Running The Marriage Course
Run The Marriage Course
The Marriage Course is an easy-to-run, practical seven-session course designed to support couples looking for practical support to strengthen their relationship. No expertise is needed to run the course. You may have experience working on your own marriage, or you are passionate to see marriages and family life strengthened in your community. You don’t need to be married to run The Marriage Course, but we do recommend having a married couple on hand for support.
What you need to run The Marriage Course:
The Marriage Course DVD or free downloadable videos, with designated breaks for conversations.
Download on the Marriage Course Builder.
Leaders’ guide with clear instructions on how to host your course.
Download on the Marriage Course Builder.
Guest Journals (2 per couple).
To puchase journals, please reach out to your local Alpha office.
As we watched the series, it has been a breath of fresh air for our community. It is convenient and simple to facilitate. Week by week, we haven’t seen the numbers taper off and in fact, we’ve added couples taking the course. The team has put an outstanding resource together. We anticipate every week being encouraging, strengthening and building on the week before. The is no doubt the pastoral and evangelistic nature of The Marriage Course springboards everyone involved towards a biblically strong marriage.
Ryan (Dubai)
How to run?
The Marriage Course has been developed so that it is easy to run anywhere and by anyone. Here is a step by step ‘to do’ list if you want to get started.
You can find everything you need from tips and training to our new episodes online in our brand new Marriage Course Builder.
Plan
First things first, schedule a start date for your course and find a venue, ideally somewhere with plenty of space to provide privacy for couples.
Register
Next up, head to The Marriage Course Builder and register your course. This will enable you to explore our latest episodes and resources.
Train
On our website you’ll also find training videos and materials for you and your team, these will help get everyone up to speed.
Prepare
Before your first session, you’ll need to get the series online and buy or download Guest Journals for each guest and Leaders’ Guides for your team.
Invite
Finally, get inviting. The Marriage Course is a great opportunity to reach people outside the church walls. Find promotional materials on the Marriage Course Builder.
We’re here to help
Marriage Builder is your online access to the Marriage Course learning centre, and planning tool, team training, and series material. It’s a free resource to support you through your entire Marriage Course experience.
Learning Centre
The Marriage Builder Learning Centre contains a series of videos and articles that will equip you to effectively run the Marriage Courses. These videos and articles are divided into learning modules covering the best practices of running the Courses, so that you’re set up to succeed.
Management and Planning Tool
The Management and Planning Tool helps you schedule your team training, Course sessions, and your Marriage time away. From this tool, you can also invite your team to the digital platform, and access all the promotional materials for your Marriage or Pre-Marriage course. You can also publish your course so that people can find you.
Series Material
In Materials, you can download all the video sessions and scripts for the The Marriage Course and The Pre-Marriage Course. Along with the sessions.
We’ve created resources to help you along every step of the way.
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