Marriage
Ministry
When the Adventure of a Lifetime, Lasts a Lifetime
Marriage Training for Churches
Marriage Conferences for Churches
Hosting a Focus on the Family marriage event will help you strengthen marriages. Strong marriages are key to thriving churches and communities. We provide everything that you need for your church to be successful as you host your own unique marriage event for couples in your community.
Host this two-day experience for marriages in your congregation. This event is designed to help couples find their way back to a marriage that feel like the safest place on earth.
Host this two-day experience for marriage in your congregation. This event is designed to help couples move from roommates to soulmates in their marriages.
Host a two-hour date night for marriages in your congregation. This event uniquely ushers in healing and guidance through laughter for marriage of all kinds!
Couples Assessments
Do you know the strengths and weaknesses in your marriage? Find out using our Marriage Assessment. Both spouses will get a detailed report on ways to make their marriage even stronger, along with resources that will help deepen your bond.
Featured Articles
5 Ways a Marriage Ministry Builds Healthy Churches and Marriages
By prioritizing marriage ministry, churches can build resilient and vibrant congregations that reflect the transformative power of faith, commitment, and community. As we invest in the well-being of marriages, we nurture families and cultivate a flourishing church community as a beacon of hope and love.
5 Ways a Marriage Ministry Builds Healthy Churches and Marriages
By prioritizing marriage ministry, churches can build resilient and vibrant congregations that reflect the transformative power of faith, commitment, and community. As we invest in the well-being of marriages, we nurture families and cultivate a flourishing church community as a beacon of hope and love.
This article walks through how a wife can best support her husband to lead, and what that sort of respect can look like in marriage.
Featured Podcasts
Focus on the Family and Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley have assembled trusted Christian experts, Juli Slattery and Gary Chapman, for the new Ready to Wed™ Engaged Couples Curriculum. This easy-to-use resource is for those who mentor engaged couples and for pastors/churches who wish to use it for premarital counseling and Christian marriage preparation.
Focus on the Family and Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley have assembled trusted Christian experts, Juli Slattery and Gary Chapman, for the new Ready to Wed™ Engaged Couples Curriculum. This easy-to-use resource is for those who mentor engaged couples and for pastors/churches who wish to use it for premarital counseling and Christian marriage preparation.
Resources
Focus on the Family and Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley have assembled trusted Christian experts, Juli Slattery and Gary Chapman, for the new Ready to Wed™ Engaged Couples Curriculum. This easy-to-use resource is for those who mentor engaged couples and for pastors/churches who wish to use it for premarital counseling and Christian marriage preparation.
Recent Marriage Articles
Protect Your Marriage By Putting a Hedge Around It
How do you protect your marriage? Resolving to protect your marriage together requires committing to steer clear of “minor” threats and be accountable to one another. Drawing clear boundaries is necessary because you are human. But creating a hedge of protection around your marriage also has many rewards.
Advent Devotionals — Readings for Couples
Focus on the Family invites you and your spouse to celebrate Advent. To pause from the hectic pace of the holiday season and remember those who waited for God’s promised Son, to hope in His Word and to rest in His love.
Money and Marriage: Is It His, Hers, or Ours?
There is cultural confusion about money and marriage. From a biblical perspective, when two people marry they are creating a shared life together. This unity important reality that impacts every area of life, including finances. Money can’t be his or her money. It has to be our money. All things are shared.
Giving Thanks Together
The holiday season is a perfect time for giving thanks to our good God and counting the blessings that He provides. See if your heart change doesn’t impact your mood, your relationships and your perspective. May we all reject attitudes such as ingratitude, self-pity, fear, and envy. Instead, may we embrace a grateful heart.
