Marriage Ministry exists to enrich and enable marriages to make disciples who live and love like Jesus.
Marriage Enrichment
Marriage Enrichment strengthens and enriches marriages through Christ-centered support, fostering discipleship through couples to their children, friends, and extended families. We provide guidance, resources, and community to empower couples at all stages of their journey, cultivating loving, resilient relationships that reflect Christ's love and inspire others.
We achieve this through:
- Christ-Centered Marriage Curriculum suitable for Mid-Week, Life Groups, and Other Groups
- Structured Mid-Week Mentor-Led Classes
- Couples Mentorship
- Small Group Sharing/Community
- Married Couples Testimony
- Prayer
- Special Events
Marriage Enrichment groups provide an opportunity for couples to strengthen their marriage through discussing core aspects of marriage like communication, conflict resolution, trust and forgiveness. The small group experience helps each couple focus on areas of improvement and celebrate areas of success within their marriage.
The Marriage Enrichment groups are led by mentor couples who have been married for more than 20 years. Their transparency and experience encourage couples to openly discuss each week’s marriage topic.
All marriages go through seasons of joy and heartache. It takes commitment, determination, love, laughter and a whole lot of patience to make a marriage last for 50 years. Marriage Enrichment groups offer extra support and encouragement to couples because good marriages don’t just happen!
In a Marriage small groups, you will:
- Deepen your relational connection with your spouse.
- Find a group of caring couples who are also working on their marriage.
- Learn valuable tools to increase communication, resolve conflict and strengthen your marriage.
- Connect with a mentor couple who encourages transparency and honesty to promote growth.
- Develop accountability with other couples that challenges you to continue to work hard on your marriage.
- Find hope for the future.
Marriage Enrichment groups meet weekly on Wednesday nights in the fall and spring semesters. Check the calendar for more.
Marriage Foundations
A Life Group for Nearly and Newlyweds. Every marriage is important, and we want to help new couples establish a Christ-centered foundation in their first years of marriage.
Sessions meet every week and begin quarterly with a 12-month commitment.
Sessions meet every week and begin quarterly with a 12-month commitment.
Core Values in Marriage
The following are foundational principles derived from the Bible that guide and support a strong, healthy, and Christ-Centered marital relationships. These core values, when practiced, can strengthen, and sustain a marriage, creating a relationship that honors God and reflects His love. They are essential to making disciples who live and love like Jesus.
Love
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. (1 Corinthians 13:4-6 ESV)
Commitment
Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate. (Mark 10:9 NIV) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. (Ephesians 5:25 ESV)s
Respect
Faithfulness
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. (Ephesians 5:33 ESV)
Forgiveness
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. (Ephesians 4:32 NIV)
Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery. (Hebrews 13:4 NLT)
Unity
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24 ESV)
Communication
Service
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. (James 1:19 NIV)
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. (Philippians 2:3 ESV)
Trust
Prayer
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV)
Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (Mark 11:24 ESV)
Patience
Sacrifice
Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. (Ephesians 4:2 NLT)
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13 ESV)