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Every time you come to this page I want you to hear me say “thank you” for the way you serve the engaged couples in our church. The value of a mature, mentor couple to invest in the life of an engaged and newly couple cannot be overestimated. With the material below we want to make your mentoring experience as logistically easy as possible. For each structured meeting with your engaged couple you will find the following information:

  • The video we created to orient engaged couples to each meeting
  • The most up-to-date tools / evaluations for each meeting
  • A sample exercise for the “Sketching Your Marriage Story” assignment
  • Templates of the form e-mails for you to cut-and-paste
  • Links to all the FAQ’s posts for/from mentors (at the bottom of the page).

First Meeting: Getting to Know Each Other

One week before this first meeting, please send your couple a personalized version of this e-mail (01. Meeting One E-mail) to make sure they have everything they need.

***Note: For the first meeting you will also need to complete these three evaluations. You will review them with your mentors at the end of this meeting to identify your main subject for meeting two.

 

Second Meeting: Foundations

One week before this second meeting, please send your couple a personalized version of this e-mail (02. Meeting Two E-mail) to make sure they have everything they need.

Third Meeting: Communication

One week before this third meeting, please send your couple a personalized version of this e-mail (03. Meeting Three E-mail) to make sure they have everything they need.

 

Fourth Meeting: Finances

One week before this fourth meeting, please send your couple a personalized version of this e-mail (04. Meeting Four E-mail) to make sure they have everything they need.

Fifth Meeting: Decision Making

One week before this fifth meeting, please send your couple a personalized version of this e-mail (05. Meeting Five E-mail) to make sure they have everything they need.

Sixth Meeting: Intimacy

One week before this sixth meeting, please send your couple a personalized version of this e-mail (06. Meeting Six E-mail) to make sure they have everything they need. After this meeting you may schedule the recommended 6 week, 3 month, and 6 month post-marital meetings with your couple.

FAQ Database

In this section we will link you to brief responses to many of the frequently asked questions asked by/of marriage mentors. This is a growing list of questions and answers, so please check back each time you get information to meet with your couples to see what’s been added.