Ideas from Nebraska Network
- Healthy Sexuality sermon series (St. John-Battle Creek)
- Using Passport to Purity by Dennis and Barbara Rainey, available from Family Life at
www.familylife.com
- Human Sexuality and Family Issues incorporated into Confirmation instruction
(Immanuel-Tilden)
Ideas from Ohio Network
- Having Ben and Jennifer Freudenburg come in to talk with parents about how to talk to
their kids about sex (Royal Redeemer - North Royalton, OH)
- Intro to Human Sexuality Material for parents of children (St. Mark’s - Milford, OH)
Ideas from North Wisconsin Network
- Using Pam Stenzel’s videos on Human Sexuality and invited Hope Pregnancy Center
speakers to talk with parents and their teens. (Zion – Aniwa)
- Conducting a book study of “Sex Over 50” (Zion – Aniwa)
- Showed Pam Stenzel’s “Sex Still has a Price Tag” DVD to our Confirmation students and
parents (at least the parents who came). Also sent home follow-up questions for all the
parents. (Trinity – Ironwood, MI – Wisconsin Network)
- A long discussion has begun among young married couples and families about sex
education for their children. (Colby – Ironwood)
- Conducted “Relationship Training” with Confirmation students (Trinity – Athens, WI)
- St. Luke’s began doing Purity Retreats for their 7th grade youth in 2006 in response to
concerns of sexual activity that was reported by some of their youth. They use the
materials “Sex as God’s Gift” by Mary Ronan, RN. The retreat is from Friday evening
through Saturday early afternoon and includes six DVD sessions and one speaker. The
speaker is often the most impactful session of the retreat as they have a mom from the
congregation share about her experience as a teen mother. In 2010, St. Luke’s chose to
purchase the Concordia Publishing House "Learn About Sex" books for each family
participating in the 7th grade Purity Retreats – the “How to Talk Confidently with Your
Child about Sex” book for parents and the “Sex and the New You” book for each youth.
They added a parent discussion session at the beginning of the retreat. Pastor Tom met
with the parents in a separate room to introduce the Concordia Publishing House books to
the parents and show them some of the DVD material that the youth would be seeing
during the retreat. They also used some segments from Mark Gungor and Pam Stenzel’s
materials from “Sex, Dating, and Relating” in addition to the “Sex as God’s Gift”
materials. (St. Luke’s – Wisconsin Rapids, WI)
- Offered a three session Human Sexuality class for parents during our Sunday morning
Adult Education hour in 2010 to present the learning event materials. Three families
attended and we feel this is a good start. We plan to offer it again in the future. (St.
Luke’s – Wisconsin Rapids, WI)
- Attempted to have the Concordia Sex Education series added to our church library. This
had met with some resistance from the library committee. We are writing up a resolution
to present to them to try again to get the series in the library. Until that time, they are
available in the DCE’s office. (St. Luke’s – Wisconsin Rapids, WI)
- “Talking with your kids about sex” class (Immanuel – Wisconsin Rapids, WI)
Ideas from Michigan #2 Network
- Sex education night for parents to help talk about sex with children (Our Savior Lutheran
- Lansing, MI)
- "Tweaked" our sex education program at the school to reflect the FFPN training (Our
Savior Lutheran - Lansing, MI)
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