VOG Marriage Ministry


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Valentine's Day Skit (2.14.10)
How to save you marriage from your kids
(Teri Cettina from parentling.com c/o CNN)

Objectives:

  • To help develop courting couples for marriage through pre-marriage seminars and counseling sessions on:
  • Their preparedness for marriage
    The courtship period
    Compatibility
    Willingness to sacrifice
    Marriage expectations and early year situations to watch out for.
    Strengthening young marriages and address most frequently encountered difficulties at major time landmarks: 5 yrs, 10 yrs, 20 yrs, 30 yrs in to marriage
    Addressing the addition of children to a marriage and its effect on a couple’s relationship.
    How to adjust, accommodate and still keep the relationship flame burning.
    To help rebuild broken or breaking marriages, by applying life changing principles from the bible to contemporary issues and relationships.
    Some individuals and couples are in such need as to require counseling, specialized work that is particularly tailored to assist them in resolving short-term or long-term personal or relational crises and difficulties, thus this ministry will provide such. Delineating roles of a husband and wife as individuals in a relationship.

    Workshop Topics

    Trust within a marriage – Trusting your spouse, making yourself trustworthy
    Keeping God in the relationship – Mandating family worship…
    Keeping the fire kindled
    Keeping your marriage exciting
    Challenging each other intellectually
    Rekindling the flame – loss of attraction and passion within a marriage
    Enrichment is important for marriages that want to stay healthy. Your marriage needs renewal and support.
    Spending enough time with your family (Husband, wife, children)
    What to expect, 5 yrs, 10 yrs, 20 yrs, 30 yrs into marriage
    Did I Marry the Wrong Person? Questioning your marriage
    Reconciliation – Reviving a broken Marriage…


    Useful Links: Family Dynamics: Comprehensive Marriage Ministry