Marriage Activities & Events
Opportunities exist for married couples (husbands and wives) to invest in their marriages through faith based small group studies and other activities. This is your invitation to experience deeper intimacy.
Thrive in Marriage
Small Group
Is your marriage drifting or distant?
Is it simply good…but not deeply connected?
Thrive in Marriage is a 6-week virtual small group designed to help couples rebuild friendship, improve communication, and strengthen emotional intimacy using 10 core relational truths.
You’ll gain practical tools, guided conversations, and intentional weekly connection moments — all in a safe, supportive environment with other couples who want more than just “getting by.”
Because thriving marriages don’t happen accidentally — they happen intentionally.
Registration is now open!
Art of Marriage
Small Group
The Newly Updated Art of Marriage® is a transformative small-group experience designed to help couples deepen connection, strengthen communication, and rediscover the beauty of God’s design for marriage.
Through engaging video sessions, guided discussion, and practical application, couples will explore what it means to build a marriage rooted in grace, trust, forgiveness, and lasting friendship.
Whether your marriage is strong and growing or facing challenges, this experience will help you move toward deeper unity, renewed purpose, and intentional love. *Coming in early May!
You will learn how to:
- Strengthen emotional and spiritual intimacy
- Navigate conflict with wisdom and compassion
- Build a resilient foundation rooted in faith
- Rediscover joy and partnership in everyday life
This is more than a study — it’s an opportunity to experience renewal together.
You will learn how to:
- Build and protect friendship at the core of your marriage
- Communicate clearly without escalating conflict
- Replace criticism and defensiveness with understanding
- Create shared meaning and long-term connection
Whether your goal is prevention or repair, these principles provide a roadmap for lasting intimacy and stability.
7 Principles for
Making Marriage Work
Small Group
Based on the research of Dr. John Gottman, this powerful small-group experience equips couples with practical, research-based tools to strengthen friendship, improve communication, and manage conflict in healthy ways.
Grounded in decades of relationship research, this program helps couples understand the patterns that strengthen marriage — and the habits that quietly weaken it.
Through guided exercises and structured conversations, couples will gain practical skills they can apply immediately. * Coming Summer 2026!
Mini Course:
You've Said "I Do"
So What Now?
The Newlywed Transition
The early days of marriage are exciting — and often unexpectedly stretching. You’ve Said “I Do” — So What Now? is a guided mini course designed to help newlyweds navigate the critical transition from wedding day to everyday life.
Inside this experience, couples will learn how to:
- Align expectations and create shared rhythms
- Strengthen communication from the start
- Establish healthy conflict habits early
- Build emotional safety and friendship
- Clarify shared vision and values for the future
Rather than simply “figuring it out,” this course equips couples with intentional tools to lay a strong foundation during their first season of marriage. Because how you begin often shapes how you build.
Hosted inside the Hope System™, this course combines guided reflections, practical exercises, and structured conversations designed to help you move from adjustment to alignment.
This course is ideal for individuals or couples who want to develop a steady inner foundation — one that is not shaken by temporary trials.
Through guided reflection, journaling prompts, and practical application exercises inside the Hope System™, participants will learn how to overcome with clarity, courage, and conviction.
The Practice of Overcoming:
A Mini Course in
Spiritual Resilience
Every marriage and every individual will face adversity. The question is not if challenges will come — but how you will respond when they do.
The Practice of Overcoming is a focused mini course designed to strengthen spiritual resilience and emotional endurance. This experience helps participants develop the mindset, habits, and faith-centered practices needed to navigate hardship without losing hope.
You will explore:
- How adversity shapes identity and growth
- Biblical principles of perseverance and renewal
- Reframing setbacks through faith and purpose
- Building emotional strength during pressure
- Responding instead of reacting when storms arise
Mini Course:
Processor Styles
One of the most common sources of tension in marriage is not disagreement — it’s difference in processing style.
Processor Styles is a practical mini course designed to help couples understand how each spouse thinks, feels, interprets, and responds — especially during stress or conflict.
Participants will discover:
- The difference between internal and external processors
- How timing affects communication
- Why misunderstandings escalate unnecessarily
- How to create space for both processing styles
- Tools for honoring differences without frustration
Rather than labeling one style as “right” or “wrong,” this course helps couples develop mutual understanding and intentional communication patterns.
Inside the Hope System™, couples will complete guided exercises that reveal their processing tendencies and create a shared communication strategy that reduces tension and increases clarity.
Because when you understand how your spouse processes, you stop fighting the difference — and start working with it.
Reach out to us because we’re here to help!
We want to thrive and not just survive. Let us know what you need and we’ll do our best to help.