Training Weekend Fall 2025
When: October 17th at 6:30pm
Where: Mill City Auditorium
Sign Up: HERE
Childcare?: Child care is not provided. If you need a babysitting stipend, please email Katie@millcitycayce.com. We also have a few members who have volunteered to watch kids at your house, email Spencer@millcitycayce.com for help with this.
What to Expect: If you’ve been to a past Training Weekend, this one will feel different. Instead of longer teaching sessions, we’ve designed this evening to be practical coaching. We will be hosting 5 breakout groups, each targeted at a specific aspect of parenting. You’ll choose 3 of these breakouts to rotate through during the evening, where you’ll receive practical coaching on discipling and parenting your children. Check out the list of our Breakouts below:
Discipline for Joy – led by Chet in the basement - How age-appropriate discipline leads your children to a joy-filled life.
Family Worship – led by Spencer in the gym - How to teach your kids the Bible through intentional moments of your making.
Kids Who Make Cents – led by Raz in the auditorium- How to train the next generation in generosity, work, and godly money habits.
Discipling Daughters – led by Matt in the office - How to shape and shepherd the priceless gift of our daughters.
From Pre-Teen to Empty Nesting – led by Stephen and Kari in the 3rd floor Kid City Red Room - Practical guidance for discipling kids through adolescence toward a lifelong love for Jesus.
How To Prepare for this Training Weekend
Tune into our new podcast: Trial by Father! As the host, Isaac sat down across from experienced parents to ask all sorts of questions, ranging from discipline to encouraging high schoolers in the faith. Episodes go live every Tuesday morning. We designed the teaching in this podcast to prepare you for a night of practical coaching. Make the most of Training Weekend by listening to these episodes ahead of time. Check it out here!
Check out the resources below. We listed some of our favorite books on parenting, as well as our Family Discipleship website: Roadmap.
Come with your questions. Each breakout is designed to have intentional time to interact with your questions, so come prepared to open a dialogue about what you’re specifically facing as a parent. This night will be less fruitful if you did not listen to the episodes from Trial By Father and did not come with questions.
Resources:
Books -
Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Ted Tripp (best for babies through middle school)
Age of Opportunity by Paul David Tripp (best for middle school through high school)
Parenting by Paul David Tripp (a big-picture overview for all ages)
MC Family Discipleship Website: Click here for Roadmap!
Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
1 Timothy 4:7-8
We have Training Weekends every year in order to train ourselves for godliness. Each one is themed in order to equip us to be biblically grounded men and women in every aspect of life. We look forward to seeing you at our next one, but until then, listen to our previous training weekends (below)!
