Kris Swiatocho is the President and Director of TheSinglesNetwork.org Ministries. At TheSinglesNetwork.org Ministries, our sole purpose is to assist pastors and leaders build and maintain a single adult ministry. We define "success" by helping single adults to:
1. Develop their identity in Christ
2. Find fulfillment in Christ
3. Pursue relationships with other believers
4. Grow in their relationship with Christ
5. Learn to disciple others
Developing a single adult ministry is not about hosting social events or providing an environment for finding a mate. Instead, it's about teaching single adults to find Christ and, in turn, teach others to do the same. Relationships with each other will develop naturally as a result of group members having right relationships with Christ.
See below for a list of topics or go to her website at TheSinglesNetwork.org for a ton of great resources, topics, video clips, weblinks, testimonials and so much more.
Kris is available for consultation (short and long-term), training events, seminars and conferences. If there something not listed or if you would like something more customized, feel free to contact Kris at 919.434.3611.
YOUNG AND SINGLE ADULT MINISTRY DEVELOPMENT
1. Equipping your staff to minister to single adults
2. Equipping your congregation to minister to single adults
3. How to start a single adult ministry (SAM)
4. Small group development: Connecting, growing, maturing your SAM
5. Setting up goals and a mission statement for your SAM
6. Leadership development part 1: Giving the ministry away
7. Leadership development part 2: Team development
8. Leadership development part 3: Discipleship
9. Leadership development part 4: Accountability
10. Leadership development part 5: Outreach
11. Six levels of greeting: How to double your ministry size
12. Icebreakers, skits, team building and warm up exercises for your SAM
13. Creative Sunday School: From the front door to the curtains to the teacher
14. Marketing you SAM: From logo development to your web site
15. Conference development: The basics and beyond
16. Overcoming barriers and problems in your SAM
17, Take 5...Give 5: Becoming a welcoming ministry
18. Nehemiah: Keeping the vision out front
19. Creative Outreach for your SAM
20. Grow my singles ministry...I'm just trying to keep it going!
21. Stick a Fork in Me, I'm Done: Leadership burnout
22. What do you mean I'm the leader..leader of what?
23. Predators in our ministry...and we aren't talking the movie
24. Meet them, Greet Them, Grow Them, Keep Them
25. How to encourage, empower, and enable single adults
26. Pouring Out Of Nothing: Leadership Burning Out
27. Developing relationships with EGRs and dysfunctional or shy outsiders in your SAM
28. Three types of churches: Single-sensitive, single-focused, and single-targeted
(Leadership development can be taught as an all-day conference or over several months.)
YOUNG AND SINGLE ADULT MINISTRY PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
1. SAM evangelism part 1: Understanding who you are in Christ
2. SAM evangelism part 2: Developing and telling your story
3. SAM evangelism part 3: Reaching single adults within your church
4. SAM evangelism part 4: Reaching single adults in your community
5. Alone with God: Developing a noisy quiet time
YOUNG AND SINGLE ADULT CONFERENCES
1. Everything I need to know about relationships I learned from Shrek WATCH VIDEO
2. Jesus...Single Like Me: A walk with Christ through his eyes as a single adult
3. Relationships: God, friends, romance...in that order
4. Relationships: Building relationships that last (Bible study released Summer, 2005)
5. Relationships: Understanding the opposite sex
6. Leaving a Legacy: Taking your SAM to the next level
7. Finding your purpose, passion and developing your spiritual gifts
8. Purposely Single: God's got you here until He moves you there
9. Teamwork: Nehemiah's Way or the Highway
(Shorter versions available as seminar talks. Feel free to choose several seminar topics to create one larger conference.)
YOUNG AND SINGLE ADULT TALKS/SEMINARS
(all talks/seminars use movie clips of some kind)
1. Are you falling apart or just need a few screws? Renew, refresh and remake our purpose and passion in Christ
2. Purposely Single: God's got you here until He moves you there
3. Baby Steps: Making Changes That Last (uses movie clip "What About Bob")
4. The Big Chill: How to Rest, Relax and Renew in Christ (uses movie clip of "Scratch from the Ice Age 1")
5. Let's Talk About Sex: How to stay sexually pure in a sexual world (
6. Wanna get hitched and not to a uhaul: Online, Offline and Out of Line...ways single adults connect (movie clips from Hitch)
7. How to lose a guy/girl in 10 days: Ten things we do to sabotage romantic relationships (using movie clips from movie with same title)
8. Famous single adults: Understanding your value and purpose as a single adult
9. "I will get committed when..." Distractions that keep single adults from realizing God's purpose
10. Three kinds of friends: Which one are you?
11. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: Understanding God's promises for single adults
12. Friends: Life isn't meant to live in isolation but in the insulation of our friends?
13. Spiderman: A real hero...giving up our dreams to do God's best (movie clips from Spiderman)
14. A Single's Focus on God versus a "focus on singlesness"
15. One is the Loneliness Number That You've ever Heard: How being alone doesn't have to be lonely
16. Yea, my prince came...and he's still a frog: Why relationships fail
17. A funny thing happened on the way to church: Making yourself available to be used by God everyday
18. All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth: Needs versus wants, and knowing when it's enough
19. From drought to flood in 30 minutes: Steps to bring life back to your journey
20. Being content where you are...Until God moves you somewhere else!
21. Raise your white flag: Surrendering your life to Christ
22. Write me a love letter...just not on toilet paper: How we encourage, love, and show affection to others
23. Nip it in the bud before it sprouts: boundaries in relationships:
24. Rear View Mirror Addiction: Staying Stuck in the Past
25. Are we Married yet? How our present relationships keep us from getting married.
26. What do you Mean the Turkey will be Fried this Year? Traditions we love and hate.
27. From the Manger to the Cross: The women in Jesus' life.
28. It's just Gravy: Putting our personal life in the right order.
29. Spinning, Spinning, Spinning: Learning how to stop going nowhere so we can go somewhere.