Lifestyle Training Centre


Family Courses and Seminars


MMI – Marriage Ministries International

Marriage is the foundation of the family. When the marriage relationship is hurting, the family is hurting. The Married for Life course has been strengthening marriages since 1983. Its success is simply because it is based on God’s blueprint for marriage. He wants us to thrive in the covenant relationship of marriage that He created.

Marriage Ministries International works with the local church to heal and strengthen marriages. It is our firm belief that every couple has an assignment from the Lord and it is our desire to help build up and equip them for the work of their ministry as a one-flesh team.

We believe when the homes are strong, the churches are strong. The scriptural principles shared weekly in a Married for Life group teach couples how to walk in the fullness of their one-flesh relationship, enabling them to become a powerhouse Christian home, ministering salvation, healing and deliverance in the name of Jesus.Our Mission is to help couples establish their homes as powerful lighthouses in their neighbourhoods, reaching out to those around in the storms of life. Our goal is to have a strong powerhouse founded on Jesus Christ on every block of every city and town in South Africa!

One | Pre-Marital Course

  • One for Life course is a Bible based premarital course designed for first-time marriages

Love may be blind but preparing for marriage should be done with your eyes wide open!

Do you really know the person you are marrying? One for life is our bible based premarital course designed for engaged Christian couples. Eight weeks are spent discovering Gods principles for marriage and applying them to your lives so that you can have confidence that you are entering marriage well prepared.

Do you really know yourself?

Have you dealt with all your past relationships?

How about your relationship with your parents?

All of these factors help determine the success of your marriage. When two become one it should be for a lifetime. Before you take that important step, make sure you really know what you are doing. Our Bible based pre-marital course brings you through eight weeks of preparation for marriage which can make all the difference in the years to come.

In ONE for Life you will learn…

  • Why marriage won’t solve your problems.
  • The ramification of 1×1 = 1.
  • Why you won’t be able to change him or her.
  • How your relationship with father and Mother is going to affect your marriage.
  • How your partner’s relationship with father and Mother is going to affect your marriage.
  • Why you need your parent’s blessing.
  • Why it really does matter if you have loved and lost.
  • How many people will you be sleeping with?
  • Why many people have divorced several times before they ever marry.
  • What is the difference between a covenant and a contract?
  • Is “till death do us part” really possible.
  • Seriously for better or for worse.
  • What is the most intimate thing you can do together?
  • What’s the big deal about being a virgin?
  • Can sexual purity be regained?
  • What is your mission in life?
  • How to fulfil your destiny together.

Issues you may not have considered before now.

Parenting for Life Course

Whether our children are infants or adults, once we have them, we are parents for life. Wouldn’t it be great if we couldn’t have children until we passed Parenting 101 with flying colours? With “Parents for Life”, our Bible-based parenting course, you are well equipped to give your children the solid start they need in life. Unfortunately, most of the time as parents we learn as we go. We learn from relatives and friends, from books we read and videos we watch, we learn from radio and television. And mostly we learn that we really don’t know much about what we are doing. Wouldn’t it be great to learn from the One who gave us our children in the first place? He created each one of them unique and special and He is the one who knows what each one needs and what will help each one grow and thrive.

Parents for Life is a nine-week parenting course for married couples—nine weeks that will change your family forever!

You will learn:

  • How the way you were parented affects how you parent.
  • How to forgive and let go of childhood wounding.
  • How to prevent making the same mistakes with your children.
  • Why a child needs two parents.
  • God’s plan for husband and wife as a parenting team.
  • Why moms can’t be dads and dads can’t be moms.
  • How God uniquely creates each child.
  • What is your child’s personality and giftings?
  • How to best help each of your children develop uniquely.
  • Which comes first, teaching or training.
  • How to train children to obey immediately.
  • Why early training makes a difference throughout life.
  • What is each child’s learning style.
  • How to make learning enjoyable.
  • How parents teach 24/7.
  • How to agree on what discipline is appropriate.
  • How to recognize reactive discipline.
  • How a child’s temperament determines the best discipline.
  • When to begin letting go.
  • Why we are parents for life, not parenting for life.
  • How to co-operate with God’s plan for each of your children.

Each parent’s role in developing healthy adults.

Crown | Financial Course

Stressed or confused about personal finances?

Lack of purpose? Hate your job or career?

Don’t know what the Bible says about finances and work?

In the world’s economy, success is measured by what you have in your hand. In God’s economy, success is measured by what is in your heart. When you align your beliefs with biblical truth, the right behaviors will follow.

Crown exists to help individuals, families, and churches live in financial freedom as a direct result of heart transformation. Getting out of debt, living on a budget, and having money in the bank are important. But if that’s all we did, we would fail in our real mission.

For us, stewardship isn’t about ordering your life in such a way that you can spend as much as you want on whatever you want. True stewardship is ordering your life in such a way that God can spend you however He wants to spend you.

Career Direct Assessments: Occupational and Educational

Do you want, or do you want your child to make the right career and educational choices? What is you God design and your purpose?

Career Direct ® is a revolutionary consultation based assessment system that combines

Biblical principles of talent stewardship with cutting-edge career guidance technology and statistics. Career Direct ® has 20+ years of development and has been rigorously tested and validated for accuracy. Nearly 200,000 clients, including adults and students, have benefited from Career Direct ®. It is one of the few assessment tools that approach career guidance from a biblical perspective while focusing on four key dimensions of a person’s design–Personality, Interests, Skills, and Values. Many career guidance assessments cover only one or two of these areas. Career Direct® was developed to incorporate all four dimensions into the full profile Detailed Report.

Career Direct ® Facts:

  • The assessment can be completed in about an hour
  • The Detailed Report is thirty-four pages

Career Direct Consultants have been specifically and carefully trained to assist their clients.

Personality Identity (PID) Assessments

Personality Identity is in partnership with Crown Ministries.

Look inside hearts and minds with Personality Identity (PID).

Personality ID is a proven and powerful DISC diagnostic tool that looks inside the psyche of you as individual, your spouse, family or your employees to give you a better understanding of who you/they are. It will help give you the ability to better understand individual needs and group dynamics.

In the work place:

  • Improve the moral and productivity of existing employees.
  • Diagnose and address chronic team performance issues.
  • Identify strategic gaps for recruitment.
  • Challenge and retain top talent.

There are different kinds of reports that will help you in your specific situation:

Individual reports, comparison reports, team reports, advanced team reports, Individual family report and comparison family report.

In your marriage, it can help you to:

  • Enhance your communication
  • Understand you and your spouse’s financial behaviour
  • Strengthen your relationships
  • Improve collaboration
  • Tighten the bonds of your family

PID Consultants have been specifically and carefully trained to assist their clients.



Proverbs 15:22: ‘ Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.’

The family of Love and Faith not only provide professional counselling, but also aim to train and develop specialized counsellors.

Our aim is:

  • To guide and help and lead individuals to discover Christ-centered answers to personal, relational, financial or other challenges.

If you are seeking guidance for issues such as marital and family relationships, communication and intimacy, parenting, grief and loss, anger and bitterness, inner personal struggles, spiritual discouragement and trauma, you may contact us. Our counsellors receive extensive training, ongoing supervision, and continuing education.


Proverbs 15:22: ‘ Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.’

The family of Love and Faith not only provide professional counselling, but also aim to train and develop specialized counsellors.

Our aim is:

  • To guide and help and lead individuals to discover Christ-centered answers to personal, relational, financial or other challenges.

If you are seeking guidance for issues such as marital and family relationships, communication and intimacy, parenting, grief and loss, anger and bitterness, inner personal struggles, spiritual discouragement and trauma, you may contact us. Our counsellors receive extensive training, ongoing supervision, and continuing education.


Heritage of Faith Bible Institute and Leadership Academy

  • Heritage of Faith Bible Institute offers a part-time program allowing students to be dedicated to the family as well as their place of work, at the same time dedicating themselves to a meaningful study of Word of God. The program is supported and recognised by Jerry Savelle Ministries International with Dr Jerry Savelle as the Chancellor of Heritage of Faith Bible Institute. We believe, through the prayerfully selected course material, that the Spirit of Christ is imparted to the students. Each Bible Institute is planted into a local church enabling believers to attend part time Bible classes while still enjoying participation in their local church body and community.

Vision:

  • Touch, Teach and Train believers to be truly dedicated New Testament Christians as well as individuals of positive influence for the Kingdom of God in their family, Church, community and their generation.

Mission:

  • Promoting a positive life experience through relevant education.

Programs we offer:

  • Basic Bible Training
  • Personal Leadership Training
  • Advanced Ministry Training
  • Post Graduate Study Programs.

For more information, contact the Dean of Vanderbijlpark Campus, Pastor Hannes Schmahl at 071 150 8182 or visit the website at www.hfbi.co.za


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