Building Up Marriages
Healthy marriages are a lifeblood to the church. They are the cradle from which family is born. They provide a vital witness of God’s love to the world around us. Yet, healthy marriages often need communities of support and encouragement to thrive. These resources are intended to help others as they work to build up the marriages around them.
ACCFS Home PageMarriage Conferences
Connecting. It’s what we do as a society. We connect on Instagram, Facebook, and in our churches and communities. But do we connect with our spouse? ACCFS hosts Cultivating Connections Marriage Conferences annually to help strengthen marriage relationships.
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Marriage Retreats
Time away to invest in your marriage is vital for a healthy, God-honoring marriage. ACCFS has purposed to serve and support the church in this capacity by encouraging couples in teaching, breakouts, and time away from the everyday in a retreat location.
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Laying the Foundation
Accountability Questions For Engaged Couples
This article contains a list of accountability questions for you to review prayerfully before the Lord and with a mature, spiritual mentor or minister.
Learn MorePrepare & Enrich
This assessment is available for any couple (engaged or married) to complete. Prepare is designed for engaged couples whereas Enrich is designed for married couples.
Learn MoreMarriage Inventory
An inventory to assess how your marriage is doing in multiple areas like communication, conflict, and others.
Learn MoreNewly Marriaged Worksheet
As marriage mentors work with newly married couples, this tool is helpful in guiding a discussion several areas.
Learn MoreMentoring Young Couples Webinar
This webinar walks through the mindset, approach, skills, and resources needed to mentor and disciple young couples in the Church.
Watch WebinarGrowing A Strong Marriage
This biblically based series of resources can be used to counsel and encourage premarital couples as well as strengthen and nurture discussion with couples of all ages.
Learn MoreLeaving & Cleaving
Together as One: Leaving & Cleaving
This document will help with the leaving and cleaving process and also provides information and questions to help facilitate conversation. Learn moreLeaving & Cleaving Podcast
In a divine reflection of the gospel, marriage calls us to leave our previous lives, cleave to our spouses, and be a new family. Learn More
Deepening Marriages
Marriage Discussion Aids
These discussion aids are intended to build conversation around common, core issues for couples.
View Discussion AidsCultivating Friendship in Marriage
Cultivating friendship in marriage takes purposeful and intentional action.
Learn MoreKeys to a Healthy Marriage
Our prayer is that this study would draw each couple closer to God and thereby closer to each other.
Learn MoreLittle Ways to Improve Your Marriage
The little actions we do can take on even more power when they matter to your individual spouse.
Learn MoreReflecting on Your Marriage
Questions in this article can help you assess how you are doing in each area and identify areas where you are strong or need to grow.
Learn MoreMaking Your Marriage A Priority Through Seasons of Parenting
As life moves forward, we naturally become focused on what is immediate. This can lead to secondary things becoming our primary focus (Matt. 13:22).
Learn MoreCreating Shared Meaning Webinar
This webinar walks through the richness that shared meaning and purpose can create in a marriage relationship.
Watch WebinarConnection in Marriage Podcast
Marriage is far more than a living arrangement. It is a living relationship which meets a core need we each have for connection.
Listen to PodcastEmotional Connection
Building Emotional Connection Webinar
This webinar looks at these questions and important aspects of deepening your emotional connection with your spouse.
Watch WebinarExploring Your Spouse's Emotional World
What is your attitude toward emotion? What is your spouse’s attitude toward emotion?
Learn MoreMy Emotional Experience Webinar
This webinar discusses how we can better understand our Emotional World.
Watch WebinarVulnerability in Marriage Webinar
This webinar looks at how the characteristics of knowing, trust, safety, and consistency can have an impact on our level of vulnerability.
Working Through Difficulty
Marriage Motivational Statement
Vision, Reality, Equip and Act are just a few components of this marriage motivation statement.
View StatementThe Marital Drift Assessment
This brief assessment is designed to gauge the emotional closeness within your marriage.
View AssessmentConflict Resolution in Marriage
This article has several areas to consider with your fiancé/spouse within the topic of Conflict Resolution Skills in Marriage.
Learn MoreRebuilding Trust In a Relationship
Rebuilding trust in a relationship can be difficult, painful, and at times confusing. However, the journey is worth the pain when it leads to restoration and transformation of a relationship.
Learn MoreBasic Conflict Resolution Rules
Utilize these ground rules for good conflict resolution and also good problem solving.
Learn More11 Rules for Respect & Open Communication in Relationships
Learn the 11 rules for respect and open communication in marriage in this link.
Learn MoreHow to Support Spouses of Sexual Infidelity
This document provides an understanding of common reactions to the betrayal of a spouse sexual acting out as well as consider strategies to support and encourage them along their healing journey.
Learn MoreRestoration Attempts in Marriage Podcast
This podcast teaches, using very practical tips, how to steer our conversations back on track.
Listen to PodcastAbuse in Marriage Podcast
This podcast series unpacks what abuse in marriage looks like and walks us through the daunting and tricky task of responding to abusive marital situations.
Listen to PodcastSexual Betrayal
Helping Those Healing From Sexual Betrayal Webinar
This webinar equips helpers to support victims of sexual betrayal, guiding them through the signposts of healing. Learn moreRecovering from Sexual Betrayal Podcast
This podcast series walks us through six signposts on the road to recovery from sexual betrayal. Learn more