Fan the Flame Date Nite - April 27, 2006

April’s Fan The Flame was held in the beautiful banquet facility of Shady Maple in East Earl, PA. It was our second visit to this popular venue.

Forty-one couples enjoyed a delicious buffet dinner of roast Angus and broasted chicken, fresh vegetables, salad bar, and cherry or blueberry pie ala-mode.

Couples enjoyed a challenging table mixer built around the acrostic of the word integrity. "Integrity" was our theme of the evening. Relationships are built on honesty and integrity. Dr. Bruce presented three reasons why couples lie to each other: fear, selfishness and pride. Chris Hiestand shared a testimony regarding his needing to come clean with the lord and his wife about things in his past. A movie clip from “Shall we Dance” highlighted how lying to a spouse can be just as traumatic as having an affair. We were challenged to learn how to speak the truth to one another in love from Ephesians 4:15.

Our Table discussion time asked couples what they believed the number one reason for lying to each other is. Our knee-to-knee nose-to-nose time centered on reasons why we may be afraid to tell one another the truth and how we can temper our reactions to truth to help each other remain truthful.

Kapp and Linda Brown ended our evening with a powerful drama illustrating the need for couples to forgive each other.

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