Dear Friends of Vision Forum,
If you are a father who desires a close relationship with your son, and a meaningful multi-generational vision, may I recommend that you consider attending the Father and Son Retreat sponsored by Scott Brown (who you may know as the Director of the National Center for Family Integrated Churches). This is sure to prove to be a phenomenally uplifting and fun time.
Blessings,
Doug Phillips
In Wake Forest North Carolina
October 8-10
A Father Son Retreat
Come and meet with other fathers and sons in a wonderful “Ponderosa” like outdoor setting with fishing lakes, canoeing, pasture land and hiking areas. We will spend the weekend helping fathers and sons understand the details of the powerful partnership that God has intended.
The Food will be personally cooked and served by the Brown Family, Dearest Friends and Church Family...
You will hear talks under the tent on topics like, Fathers and Sons and the Meaning of History, Courageous Fathers and Sons, Fathers and Sons Walking Together, Fathers Leading the Family to a Godward Life, Fathers and Sons Working Together, Growing to know and love your father, Fathers Securing Honor and Obedience in Sons, Recovering Male Leadership in the Home, Fathers Who Fill Their Homes With Hope.
There will be fishing, Canoe Races, Tug O War and lots of Fun on Saturday Afternoon. Now this is a camping retreat so come ready for manliness...
For more information and registration, go to the Trinity Baptist Church website. Or, you can call the registrar, Blair Brown at 919-556-0508 or email at missblairbrown@aol.com
Why a Conference Like This?
This conference is founded upon the principle that fathers and Sons can have a relationship made in heaven. Imagine a Son who delights to do the will of His Father and a Father who looks with pleasure upon His beloved Son and revels in enjoyment as He works alongside Him.
See How it is Possible
This weekend we will show you how this is possible. On the Brown Family Farm, you will enter into the world of fathers and sons bonding together for their lifetime of service for the glory of God.
Foundational to our approach is that a father needs to bring his son into a wholesome world and engage him in spiritual training. For our purposes, a father should enter into a boys world... the world of camping, canoeing, tug-o- war, fishing... the great outdoors!
The retreat is being held in a wonderful “Ponderosa” like outdoor setting with lakes, canoeing, pasture land and hiking areas. We will skin a deer, fish, gather around a campfire and look heavenward to the stars to drink in the majesty of God.
First Rate Theological Training
Fathers and Sons also need to experience top notch theological training - TOGETHER. When you blend the outdoor element with excellent theological training and you have a perfect balance for the nurture of fathers and sons. The retreat will be content rich in the sense that you will receive a significant scriptural deposit in the area of Biblical manhood.
We will carefully and lavishly explain the flagship passages of scripture for fathers and sons. We will also be tracing, from Genesis to Revelation, God’s plan for fathers and sons. When you leave this retreat, you will have in your possession, an arsenal of Scriptural weaponry for your success as father and son. There will be no kiddie sermons.
We will present Christ is our perfect example of son ship, and God, the Father as the perfect example of fatherhood. This is why I would label this as a God focused conference.
The Relationships of Fathers and Sons are Massively Important
It is interesting that the Bible opens with the Father and the Son working together in creation. From Genesis chapter one to the end of the Old Testament, you see that the covenant is passed from father to son from generation to generation. The Old Testament ends with a prophesy of fathers turning their hearts toward their children and the children turning their hearts toward their fathers. Conclusion: The father son relationship is central to the God’s kingdom.
Who can measure the importance of fathers and sons turning toward one another? Here is one way: when a son rejects the teaching of his father, he plunges himself into many miseries for many years to come. (Ephesians 6:1-4) But if he honors and obeys his father, it will go well with him and he will enjoy long life.
A High Stakes Relationship
The stakes are high for sons who turn away from their fathers. The Bible makes it clear that they will never fully recover from the effects of their youthful disobedience. Think of the long term impact of a son turning to his father and a father turning toward His son. The blessing will roll for many generations. And, the world would be filled with the glory of God.
We trust that God will give us much repentance among fathers and sons. We trust that God would give us a powerful turning after the spirit of Elijah as recorded in the last phrases in the Old Testament.
What Will You Take Away?
When the retreat is over and you are on your way home, what can you expect to take away? You will understand the ultimate goal of all fatherhood and son-ship. You will know how to proceed as father and son. You will marvel at God’s wise plan. You will see how to pattern you life after the Father and His perfectly obedient Son. You will know more how to better disciple your sons and daughters for the Kingdom of God. You will be equipped to be a spiritual father to many.
Invitation
If you would like to come to the conference, please contact the registrar, Blair Brown at missblairbrown@aol.com by noon on Oct 6. Or call: 919-556-0508
If you are not able to join us at this conference, please pray that God would give us a harvest of repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ for His Glory in the church for many generations.