COUPLES RESOURCES
DATE NIGHT
Date Night with a Purpose- Comedian Jonnie W
Join FamilyLife for an unforgettable evening at Date Night with Purpose, featuring the hilarious comedian Jonnie W! Mark your calendars for Friday, March 28, at 7 PM for a night filled with laughter and meaningful connections. Whether you're looking to strengthen your relationship or simply enjoy a fun night out, this event is perfect for couples seeking joy and inspiration. Don’t miss out on a chance to unwind and connect in a vibrant and welcoming atmosphere. Bring your spouse and get ready for an evening that promises to uplift your spirits and deepen your bond!
WORKSHOP
Hold me Tight Workshop
Join the Hold Me Tight® Couples Workshop for a transformative journey towards a deeper, more fulfilling connection with your partner. Based on Dr. Sue Johnson’s Emotionally-Focused Therapy, you and your partner will learn how to improve your communication skills. Explore the power of attachment bonds and gain a deeper understanding of your relationship. Enhance your emotional connection through effective communication, becoming more aware of your negative couple cycle, and build a stronger emotional foundation.
Date: April 4-6, 2025
MARRIAGE INTENSIVE
The Marriage Hub
Founded in 2004 by Dr. Bruce McCracken, “The Marriage Hub” seeks to provide Biblically based marriage building experiences for couples of all ages and stages. Our bold vision is to see divorce and the pain and suffering it causes eradicated from our society. The Marriage Hub offers marriage intensives, couples coaching, weekly couple's devotionals and more.
*Next marriage intensive dates for Charlotte: April 4-6*
MARRIAGE ENRICHMENT CURRICULUM
re|engage
Whether your marriage needs to be reignited, or be completely resurrected, re|engage is a safe place for couples to reconnect. This ministry offers hope to marriages by helping couples move toward oneness through stories of grace, teaching, and small groups. Re|engage is a marriage enrichment program; whether couples are struggling to get along, have broken relationships, or simply want to grow closer together, marriages in any condition can benefit.
PREMARITAL MINISTRY
Merge
Merge is a premarital discipleship ministry designed for engaged and seriously dating couples. It's a chance to seek wisdom and receive counsel about marriage in a safe, fun, and authentic environment. Merge addresses common questions and challenges from a biblical perspective. Class dynamics include: large group teaching, small group discussion with mentors, and weekly homework.
COUNSELING
Novanimus: Couples Coaching
Debbie and Earnie Heatwole offer individual and couples coaching based on Christian principles that will renew and equip each client with skills and insight to achieve a healthier and purposeful future.
PREMARITAL ASSESSMENT
SYMBIS
Preparing for a strong and passionate marriage is one of the most important things you’ll ever do.
More than a million couples have used the award-winning Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts (SYMBIS for short) and now–through the new SYMBIS Assessment–you can prepare for lifelong love like never before.
BOOK
6 Pillars of Intimacy
In the 6 Pillars of Intimacy®, you will discover secrets that have transformed countless marriages. Its ideas are simple, practical, and powerful. You’ll be inspired to look at your marriage through a new lens and be encouraged by its commonsense approach.
Alisa and Tony DiLorenzo's proven approach to building intimacy in marriage will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your spouse.
PODCAST
One Extraordinary Marriage
ONE Extraordinary Marriage Show is a weekly podcast dedicated to helping you strengthen communication, build trust and create intimacy in your marriage. In each episode you'll learn about the tools, resources, and strategies that you will need to overcome your intimacy challenges.
Marriage is not always easy but it's so worth it. Come and make your marriage EXTRAORDINARY!
MARRIAGE RETREAT
Weekend to Remember by Family Life
No marriage is static. Each day, each choice, you’re moving closer together toward oneness … or coasting farther apart. At the intersection of a faith-based relationship conference and romantic marriage retreat from everyday life, Weekend to Remember helps couples do just that—choose oneness. Whether you’re sending up an SOS for marital rescue or looking to foster an already flourishing connection, Weekend to Remember is your best next step toward being, and staying, one.
FAMILY MINISTRY
Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family is a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive. They provide help and resources for couples to build healthy marriages that reflect God’s design, and for parents to raise their children according to morals and values grounded in biblical principles. From events, podcasts, small groups and more- they are a wealth of resources for your marriage!
MARRIAGE MINISTRY
All In Marriage
Created by John and Ginger Oriente, All In Marriage is a multi-pronged mentored based marriage ministry. Out of their own marriage struggles, they created this ministry, which trains mentor couples to help marriages around them in need. They host small groups, date nights, marriage conferences and more!
SMALL GROUP
Covenant Keepers
Join a community of believers who encourage one another during this difficult season in your marriage. Small groups gather in person and through video conferences where compassionate people listen, learn and pray for one another. Ministry is delivered through the power of the Holy Spirit in small groups meeting in homes, churches and on-line.
MARRIAGE MENTORSHIP
Ultimate Marriage
Ultimate Marriage is a six-week, online marriage mentor program built on biblical theology, deep community, and action. Each week Dale & Veronica Partridge teach a Bible-based lesson based on that week’s marriage theme, in the comfort of a private online community.
MARRIAGE ASSESSMENT
Prepare/Enrich
Prepare/Enrich adapts and reacts to the changing reality of relationships through continued research and development of assessment versions and resources. The reliability of the assessment and feedback guided by our Facilitators help couples strengthen and enrich their relationships.
BOOK
Ready or Knot?
The wedding day is just one day in the life of a couple. But God's design is for marriage to last a lifetime. So how can someone know that the person they're with is the one they can truly build a life with - especially when so few marriages around them work? Pastor Scott Kedersha has worked with more than 5,000 premarital couples to prepare them for the biggest decision of their lives. In Ready or Knot?, he offers practical and Christ-centered guidance for couples for all of the days after the wedding day.
BOOK
Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away
What should husbands and wives do when they feel like giving up? In this updated guide, veteran counselor Gary Chapman offers biblical insight and positive steps for embattled couples in a wide range of situations. Find targeted advice for dealing with workaholism, unfaithfulness, addictions, depression, abuse, controlling personalities, and more.
NEWLY MARRIEDS SMALL GROUP
Foundation Groups
The first few years of marriage are often the most difficult, but can also be the most joyous. Foundation Groups are community groups for married couples who have been married 3 years or less. 4-6 couples are placed in a group together with a more experienced mentor couple who leads them through 15 months of curriculum.
COACHING & CLASSES
Yes Marriage Works, Inc.
Yes, Marriage Works is dedicated to serving the faith community by offering coaching, coach training, relationship classes, intensives, and events. Their programs are designed to empower individuals and couples within the faith community to build strong, resilient relationships. Whether through personalized coaching, skill development, or community events, they strive to enhance the relational well-being of faith communities, fostering a foundation for lasting and thriving marriages.
BOOK
Created for Connection
Are you looking to enrich a healthy relationship, revitalize a tired one, or rescue one gone awry? Do you yearn to grow closer to God, and to further incorporate Him and His teachings into your marriage? In CREATED FOR CONNECTION, Dr. Johnson and Kenneth Sanderfer, a leading EFT practitioner in the Christian community, share Johnson's groundbreaking and remarkably successful program for creating stronger, more secure relationships not only between partners, but between us and God.
BOOK
Reconnected: Moving from Roommates to Soulmates in Marriage
Whether you’ve been married for six years or six decades, you may wake up one day to discover that the person sleeping next to you has become a stranger. Between work, kids, financial woes, and the busyness of everyday living, your marriage may feel like it’s on life support. You and your spouse love each other, but you’re both barely hanging on. How do you find your way back?
FAMILY MINISTRY
The Family Reformation Project
The Family Reformation project is an excellent resource for couples, churches, and marriage leaders alike. They use a biblical blueprint with a practical roadmap to equip families, connect intentionally, and transform culture. They offer live and recorded classes, marriage and family coaching services, resources for church leaders, a podcast, and more!
MARRIAGE COACHING
Married As One
Felice Mathieu is a seasoned Christian marriage and family coach with over 25 years of experience of coaching couples. He holds a B.A. in Christian Counseling Psychology and a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, making him an expert in the field. Felice, together with his wife Retta, founded Married As One LLC, a ministry committed to providing biblical coaching services to couples. Through Married As One LLC, Felice and Retta help couples learn critical biblical skills that inspire better communication and foster stronger relationships.
ADDICTION SUPPORT
Celebrate Recovery for Marriages
Celebrate Recovery is a biblically based discipleship program that guides couples through the 12 steps. Large group begins at 6pm every Friday night (which consists of educational videos, and speakers) at 7pm we break down into small groups for a structured discussion on the given topic. Men are put in small groups with men and women are placed in small groups with women. Each small group has a fully trained leader who facilitates the questions. The meeting runs from 6-8pm at Lifepointe Church.
PODCAST
Christian Family Life Podcast
What started as a question “God you created marriage can you make it work” soon became a statement “God, you created marriage you can make it work” thank you for joining us on the Christian family life podcast where we get into the good the bad and the ugly in our marriage relationships and mine God‘s word to see what it has to say about it.
See additional resources for churches and marriage leaders.