Marriage Mentoring

Marriage Mentoring

Just as all living things need care and cultivation to thrive, so do marriages. Marriage mentoring is a deep, relational way for couples to enrich and improve their walk together in Christ through purposeful conversations with a godly, loving couple.

We ask married couples to make four Biblical commitments to themselves and us before beginning mentoring. Are they willing to:

  • maintain a growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ?
  • commit to the permanency of marriage wherein divorce is not an option?
  • complete the mentoring program, which usually entails an initial and closing pastoral meeting and 7 sessions with trained mentors over 14 weeks?
  • remain relationally and sexually faithful to your spouse (including the rejection of pornography) throughout your marriage?

If a spouse has been previously married and divorced, we will want to discuss with the couple what the divorce recovery process has been like and what effect, if any, that former relationship is having on the present one. In some instances we may ask the previously divorced spouse to complete a Restoration (divorce recovery) seminar before proceeding with marriage mentoring. In other cases we may add mentoring sessions in order to discuss divorce-related issues in more detail.

From a big-picture perspective, our Marriage Mentoring is comprised of the following relational steps:

  1. An initial contact with Couples and Family Pastor, contact Matt Clark, Couples and Family pastor, at 327-4422 x258 or .
  2. At least seven regular sessions with trained mentors covering the topics in Life Center's Marriage Mentoring Manual.
  3. For those who have experienced a previous divorce, additional sessions dealing with issues from former marriages (if deemed helpful by the pastor or mentors).
  4. A concluding meeting with the pastor.
  5. A "six-month follow up" with the mentors, perhaps for coffee, dessert, or a meal.

How Marriage Mentoring supports marriages...

The closeness and depth of the mentoring relationship provides tremendous potential for Christ to work in couples' lives and marriages, further forming them to His character and purposes and increasing their joy and fulfillment.