Marriage & Relationships

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Overview

One of our goals at the River Church is to help create a healthier community through building into marriages and families. Healthier families help to create a healthier community. Helping and supporting people in marriage is something we do through a number of ministries.

Pre-Marriage Mentoring

One of the main ways we build into marriages and families is by providing engaged couples with marriage mentors and an opportunity to prepare for marriage through our Pre-Marriage Mentoring Program. This 6-7 week journey was created by professional marriage counsellors Carole and Paddy Ducklow (some great marriage resources at http://theducklows.ca). If you are engaged and desire to better prepare yourselves for a lifelong satisfying marriage, give us a call and we can set you up with a mentoring couple. If you have been married for 5 years or more and you believe you have something to give in this area, please contact us info@intheriver.ca and we can help you become trained Pre-Marital Mentors. 

Marriage Date Nights

Marriage Date-Nights are designed to help good marriages become even better. These eight session date-nights are set in a warm, welcoming and familiar setting - Bean Brackendale coffee shop. How the evening works is that you grab your favourite drink, something to eat and find a seat. The evening facilitators will share a bit from their own personal experience as it relates to the evening's topic, and then each couple will be given a card with a series of questions designed to help the couple talk through issues related to the evening's topic. The topics and questions are based upon the pre-marital mentoring course. 

There is never any group work and you will never be asked to share anything about your relationship with anyone other than your partner. It's a wonderful opportunity to make your marriage even better! Stay tuned for the upcoming marriage date nights.

Marriage Counseling

Are you struggling to sort through a personal issue within your marriage and are not sure where to turn? We may be able to help by directing you to someone on staff who is a a certified, professional counsellor or refer you to someone else who has a Christian perspective.  More info coming soon.
Marriage & Relationships