Faith Community Institute

PG 206 Your Dependents with Special Needs: Making Their Future More Secure

Schedule: 2 Weeks, Apr. 3 & 10
Fees: None
Description: As the direction of Medicaid and Social Security become difficult to predict, it has become critically important for parents to plan for the future of their child or dependent with special needs. This workshop covers legal issues, including wills, special needs trusts, & guardianship. Financial issues, such as special needs trust funding, Medicaid, Medicaid Waivers and Social Security are also discussed. Family issues discussed will include creating a Letter of Intent and family involvement.
Homework: None
Instructor: Gordon F. Homes. Gordon is the Sr. Financial Services Executive and Special Needs Financial Planner for the MetLife Center for Special Needs Planning.

PG 225 “Boomer”-cation

Schedule: 6 Weeks, Mar. 6 – Apr. 10
Fees: None
Description: How will you define “Independence”?  Is it being financially sound enough to choose where and how you live?  Are you prepared for “In-home” care? Have you made arrangements to ensure your children can avoid dealing with probate and burial issues?  Will your home be ready to allow for your changing health needs? Learn the answers to all the above questions with advice and tips from local business owners in the Lafayette area.
Homework: None
Instructors: Five local businesses have come together to provide crucial advice on how to remain a kingdom builder in your “Golden Years”.  Facilitator: Susan Benedict CKD, CAPS.

• Susan Benedict CKD, CAPS is owner of Design Alternatives, a Lafayette centered Kitchen and Bath Design & Consulting firm.  Susan's driving pation is to help home owner's make choices for their homes that make great financial, functional and aestetically pleasing sense and cents.  Susan will offer ideas and tips to make your home more conducive to remain there throughout you or your loved one's lifetime, that will be flexibe with changing health-care needs. She is Lafayette's only Certified Kitchen Designer and an "Aging in Place" Specialist.
• Elliot Hartje is a Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Elliot will take an in-depth look at the steps necessary to create a Rising Income, teach you more about Tax-Free Investing and walk you through a Risk Audit.  Elliot will take a step by step approach to help you take the fear out of the "un-known'', helping you protect your finances now and through-out your "Golden-years".
• Martha Kormanis is the Director of PreArrangements and Community Outreach for Hippensteel Funeral Home. She serves on steering committees thru the Area IV Agency on Aging including Senior Games and the Alzheimer's  Care Coalition. Martha can help take some of the fear out the  inevitable, and replaces it with a peace of mind.
• Traci Goudy is a Registered Nurse and the Founder and President of Homecare By Design, Greater Lafayette’s 2011 Small Business of the Year and 2012 Reader’s Choice Award Winner for Area’s Best Home Care Agency. Homecare By Design is considered the “Go-To-Agency” that the Greater Lafayette Community counts on when they need help at home.
• Edward B. Wallis now practices law in the Lafayette, Indiana area where he engages in a general practice of law with primary emphasis on business law, corporate law, estate planning and administration, real estate, and tax planning and preparation. After ten years of civil litigation practice, Mr. Wallis joined The Lafayette Life Insurance Company as its corporate counsel and chief legal officer.  He was also named a V.P., Senior V.P., Executive V.P. and President of The Lafayette Life.  Mr. Wallis has served on several not for profit Boards, including Chairman of the Greater Lafayette United Way, Chairman of the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, as well as Chairman of the United Way of Indiana.  He was also appointed by Indiana Governor Bayh as the first Chairman of the State’s Step Ahead program, and has served as President of Tippecanoe County Child Care, Inc for five years.

PG 252 Biblical Forgiveness

Schedule: 6 Weeks, Mar. 6 – Apr. 10
Fees: $2.25 Material Fee
Description: God created us for relationships (Gen 2:18).  First and foremost is our relationship with God.  Second most important is our relationships with one another (Matt 22:37).  There are over 60 references to our one another ministry to each other in the Bible.  Early in Genesis we see relationships fail: Adam and Eve were separated from God; Cain murdered Abel; and so on and so forth.  Yet God did not leave man without a solution to our relationship problems.  In His grace and mercy He provided repentance, forgiveness, and restitution to restore relationships to the Biblical model.  In this class on Biblical Forgiveness we will learn about this process in detail.
Homework: Week to week reading
Instructors(s): Mike Hines. Mike is deacon at Faith Church and a counselor with Faith Biblical Counseling ministries. Mike has a BA and MS from Purdue University.

BC 403 Lay Counseling Training Series 3

Schedule: 6 Weeks, Mar. 6 – Apr. 10
Fees: None
Description: This module focuses particularly on marriage counseling. Almost three out of every four counseling cases have something to do with marriage. During our six weeks you will be equipped to minister personally to some of the most common marital challenges. Below are the subjects we'll be studying,

Homework: Simple weekly assignments
Instructor: Rob Green, Dustin Folden, and Josh Greiner. Rob is the Pastor of Counseling and Seminary Ministries at Faith Church. Dustin is the Pastor of Discipleship & Extension Ministries at Faith Church. Josh is the soon-to-be Pastor of Faith West Community Ministries.

BC 404 Lay Counseling Training Series 4

Schedule: 6 Weeks, Apr. 17 – May 22
Fees: None
Description: This fourth module focuses particularly on counseling those who are having challenges in their parenting.
Homework: Simple weekly assignments
Instructor: Rob Green, Dustin Folden, and Josh Greiner. Rob is the Pastor of Counseling and Seminary Ministries at Faith Church. Dustin is the Pastor of Discipleship & Extension Ministries at Faith Church. Josh is the soon-to-be Pastor of Faith West Community Ministries.