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“After having been married for only one year,
we did not see hope for our marriage.”
The Crisis
We see the devastating effects of hurting and broken marriages and families all around us today – in every neighborhood and community! Marriages and families are dying every day. And this is not confined to those outside the Body of Christ. Many Christian marriages and families are struggling as well.
We have seen personally how quickly and easily a marriage can break apart. After being married in November of 1992 in Houston, Texas, we immediately began to have problems. In the summer of 1993 we were on the brink of divorce because of Glen’s adulterous relationship with “another woman”. After having been married for only one year, we did not see hope for our marriage. God brought us down to our lowest point in order to bring us back up to Himself.
Glen surrendered his life to Jesus Christ and began his personal relationship with God during this early period of struggle. Then God began to show us things that needed to be worked on and changed. We agreed to stay together and asked God to change us. It took the next 5 years to get beyond the emotional pain of that first year. But after much work, many prayers, and daily communication, God took the word “divorce” out of our vocabulary.
“How could we refuse the call of the One who had saved our marriage?”
The Call to FamilyLife
We attended our first FamilyLife “Weekend to Remember” marriage conference in the Fall of 1999 in San Antonio, Texas. After this great weekend conference, we finally understood, for the first time, God’s blueprint for marriage. We knew that more people needed to know about this ministry and all the tools available to strengthen a marriage and family. So we started volunteering for FamilyLife by simply promoting upcoming marriage conferences and leading small-group Bible studies. But God wanted more!
Early in 2000, we began to wrestle with what we believed was a calling from God into full-time service. At that time, God made it very clear to us that He had put us through all the heartache of our first year of marriage so that we could minister to other couples. And how could we refuse the call of the One who had saved our marriage?
So, later that year, we began the process of applying to become missionary staff with FamilyLife. After two and a half years of raising our initial support, we moved to Little Rock, Arkansas in the summer of 2003 to serve at the headquarters of FamilyLife.
Each year as we celebrate our wedding anniversary, we thank God for reconciling our relationship and allowing us the privilege of raising our three children. Because of God’s grace to us, we are able to tell others about God’s plan, His purpose, and His power for reconciling their marriage relationship, as He did with ours. We long to see couples restored to His original blueprint – a covenant relationship!
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