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Genesis 224 is a biblically-based ministry serving the need for in-depth marriage preparation and marriage mentoring. It’s a ministry that effectively addresses issues and situations springing from the spiritual, moral, social, and cultural environment––not only of the world but also of that within the church. Founded by Mike and Jewel Williamson, it serves couples and the Church by:

Providing premarital preparation--a marriage preparation course--to engaged couples.

Providing a biblically-based in-depth premarital preparation workbook for couples to use on their own or with pastors, counselors, or mentors.

Assisting pastors and leaders to implement new, or to improve existing, marriage preparation courses and marriage ministries.

Providing support for marriages through individual mentoring and group marriage meetings. 

Adhering to the common tenants of the Christian faith.

 

Engaged couples need premarital preparation and premarital counseling now more than ever. Modern married couples face issues unheard of in past generations. Society has changed enormously during the last four decades; it has shed all affinity to biblical faith and life. Nevertheless, God’s purpose and design for marriage hasn’t changed.  Premarital counseling and premarital preparation must take into consideration the culture in which couples now grow up in. At the same time, however, effective premarital counseling and preparation must point the engaged couple to the true origins and purpose for marriage.  

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The Genesis224 comprehensive marriage preparation course

Our premarital course significantly increases the number of successful marriages by helping premarital couples to evaluate realistically their own, and their prospective mate’s, relationship to God and their and their mate’s character, motives, and maturity 

 

Build their relationship on a personal faith in Jesus Christ. They will explore issues such as their view of God, their submission to God and to the authority of the Bible, and their state of spiritual growth.

Discover more about each other's personal life and history. The book covers childhood and family relationships and traumatic experiences.

Have enlightening dialog about character, personality issues, habits, beliefs, past relationships, and history with such things as lingering sins and other character issues that may be problematic. We cover things that go by the popular names of self-esteem, self-respect, boundaries, and other such emotional-mental mindsets. 

One of our goals is for the couple to know themselves and each other as clearly and honestly as possible and for them to determine if their walk with God, if their faith and character, makes each of them marriage material.

Another goal is to elevate marriage to the sacred position that God has placed it. This course emphasizes the sacredness of marriage and aims to inculcate this view of marriage into the premarital couple’s mindset.

Premarital preparation and premarital counseling can’t guarantee a lifelong great relationship, but it does put a couple in a much better starting position.  Neither will such preparation eliminate life’s bumps in the road, but it can give a “heads up” on where those bumps might be, and it can help a couple learn how to deal with them better. 

With Building Your Marriage Upon the Rock premarital workbook, the couple will:

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