Western EuropeSwitzerland testimonyDear FamilyLife team We are firm in our decisions which we took there at the conference and we do want to live our marriage together with Jesus—to be positive and reach others. We wish for your team God’s inspiring and creative love for your valuable work. We have some hope to join you in the project with families. Yours , Sandra & Thomas United Kingdom"I will buy my wife more chocolates on Mondays!" "I will be more gentle and forgiving." "I'm encouraged to work on the weak area of our marriage and because I really want us to grow old together and still have fun." "I am encouraged to reorder my priorities, to make my marriage, as opposed to church, a priority. My life has been out of sync in terms of balance and priorities. This has been a wake up call!" These are just a few of the comments from the recent Day to Treasure, one day marriage event with 45 couples attending. Four couples were also very interested in volunteering to work with FamilyLife. Another couple wanted to start a study group written by the FamilyLife director and his wife entitled Together. It is similar to a HomeBuilders Couples Series study. SwitzerlandThe FamilyLife ministry began in December 2004 at the EXPLO conference in Basel. The emphasis was on equipping married couples and laying a foundation for pre-marrieds. They recruited couples to be coaches for pre-married couples. The FamilyLife staff has grown to three full-time people and four Swiss Campus staff couples as conference speakers. They have marriage conferences called "Ehe mit Vision"--Marriage With a Vision Both conferences created great interest in starting or being involved in small group studies on marriage. Comments from conferees:
FamilyLife Switzerland has a partnership with the Alpha Marriage course. "Der Ehe-Kurs" is a secular, church-based marriage course. The format is similar to basic HomeBuilders. There was a one-day seminar that trained couples to lead this course. There were 300 people in attendance representing 19 denominations. The huge number of attendees and the solid effects did surpass our expectations. "Der Ehe-Kurs" bears the signs of an uncontrolled movement. God is recruiting couples to help others in their church and neighborhood. We are glad to contribute to this development by training people and supplying material in the German language. Their strategy is to develop a pre-marriage conference by using associate staff to reach the local churches. They have trained 24 coaches!
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