Wufoo

Our priority as clergy is to promote lasting marriages under God and to establish spiritually healthy families. As clergy with the privilege of performing the ceremonial unions, we are in a unique position to dramatically impact the marriages and families in our community.

Our purpose is to equip couples for marriage and to provide on-going opportunities for marriage enrichment and restoration with hopes to significantly reducing the divorce rate in Palm Beach County.

Therefore as servants of God, we accept our responsibility to require couples to set aside time for marriage preparation. We acknowledge that a wedding is but for a day, while the covenant of marriage is for a lifetime.

What God has joined together, let the faith community of Palm Beach County hold together.

Therefore we will:

1. Promote a healthy and biblical model of marriage.
2. Require a minimum of 4 months of preparation.
3. Promotes sexual abstinence outside of marriage.
4. Present the evidence of the negative impact of cohabitation on marriage.
5. Require a minimum of 4 premarital sessions, utilizing both the scriptures and a premarital inventory; and at least two post-marital counseling sessions within the first year of marriage.
6. Enrich existing marriages with an annual event in the local church using videos, marital inventories, or outside speakers.
7. Train "back from the brink” couples whose own marriages once nearly failed to mentor those in current crisis.
8. Reconcile the separated or abandoned with a course, "Marriage 911"
9. Enlist, train, and equip a support system of mature married couples to serve as Marriage Mentors to engaged couples, newlyweds, and those experiencing marital difficulties.
10. Create Stepfamily Support Groups to provide a place of prayer, encouragement and hope to stepfamilies.
11. Partner with other congregations and organizations to share resources and create a positive climate in which marriages can thrive.