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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...

3 Things I’ve Learned About Marriage Ministry

When I first got hired at my church to help married couples, I was a little overwhelmed. There are a lot smarter people than me, a lot more skilled individuals who could be occupying my office right now. The thing is, God brought me here. That means I’m responsible to do the best I can with the resources I have.

3 Most Frequent Questions We Get About Marriage Ministry

Call it helping marriages, creating a marriage strategy, or revamping an existing marriage ministry. Church leaders have questions for us about helping marriages. And the questions are coming from people in every position of the church. In fact, MarriedPeople, the...

How To Promote Marriage Events at Your Church

I recently spoke at a marriage event that had a great turnout, primarily because the church did an incredible job promoting it. I was so impressed with their work that asked the church how they promoted the event. And since this is so important, I thought I’d share their answers with you.

Behind-the-Scenes: Strategy Pack

We recently released our latest pack of annual resources for marriage ministries. As with every year, these annual resources fall under one overarching theme. The theme for this year is Game Changers: because small things make a big difference.

LEADER PROFILE: Todd Graham

Every month, we want to profile a church leader just like you. This month, we’re featuring Todd Graham. Todd has been the Family Pastor at Eastside Baptist Church in Marrietta, Ga., for the last 14 years.

OC18 Breakout Notes: Marriage Ministry 201

We’ve done Marriage Ministry 101 breakouts for the past few years at Orange Conference. This year, we’re excited to introduce Marriage Ministry 201. This takes our insights and training to the next level.

How Your Church Can Be a Game Changer For Marriages

As church leaders, we can often rush to the rescue of couples in crisis—and we should. But what if we could get to married couples before they hit crisis? What if we could keep them from ever getting into crisis in the first place? I believe now more than ever, that we can.  We simply have to help them with small things for their marriage—because small things that can make a huge difference.

Meet the Communicators: Game Changers

Every year, MarriedPeople releases an annual strategy pack that provides your church with a ton of great resources to impact marriages. This year, the theme of our strategy pack is Game Changers—because small things can make a big difference.

LEADER PROFILE: Laura Wright

Every month, we want to profile a church leader just like you. This month, we’re featuring Laura Wright. Laura has been the Family Ministries Director at First Baptist Church of Gray in Gray, Ga., for the last 10 years.

2018 Orange Conference Marriage Breakouts

The 2018 Orange Conference is right around the corner! This year’s theme is ONE VOICE: We Can Do More Together. Sounds like a pretty good slogan for both ministry AND marriage. As always, there will be plenty of marriage breakouts happening at the conference. We hope that you’ll join us for as many of these as possible.