February 15th, 2012 
ryansmith 
FUSE Night Our next FUSE night is scheduled for March 4th from 5-7pm. Our FUSE night is designed to bring the whole family together for dinner and a game and then to break out into groups (MS, HS, Parents) for teaching and discussion. Please join us for this great night of fun, food, fellowship, and [...]
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No Comments » February 6th, 2012 ryansmith There is a free Iphone app out there that helps parents understand the effects of teen dating abuse. You can watch videos, study signs of abuse to look for in your teen, but my favorite feature is the “Digital Dating Abuse Simulator” that allows a parent to experience what a teen might go through who [...]
December 8th, 2010 ryansmith 
Our next FUSE Night at EPIC is January 2nd. Our FUSE Nights begin with a family dinner (the whole family invited) at 5:00 pm. We then do a game together and break up into groups afterwards (middle school, high school, parents). This month’s parent topic is, Family Values: An Introduction. We will be going through [...]
December 6th, 2010 ryansmith Below is the teaching outline for our December 2010 FUSE night. I had the wonderful privilege of talking to parents. Check out what we discussed. Top 5 things parents can do to help their teen(s) develop Godly relationships. #5. Don’t ASSUME Make sure your students have solid friendship and don’t just go by what they [...]
November 8th, 2010 ryansmith 
Our next FUSE Night at EPIC is December 5th. Our FUSE Nights begin with a family dinner (the whole family invited) at 5:00 pm. We then do a game together and break up into groups afterwards (middle school, high school, parents). This month’s parent topic is, Family Traditions: What traditions say about our families. Join [...]
November 8th, 2010 ryansmith Below is the outline for the parent portion of our FUSE night in November 2010. Establish Priorities by Focusing on Values As parents we are managers of our time, we structure our children’s time, and it just never seems like we have enough time. Many of us have wish lists and ideals that have been [...]
October 11th, 2010 ryansmith Received the link to this post from a good friend of mine, Colleen Torlone, (http://lifeswellspring.blogspot.com/). Thought it appropriate and necessary to repost it. Your kid’s an All Star? Wow! Someday he’ll be average like the rest of us. The church in America is puzzled. Young adults are leaving in droves. Magazines, books and blogs are wagging [...]
September 30th, 2010 ryansmith 
Our next FUSE Night at EPIC is November 7th. Our FUSE Nights begin with a family dinner (the whole family invited) at 5:00 pm. We then do a game together and break up into groups afterwards (middle school, high school, parents). This month’s parent topic is, Family Priorities: Making the best out of your busy [...]
Posted in Parents, Sunday Nights Tags: center, church, community, dinner, discussion, epic, family, fuse, grace, lewis, ministries, oh, ohio, orange, parent, point, student No Comments » June 7th, 2010 ryansmith I mentioned a book this past weekend while giving the weekend sermon. It is titled, Parenting Beyond Your Capacity, by Reggie Joiner and Carey Nieuwhof. I would highly recommend this book to any parent no matter if you have children or teenagers. Here is a review of the book: When parents work in tandem with [...]
