The Complete Guide to Marriage Mentoring: Connecting Couples to Build Better Marriages
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
A comprehensive resource to help churches build a thriving marriage mentoring program Les and Leslie Parrott are passionate about how marriage mentoring can transform couples, families, and entire congregations.
The Complete Guide to Marriage Mentoring includes life-changing insights and essential skills for
Practical guidelines help mentors and couples work together as a team, agree on outcomes, and develop skills for the marriage mentoring process. Appendixes offer a wealth of additional resources and tools.
An exhaustive resource for marriage mentorship in any church setting, this guide also includes insights from interviews with church leaders and marriage mentors from around the country.“The time is ripe for marriage mentoring, and this book is exactly what we need.” — Gary Smalley, author of The DNA of Relationships
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- Provides a complete guide to becoming a marriage mentor
- Helps churches of any size to provide healthy marriages
- Includes three major sections: The Big Picture on Marriage Mentoring, The Marriage Mentoring Triad, and The Essential Skills for Marriage Mentoring
The Big Picture on Marriage Mentoring
- What Marriage Mentoring Is and Isn't
- Can Anyone Be a Marriage Mentor?
- Common Pitfalls of Beginning Marriage Mentors
- The Boomerang Effect of Marriage Mentoring
The Marriage Mentoring Triad
- Preparing: Mentoring Engaged and Newlywed Couples
- Maximizing: Mentoring Couples from Good to Great
- Repairing: mentoring Couples in Distress
The Essential Skills for Marriage Mentoring
- Building Rapport
- Walking in Another Couple's Shoes
- Working as a Team
- Agreeing on Outcomes
- Asking Meaningful Questions
- Listening Aggressively
- Fielding Any Question They Throw at You
- Telling Your Stories
- Praying Together
- Staying Sharp and Refreshed
- Being Yourself and Going with the Flow
Top Highlights
“So here goes. We define a marriage mentor as a relatively happy, more experienced couple purposefully investing in another couple to effectively navigate a journey that they have already taken.” (Page 30)
“The purpose of marriage mentoring is to lovingly invest in the preparation, maximization, and restoration of lifelong marriages by walking alongside couples who are less experienced than their mentors.” (Page 33)
“(1) identifying with the couple, (2) establishing credibility with them, and (3) monitoring your interest in them.” (Page 100)
“Rapport in a mentoring relationship is built and sustained on conveying personal warmth” (Page 99)
“what researchers have identified as the ‘duration of marriage effect” (Page 59)
I can't imagine a pastor who would not want to use this outstanding resource for establishing a mentoring ministry. The Parrotts have crafted a program that holds the potential for strengthening marriages through an entire congregation.
—John C. Maxwell, Author of Developing the Leader within You
Les and Leslie know firsthand the ins and outs of setting up an effective mentoring ministry. They've made it easy to practice an idea that is long overdue ... the Parrotts' marriage mentoring curriculum is a must.
—H. Norman Wright, Founder of Christian Marriage Enrichment
Les and Leslie Parrott have produced an important guide for both pastors and mentoring couples. They are national pioneers of the new field of marriage mentoring.
—Michael J. McManus, Author of Marriage Savers