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How to Stay Married and Stay in Ministry

Being married when you have a job is hard. It’s even more of a challenge when you’re a pastor. Here’s a few ways that you can have a successful marriage and survive in ministry.

How Ministry Will Test Your Marriage

Hear me if you are a young minister considering marriage—pastoral ministry is not a Norman Rockwell painting. Pastoral ministry will test the very bonds of your covenant marriage many times. 

Measuring the Success of Your Marriage Ministry

One of the biggest challenges of marriage ministry is that it’s important, but not urgent. How then do you measure the success of your marriage ministry?

5 Solutions to Providing Childcare at Your Next Marriage Event

One of the biggest things preventing couples from attending marriage events is childcare. But this can be a tough service to provide. Here are five places you can rely on for childcare at your next event.

How to Work with Your Church’s Communications Staff

During one of our recent marriage ministry webinars, a church leader asked how she could better work with the communications staff at her church. She was having trouble getting marriage content added to the website and social media. Maybe this is a challenge you can...

Take the MIC . . . or not

by Ted Lowe If you have been following MarriedPeople, then you are probably familiar with our mission statement/tagline: Helping Churches Help Marriages. We say all the time that we want to make the church the hero. Why? Because we believe that the church has to own...

MarriedPeople Larger Group Experience: Tips and Timelines

by Jonathon Mitchell You just downloaded your first MarriedPeople Larger Group Experience from the Strategy Pack – Holy smokes, there'’s a lot of stuff in here! We’'ve been putting on Large Group environments for a few years with MarriedPeople. The first thing that I...

This or That? Helping Newlyweds Make Big Life Decisions

by Scott Kedersha Life for newlyweds is full of new beginnings, opportunities, and decisions. They face questions and decisions surrounding education, debt, houses, cars, and growing families. There probably isn'’t another season in marriage when a couple is faced...

Your Behind the Scenes Help: The Orange Specialist

Sometimes help is closer than you realize. If you'’ve purchased a MarriedPeople Strategy Pack, you have some great resources to implement a marriage strategy in your church, and even in your community. But in the mass of videos and documents and graphics and other...

A Year in the Life of the MarriedPeople Strategy

by Ted Lowe “MarriedPeople is different.” We get that a lot. We are different in many ways. For one, we are proactive versus reactive. We think the best thing a church can do for couples is to help them avoid getting into crisis in the first place, and we think the...

Can You Really Get Men Excited About Marriage Ministry?

When Doug Fields and I finished writing the book, Married People How Your Church Can Build Marriages That Last, we sent it to 15 people to read before it went to print. Several people commented that we were too repetitive on one issue——the importance of being...

How MarriedPeople is Orange

by Tim Walker In case you didn'’t know, MarriedPeople is part of something bigger. It'’s called Orange, and it'’s a strategy and resources to equip the church and the family to impact a generation. (If you'’re not familiar with Orange, you can find out more about it...