By David Harper Good missionaries know this one reality wherever they live and work: If you want to influence people with the gospel you’ve got to speak their language and build bridges accordingly. But that foundational truth is often forgotten when it comes to marriage! We need …
Dear YWAM family! I once met a young evangelistic frontier YWAM missionary, with a heart for the unreached and a strong calling over his life from God to missions. He was more than ready to find someone to share life with, as many ywammers are, and we …
“…but what if the wife becomes rebellious and disobedient?” An honest question from one the husbands among the students. “My father in-law told my husband to hit me; our culture teaches that it is necessary.” confesses one of the female students. The Family Ministries School …
a Workbook on Cross-Cultural Marriage by Janet Fraser-Smith This Workbook is designed to help you describe yourself and to broaden your understanding about how individuals from differing backgrounds approach life. This book will assist in answering the questions : Is this person right for me ?In …
By Noémie & Loïc Marsh Talking to various friends around our age, we discovered that they usually don’t seek or even appreciate having their parents enter the loop of their own marriage. What provokes the mindset of avoiding our parents when they approach the sphere …
Many of us have been there. One of our children will get married, so what advice is best? It’s reasonable to say that our children have grown up hearing us talk about relationships and marriage, helped us run couples courses and listened to us speak …
By Guy Zeller I still remember when carrying her as a little baby, and now the time had come for me to give her away! Noémie and Loïc started their official relationship just after we left Switzerland to spend a year in Ivory Coast, so we …
by Mike and Yasmine Fischer We had a wonderful weekend with 12 couples taking part in the first TSM ever being offered in Sweden. Like the participants, my wife and I didn’t really know much about what the weekend would entail. We had heard through …
Do you find yourself in a marriage that is filled with pain and conflict? Does it seem like you just “don’t love each other anymore?” Are you at the impasse of “irreconcilable differences?” Does it seem like all hope for a loving relationship has evaporated? …
by Kenny Jackson In 2012, I started asking audiences of young Christian singles to help me write a definition for the boyfriend/girlfriend dating relationship. My logic was motivated by the notion that to engage in an activity that one is not able to define makes …