Some married couples find marriage hard and believe that it is harder now than it used to be. We in the church need to help, support and encourage married couples no matter the length of time they have been married. This ministry should be nothing less than that for our children’s, youth, men or women’s ministries.

With the current pressures of ‘the world’, the continual spiritual attack, busyness etc church leadership can be spending a vast proportion of their time in one to one marriage/family counselling. Such time would be positively impacted by the church having a pro-active marriage ministry led by a suitable married couple, having a strong marriage and a love for marriage who have been empowered by the church leadership. The ministry being focused on building, strengthening marriages of any condition or length married with a gaol of having trained mentors and regularly running equipping events whether evenings, weekend retreats or conferences. All of these being ways to help couples to understand and bring into their own marriage God’s principles for marriage; ways that would impact the direction of their marriage and their individual lives, their family, the church, and the community they serve.

The Marriage Ministry Kit contains different ‘stepping stones’ to meet the needs of growing the church ministry to marriages.

Marriage ministry kit

MINISTRY KIT

The Ministry Kit is contained in one convenient zipped file that is held on our Gdrive, download link is below.

The Kit contains:

  1. Summary of your church Marriage and Family Life Ministry in last 12 months
  2. Ministry Planner
  3. A set of 27 Conversation Starter cards
  4. Time Together booklet for married couples
  5. Gift certificates ~ Baby Sitting
  6. Prayer Guide booklet for marriages
  7. Date Time
  8. Book List – For Marriages – For Parenting – Praying in marriage and families
  9. Hug Coupon
  10. 5 ‘Marriage Tip’ graphics
  11. Theology Statement
  12. Transform World Booklets – Marriage and Family Ministry

Item 1 is the place to start as when you have completed this it will give you an overview of the existing marriage and family ministry in the church and also possibly help to highlight some of the needs.

Within the zipped file there is a document describing how the items may be used.