Friday mornings from 6:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.
Christ Church Lake Forest
100 North Waukegan Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045
(corner of Route 60 and IL-43)

Men's Fraternity will resume in the Fall 2008
First Half: September 19 - November 21
Second Half: January 16 - March 6
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Authentic Manhood: Winning at Work & Home

Winning at Work and Home, a 16-session study, focuses on the two areas that are central to a man's life: career and family. It will begin to build the walls of manhood through study dealing with a man's chief responsibilities. It explores how a man can enjoy and engage his work and how he can relate to a woman in a whole new way.
Topics include:

• What Men Need to Know About Women
• Grasping Life’s Universal Success Principle
• Improving Your Sex Life
• Increasing Your Personal Power at Work
• Four Keys to Maximum Parenting
• Wise Moves With Money in Your Marriage
• Connecting With the Heart of Your Wife
• The Best Reasons to Work
• Bringing Out the Best in Your Child
• Strengthening Communication With the Woman You Love
• A New View of Work
• Resolving Conflict and Other Relational “Static”
• A Lifetime Game Plan for Raising Sons and Daughters
• Love Languages That Connect You & Your Wife
• Discovering Personality Distinctives for Yourself & Your Family
• Best Practices of Successful Men
• Developing Long-term Winning Strategies at Work & at Home

OPEN TO ALL MEN—AGE 20 AND OVER

HISTORY AND OVERVIEW OF MEN'S FRATERNITY
Excerpts from the Men’s Fraternity website www.mensfraternity.com
WHAT IS MEN’S FRATERNITY?
Men’s Fraternity is a series of three one-year-long studies, beginning with The Quest for Authentic Manhood, followed by Authentic Manhood: Winning at Work and Home, and concluding with The Great Adventure series. More than just a rally or a Bible study, Men’s Fraternity provides men with an encouraging process that teaches them how to live lives of authentic manhood as modeled by Jesus Christ and directed by the Word of God.

Men’s Fraternity was designed to help men come together and strengthen each other through weekly sessions that combine biblical teaching and small group interaction.

These time-tested resources have been used all over the world to equip men to make their pursuit of noble manhood a lifelong priority. Church leaders and lay members are using the series to energize the men of their church and to connect with men in the community. Many men also use the series in their own personal pursuit of authentic manhood.

THE ORIGIN
Men’s Fraternity was created by Robert Lewis, pastor-at-large of Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock, Arkansas and author of Raising a Modern Day Knight. It began in 1990 with 30 participants as Robert strived to connect with and challenge the men of his church. Over the years it has developed into a series of studies designed to engage the heart as well as the mind, stripping away the myths of manhood, and focusing on how each individual can be transformed into a true man of God. Now, more than 1,400 men attend Fellowship Bible Church’s weekly Men’s Fraternity meetings on Wednesdays at 6:00 a.m.

THE FORMAT
The format is simple: Men come together for weekly 45-minute teaching sessions (Mike Woodruff will do the teaching at Christ Church), followed by 30 minutes of discussion group interaction in an environment where men are free to talk openly and confidentially about what they heard and express mutual support for one another.

THE TRUE POWER
The true power of Men’s Fraternity lies in bringing men together on common ground to learn together and listen to each other. Bonds of true God-centered friendships are formed as men encourage each other week- by-week to more fully embrace a godly view of manhood.