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These are professionally designed handouts for leaders to use in a variety of teaching/learning situations from the following categories: Children, Youth, Adults, Administration, Small Groups, and Spiritual Formation.
MARRIAGE PREPARATION and OTHER INITIATIVES
Managing the Issue with Your Spouse
An 11 point strategy for resolving issues with your spouse. Good handout in a young adult SS class or couples retreat.
Appreciation and Affection
Use this couple talk sheet for private interaction among spouses in appropriate settings.
30 Days of Talking with Your Spouse
Not too shallow, not too deep, just safe subjects to stay in touch. Download, duplicate, saturate.
Every Marriage Needs a Check Up
Excellent couples retreat tool. Very useful for private couple dialog. Download, duplicate, saturate.
Are You a Marriage-Saving Church?
Eight very tough questions on how to create a marriage culture in your church.
Prepare Enrich Training Information.
The best premarital inventory on the market. Check out the Prepare/Enrich web site.
Basic Standards for Church Weddings.
Excellent resource to help you establish a board-approved wedding policy in your church.
Marriage Preparation Questionnaire: Bride and Groom.
Properly filled out this instrument becomes a vital tool for information a pastor needs to intelligently counsel a couple for marriage.
You've Got to Think Past the Wedding
Based on the valid assumption that a wedding is not a marriage. Excellent reading resource for couples in pre-marital preparation.
Premarital Preparation Questions for Church Boards
Use this handout with church board committees who work in cooperation with the pastor in determining your churchs marriage preparation policy.
A Case for Strengthening Marriage
Leah Ward Sears presents a strong case for the state to be actively involved in marriage growth and maturity. Judge Sears is Supreme Court Justice for the State of Georgia. Print this Washington Post resource for your staff and those in your church involved in marriage preparation.
Planning for that Special Day
A handout for couples in the process of pre-marital preparation.
Twenty Good Reason Why Not to Cohabit Before Marriage
Another excellent Don Weston resource for pastor, counselor or relationship coach who may be dealing with a cohabiting couple.
The Fallacy of Being Sexually Active Before Marriage
When you cut to the core of the premarital sex issue, it comes out to be one of Lordship and self-controla gift you give to each other from the center of your spirituality.
