Marriage Matters Fall 2026

Marriage Ministry Team

We kick off the class with introductions, an overview of the course, and a discussion of expectations. This session sets the stage for the journey ahead and helps couples connect with each other and with the teaching team.

Jon and Beth Weber

Jon and Beth Weber walk couples through healthy boundaries for communication, the 4 T's of Timing, Tone, Technique, and Truth, how men and women often process conversations differently, and steps for empathetic listening.

Dave and Betty Paul

Dave and Betty Paul guide couples through how their Family of Origin shapes who they are and how they relate to their spouse, a personality assessment covering four personality styles and how each is recharged and stressed, and helping couples learn to speak the language that makes their spouse feel most loved with Gary Chapman's five love languages.

Jon and Beth Weber

Jon and Beth Weber unpack what Scripture teaches about marriage as a perfect, permanent, dependent, and sacrificially loving partnership — contrasted with the world's competing views — and walk through marriage as a covenant rather than a contract. The session covers God's design from Genesis, the three biblical types of love (agape, phileo, and eros) that create oneness, and practical steps for leaving and cleaving to strengthen the marriage relationship.

Bill and Jenn Deitrick

Bill and Jenn Deitrick walk couples through a biblical foundation for handling conflict and anger, the five common patterns couples fall into when confronting disagreement, and a Crucial Conversations framework for staying in healthy dialog, restoring safety, and pulling back from the brink when a conversation starts to escalate. The session closes with a look at forgiveness and the difference between normal, everyday conflict and deeper conflict that calls for outside help.