Partners News No. 5 - October 2000
By Dave Percival
Featured Partner - Marriage Resource
Marriage Resource was founded in 1994 and seeks to help anyone married or considering marriage and now provides one of the UK's leading networks of marriage workers and support organisation.
10 Branches strategically located throughout the UK support marriage through school work, marriage preparation, enhancement and helping marriages in difficulties, the latter through Marriage First Aid, Marriage Supporters or counselling.
Approximately 80 national and local organisations carrying out similar work have affiliated to marriage resource.
In 1997 Marriage Resource launched National Marriage Week, an initiative that has not only grown from strength to strength in the UK, but last year started to spread round the globe with New Zealand taking up the concept and the challenge.
Marriage Resource runs an Annual Conference where delegates can meet others involved in marriage work and learn more about resources so ensuring the spread of current best practice as well as providing and strengthening the contact network for the workers on the ground.
Church Membership of Marriage Resource has just been launched to help churches provide marriage preparation and marriage enhancement for their members, for which there is no fee.
A Newsletter and also a Prayer Letter are published three times a year, and more details of their work and resources can be found at their website at http://www.marriageresource.org.uk.
2-in-2-1 is proud to be an Associate member of Marriage Resource, and if any partners haven't already signed up, then we commend their work warmly to you.