Night out

Making time for one another is part of growing a healthy marriage. To help you do this, we offer ongoing opportunities for couples including:

• Date Nights

  We offer on-campus and off-campus date nights to help you get away from it all and spend time with your spouse.

• Seminars

  We offer seminars and conferences that explore various aspects of the five purposes.

Essentials

Marriage essentials are an opportunity for couples to learn God’s design for marriage broken down into five stand-alone classes that are fun and interactive, each covering one purpose.

• Honor

  Come learn the art of honoring your spouse and move beyond unhealthy patterns of relating.

• Relational Intimacy

  Come learn the secret of deeper level of connection in a busy world.

• Spiritual Intimacy

  Come learn the art of connecting with God together and growing in faith as a couple.

• Partnership

  Come learn how our unique S.H.A.P.E. can create a unique partnership and ministry with our spouse.

• Message

  Come learn how to dream together a marriage that communicates the harmony of the gospel to others.

Skill Retreats

Our marriage retreats consist of time away with your spouse with an emphasis on time outside the classroom. Each retreat covers practical skills you can use right away to help you and your spouse build your marriage on purpose.

• Honor

  This retreat covers the skills of setting a good pattern of honoring one another as an act of worship to God.

• Relational Intimacy

  This retreat covers the skills needed to build closer connection with your spouse.

• Spiritual Intimacy

  This retreat covers the skills needed to begin to grow together spiritually.

• Partnership

  This retreat covers the skills needed to become a team together with your spouse.

• Message

  This retreat covers the skills needed to dream and plan the future of your marriage.

Transitions

Transitions is an opportunity for couples to learn about the challenges we all face in the six marital transitions to connect with other couples in the same phase of life.

• Newly Married (the first five years of marriage)

  Explore some of the challenges newly married couples face now that the honeymoon is over and real life is in full swing.

• New Parent

  You are about to have your first child or may have just welcomed your baby into the world. Come and explore some of the new-found challenges of being a parent and their effect on your marriage.

• Parent of elementary age kids

  Come explore some of the challenges of raising elementary-age children and balancing school and activities while helping your kids grow spiritually.

• Parent of Teens

  Just when you thought it would get easier, along comes the teen years! Come explore the unique challenges that come from raising a teen in a world of mixed messages.

• Empty Nest

  Come explore a new set of challenges that comes from being alone again including getting to know one another again, dealing with kids who may move back home, issues of retirement, and aging parents.

• Stepfamilies

  These classes will help you navigate the unique challenges every stepfamily faces as you learn principles of surrendering, embracing, training, preparing and sharing.