House, They Labor In Vain Who Build It"

Psalm 127:1

"We had come to a point in our marriage and were just leading separate lives. At the Marriage Retreat we found answers. We were able to deal with issues in a non-threatening way without all the strife. We resolved issues that had been unsolvable for us for years. We forgave each other. Amazingly today our feelings of affection for each other are stronger than they've been in years. We have a new sense of love and appreciation. We are back on the path and we actually enjoy being with each other again.”

Accountant, Married 17 years, Houston Texas

(More Amazing Testiomies of Marriages Transformed Click Here)

How Effective Is Traditional Marriage Counseling?

The practice of marriage counseling is being studied to a great extent these days. In a recent Consumer Reports study of the effectiveness of psychotherapy, a reader survey gave lower marks to marriage counselors than other types of therapists. Some couples say they gained from marriage counseling while most say they received very little from it. Is it effective? Although some research studies have shown that marriage counseling is not as effective as was once thought, there is an alternative to marriage counseling that has proven highly effective to most marriages that need help.

A Proven Alternative to Marriage Counseling

God created us and gave us His design and principles for building a successful, healthy marriage that is loving, intimate and caring. When you're up against seemingly insurmountable problems, a Christian marriage counseling retreat can help you understand and apply Biblical principles and solutions to your problems. Cornerstone's Marriage Counseling Retreat is a proven, highly effective alternative to traditional marriage counseling that has helped thousands of couples discover the blessing of an intimate, caring marriage. With God, "nothing is impossible" and your marriage can be transformed into a healthy relationship.

Register Now for an upcoming Christian Marriage Counseling Retreat.

If you're reluctant to consider a Christian marriage counseling retreat...

Take heart, you're not alone. When it feels like you can't see the forest for the trees, maybe it's a good time to seek an outside perspective. A Christian marriage counseling retreat may be helpful for what you're facing. Rest assured, Cornerstone's Christian Marriage Counseling Retreat isn't the stereotypical picture of you lying on a couch talking about your childhood, and how you were potty-trained. It's not some group version of Psycho-analysis.

Cornerstone's Christian marriage counseling retreat utilizes biblically-based teaching and skills training, along with private experiential learning exercises, prayer, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and the application of Biblical truth to address problem areas related to behavior, relationships, or emotional conflict. There is a big difference between marriage counseling and a Christian marriage counseling retreat.

What Does a Christian Marriage Retreat Address, and How Can It Help Us?

Cornerstone Marriage Renewal Retreats, Seminars and Workshops are about Restoring

Love, Saving Your Marriage, Keeping Your Family Together, and Giving Your Children a

Brighter Future

Biblicallly-Based Marriage Counseling- Retreats - Seminars - Workshops - Conferences

Cornerstone is a Christian marriage counseling ministry in Houston, Texas serving clients in the surrounding areas, including Katy, Texas, Spring, Humble, Kingwood, Sugarland, League City, Friendswood and The Woodlands. Cornerstone focuses on saving and strengthening marriages by providing distinctively Biblical, Christian marriage counseling retreats, seminars, workshops, and practical Christian marriage help.

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Cornerstone Marriage & Family Ministries

15427 Woodland Orchard Lane, Houston, Texas 77433

info@MarriageMinistry.org

(281) 304-1500

To schedule a retreat in your area email us: info@marriageministry.org

Houston - Dallas - Ft Worth - Austin - San Antonio - Oklahoma City - Tulsa - New Orleans - San Antonio - Atlanta -

-Nashville - Denver - St Louis - Kansas City - Philadelphia

Dallas - Ft Worth

7800 Dulles Drive, Irving, Texas 75063

Oklahoma City

801 S. Meridian

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73108

San Antonio

15806 IH -10 West

San Antonio, Texas 78249

Colorado Springs, Colorado

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

12 AM - A New Beginning, Marriage Renewal Retreat

A Weekend to Revitalize Your Relationship and Make It Loving Again.

Your marriage can be saved! We know it can! Regardless of where you are now, or how you feel toward each other now (anger, resentment, or even apathy) through a proven process that has worked with thousands of couples, this life-changing weekend can restore the feelings of love you once had and give you a fresh start.

Whether you're facing significant challenges in your marriage, or your marriage just needs a tune-up, when you experience "A New Beginning," Marriage Renewal Weekend you'll discover more love than you ever dreamed possible.

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" It helped our marriage greatly. It showed us how to work through tough issues without all the bickering and defensiveness" Accountant, Dallas, TX Married 17 years

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For more Information Call 281-304-1500 or Email: info@marriageministry.org ----------------

"Since attending six months ago our marriage has improved tremendously. The profound insight you gave us of focusing on our own selves and the marriage, rather than on each other and all our "problems" was freeing and gave us the perspective we needed to put the past behind and work out many of our seemingly insurmountable problems" Nurse, Married 11 years

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"We attended "A New Beginning" retreat...and we couldn't be happier now! We are more in love than we ever have been." Marketing Manager, Married 8 years

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"He asked me to marry him again...we renewed our vows on April 5th. What a blessing this has been to our marriage and to our children! Thank you!" Stay-at-home mom, Married 9 years

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Any marriage, regardless of how bad it may seem, can be saved! You may THINK your marriage is impossible…beyond repair. But it isn’t. We know it isn’t. We’ve helped thousands of couples to not only save their marriage, but both spouses to fall deeply in love again.

It doesn’t matter what your feelings are about each other right now. You may feel angry, bitter, or even hatred or no feelings at all. Our experience with thousands of couples in crisis, proves that there is a way—a proven process—that will turn your marriage around, stop the hurt, and rekindle the love that you had for each other in the beginning.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL (281)304-1500 or Email: info@marriageministry.org

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"What I liked best was learning how to talk through problem areas without all the angry upsets and arguments"

Engineer, San Antonio, TX Married 9 years

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"We almost didn’t make it...At one point on the drive down, the communication got so bad, I got out of the car and started walking away. And I came…thinking “This is our last chance, if it doesn’t work, I give up, I’m done.” Me, my husband, and my marriage were set on a different course. We found answers and set us free from core issues that were ruining our marriage."

Singer/Entertainer, Atlanta, GA, married 13 years,

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"I had decided that I would just live silently unhappy, because I know divorce is not what I promised. My husband and I no longer communicated respectfully and I only came because I figured I have to do my part before I can say it just won’t work. Thanks to the process of the weekend, I now have a happy home..."

Real Estate Agent, married 16 years

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The retreat is not conducted in a "group counseling" format nor do we ask anyone to share about their problems in the group setting. Our program utilizes a guided, nore private, experiential approach, consisting of training modules designed to walk you and your spouse through a healing process, while equipping you with effective communication tools designed to empower you and your spouse to communicate step-by-step through sensitive and difficult issues, and resolve your conflicts successfully.

Couple breakout sessions provide for individual and couple time for exercises including intra-personal and relationship assessment, healing hurts, needs exploration, processing of issues, and conflict resolution. Our team of trained counselors are there to guide and support you, and work with you privately in the specific areas you need help with.

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