Marriage Week starts this Sunday 8 September, so mark your calendars and get ready to give your marriage a boost by investing some quality time with your spouse and your Heavenly Father.
Whether your marriage is doing great or not so great, Marriage Week has been designed to help all married couples thrive.
Brett and Kate Ryan from Focus on the Family joined DJ and Fel on Rise and Shine to share some snippets about Marriage Week and tell you about the generous giveaway for the Journey to Us Marriage Retreat coming up in October.
For starters, Focus on the Family have just launched a 16-page PDF download called Helping Couples Thrive, that gives information on:
- How to have a good conversation
- How to fight fair
- Finding your spouse’s love language
- How to deal with disappointment and difficulty
- Destructive marriages and a variety of other things.
The Marriage Toolkit Hub includes lots of helpful resources including a free marriage assessment questionnaire, courses, downloads and much more to help you fine-tune your marriage and help with problem areas.
Journey to Us Marriage Retreat Giveaway
Focus on the Family in partnership with Vision Christian Media is giving away a very generous prize to help a couple boost their marriage to a new level.
The Journey to Us Marriage Retreat will be held from 18 to 20 October 2024 in Melbourne. It’s an opportunity for couples to step away from the daily grind, spend a weekend together, away from the kids and stresses of life, and invest in their marriage relationship.
The giveaway prize is worth $950 per couple. It doesn’t include airfares if you live outside Melbourne, but it does include two nights’ accommodation in a self-contained unit, all meals, including a formal dinner on the Saturday night, a gift bag, a few surprises, and a free counselling session.
Kate said that they’ve received glowing feedback from couples who had attended in the past. Those couples who came and were already doing well in their marriage said they walked away with so many great new ideas of how to connect and keep on track. And those people who came thinking it was their last ditch effort to save their marriage walked away holding hands.
‘It’s quite extraordinary what God does in this space,’ said Kate.
Click here to enter the Journey to Us Retreat ‘giveaway’. There are also 25 copies of John Mackay’s devotional booklet, Loving Her, Loving Him as runner-up prizes.
