Dating Coaching
We believe that God’s design is for you to be fulfilled and whole before you meet your mate. And you don’t have to be unhappy while you’re waiting, because “Single” isn’t a 4-letter word. One key is to focus on becoming a person who would be a good mate to your future partner.
When you coach with us, we’ll work with you through individual sessions that focus on:
Help overcoming disappointment of past relationships
Guidance in forgiveness, healing prayer, and experiencing the presence of God.
Gaining confidence in your values and desires so that you don’t compromise in your dating activities
Getting clarity on what you are looking for in a mate, and what you’re NOT looking for.
Reference: Date or Soul Mate, by Neil Clark Warren
Testimonial: Our road to marriage was one heck of a beautiful and wild ride, and Bob and Mavis were with us every step of the way. We went from friendship, to denying any attraction (and trying to hook one of us up with our sibling, true story!) to working through our dating season as two strong, independent individuals learning to see and prefer the other--beyond the emotional high of falling in love.
Bob and Mavis gave us a safe place to have honest, raw and authentic conversations about who we were as individuals, and what we were beginning to see in each other. Having Bob and Mavis walk that road with us was an incredible blessing, and helped set us up for a successful, fulfilled and deliriously happy marriage.
Having Bob and Mavis as your mentors is one of the best decisions you could make.
PREMARITAL COACHING
Marriage is an opportunity to take responsibility and bring life to your partner instead of seeing them as a way to get your needs met. We offer a safe, sacred place to have an honest look at all the issues you’ll be facing after you’re married. These sessions offer helpful tools that can be carried forward for a lifetime in a powerful, loving marriage.
We leverage the SYMBIS assessment and other tools to address areas such as:
Family of origin and unspoken expectations
Sexuality
Finance
Children
How your personalities mesh
Conflict and communication
Having fun, and much more…
Testimonial: Bob and Mavis have been friends, teachers, mentors, counselors, provided crisis intervention and have been the best guide on our relationship journey that we could ask for. We sought out their leading as we attempted to progress our relationship from friendship to something more. We wanted to be intentional about the process and needed clarity on whether to pursue a dating relationship or just remain friends.
With an non-judgmental, honest, loving approach, along with hard truth gained from many years of experience, Bob and Mavis helped us navigate these tricky waters and decide what was best for us both. They walked alongside us every step of the way, helping us separate feelings from reality, set goals, make plans, and decide the why, when and how of it all.
We are now celebrating our third year of marriage and expecting our first child and Bob and Mavis continue to be an invaluable part of our lives. From our pre-dating relationship through dating and marriage, from our low points to high, Bob and Mavis have been so integral and important to our story. They have loved us like their own and we are forever thankful.
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Marriage Tune-up
People often say to us, “we want the kind of marriage you have.” If they only knew what it took for us to get here!
Through these sessions we’ll share the testimony of our 45 years together so far, encourage you, and model how to grow a fulfilling marriage that lasts a lifetime. We’ll draw from our own life experiences and give you straightforward tools that facilitate: Mostly we draw from Biblican scripture and promises of God giving us the most incredibly solid foundation and self confidence to build upon. Your heart being secure is the best place to begin. God HAS all the answers.
Transparency
Intimacy and loving conversations
Healthy communication
Conflict resolution while being loving and safe
Healthy boundaries
True forgiveness and reconciliation
And more...
Reference: Love after Marriage, by Barry & Lori Byrne, Emotionally Healthy Relationships devotional
Testimonial: In our first two and a half years of marriage Bob and Mavis have been an integral part of our adjustment and growth as a couple. Getting hitched in our 30’s meant adjusting from a well-honed single-kind-of-life to sharing life with each other. This included dealing with walls, habits and blind spots in the areas of money, intimacy, spirituality, time management, family and friends. Bob and Mavis gave us perfectly timed relationship advice during our catch-ups, and the books they suggested have hugely impacted our own personal emotional and spiritual health. Bob and Mavis are the real deal.
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Marriage In Crisis
We’ve personally suffered through crisis in our marriage, and have experienced God’s healing and victory. We can coach you through the heartbreak of broken trust that rips through the fiber of your marriage. There is simply nothing God cannot heal or repair if you are both willing to let Him take you through grief and healing.
If this speaks to you, please listen.. this is not the time to be faint of heart or passive. Your pain won’t just “go away” or get better on its own. We can offer you help and healing with God’s guidance and loving support. We’ll minister and pray with you through:
Reconciliation
Forgiveness
Healing prayer for root issues
Healthy ways and tools for improving communication
Learning to trust and be honest and open again
Testimonial: "Bob and Mavis counseled us through a very difficult time in our marriage. Their lifetime of wisdom and experience gave us hope as well as practical tools that we still use to this day. We would highly recommend working with them to strengthen your marriage or to help through any crisis. We love them!"
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The Way Inn
The Way Inn is a guided retreat experience that balances relaxation, healing prayer, deliverance, baptism if you are ready, loving and possibly challenging ministry and fun!
We offer you a setting where you can focus on God away from the everyday “normal.” Come away and enjoy God’s goodness, and fall more in love with Him and with each other. This is a safe environment to resolve conflict, find a place of shelter and peace, and to receive prayer and healing.
Sabbath is an essential, life-giving rhythm that every soul needs. So take you shoes off and rest as you sit on the beach warming yourself by the campfire. We’ll make a place for you … a way in … a time and place to get in touch with the heart of Father God for your life.