The Life Marriage Mentoring Ministry was formed as an additional enhancement to the ministry for married couples.  The vision for the ministry is to strengthen the foundation of marriage by empowering couples and building of relationships through mentoring.  The purpose of the ministry is to walk alongside couples with the goal to enhance and improve the quality of marriages.

The mentor couples are not counselors, but guides into this adventure called marriage.  The couples range from those married for a few years with small children; to mid-life couples raising teenagers; and finally more seasoned couples enjoying their empty nests.  Longevity no longer ensures the "until death we do part." All couples experience difficult times in their relationships, and having someone who can help through the rough patches of life and marriage is the basis for the mentoring ministry.  We know that the thief (Satan) comes to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10), and that includes our marriages.  If Satan can chip away the body of Christ, by destroying marriages and families, he rejoices and has the victory.  We have to defeat Satan by any means necessary.  Spouses remember a few basic scriptures:

• Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord (NIV, Ephesians 5:22)
• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (NIV, Ephesians 5:25).
• In your anger do not sin: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry. (NIV, Ephesians 4:26).

Corporate America offers mentoring programs to assist new employees to become successful members of the workforce.  At the workplace, each fresh-faced employee is assigned another seasoned employee who can help the individual to make his or her way through the snares of the business world.  We at the Life want to embrace the mentoring aspect of Corporate America, but with the focus on marriage and the family as a whole unit.  When couples experience life difficulties, negative issues flow downward to the children; which creates added pressures for the entire family.

As previously stated, the mentors are not counselors, but we want to put the counseling ministry out of business by stepping in to assist couples before problems escalate to a more serious level.  Mentors are bound by a requirement to ensure confidentially of mentees.  The ultimate goal of the ministry is to continue to build relationships while ensuring that Christ is at the center. 

God Bless,

The Life Marriage Mentors

There is nothing like enjoying a rich satisfying and joyous marriage! Does that mean that you won't encounter some ups and downs? Absolutely not! But it does mean that you and your spouse can learned tools that can empower the two of you to experience a great marriage that will endure any ups and downs that may come your way and still come out on the other side stronger and more in love than ever.

God has set us up for success in our marriages if we are wiling to be obedient to do what He tells us to do from His Word. Married for Life is a ministry designed to encourage, equip, educate and enrich marriages for success! It is all about us coming together as a community of believing Christian couples to grow and support each other while having fun doing it. I believe it is possible to create your own "Happily Ever After" by understanding and nurturing the uniqueness of what the two of you as a couple have together.

Married for Life Ministry is offers the right building blocks to motivate you in developing your best marriage yet! Joining in the fun activities, the conversations, the fellowships, and the learning studies to do just that.  My husband and I look forward to meeting each of you and to hopefully minister and inspire you to embrace all that God has for you and your spouse to love and celebrate in this thing called MARRIAGE!

Directors Keith & Nashawn Turner

JOIN US FOR A MARRIED FOR LIFE MEET AND GREET:  The Married for Life "Meet & Greet" is scheduled for Friday, June 19, 7:30 - 9:30pm at The Life. Come out for great fun, fellowship, and light refreshments with other couples. Find out what the ministry has in store for your marriage! Learn about the vision of the ministry. Hear about upcoming activities. Create a vision for your marriage; Understand what a "Marriage Bucket List" is and jumpstart enjoying your marriage. Meet and connect with Marriage Mentors. REGISTER TODAY online. POC: Keith & Nashawn Turner at marriedforlife@thelifedc.org

This is your opportunity as a member to hear about all that is happening and to ask questions.

The Kingmakers Ministry is made up of The Men of The Life Church 15 years of age and older. We are a group of spirit-filled energetic men that encourage one another through the love of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

We believe in the fact that through Jesus we come unto the Father. A strong Godly man at home, a "Kingmaker", will bring and keep his family in line with God's will. Joshua 24:15 says....But as for me and my house we will worship The Lord.

kingmakers@thelifedc.org