Family Life Canada sees investing in marriages as the key to strong churches▶️

Helping marriages thrive is a focus of Family Life Canada and the National Director will be speaking about that this weekend at Missionfest Manitoba. 

"We want to bring help and hope to every family in Canada," says Brent Trickett, the National Director of Family Life Canada. "We do that by helping families flourish and live on mission and also by partnering with churches to strengthen the marriages in their community."

Trickett will be leading a breakout session on Saturday during Missionfest called 'Equipping Your Church to Build a Strong Marriage Ministry.'

"In the breakout session, we're going to talk about what does it look like to have a healthy, strong marriage ministry and how do we get started in doing that."

A recent study found some surprising facts, including the fact that 72 per cent of churches across North America don't have a marriage ministry to offer their congregation. A second stat is that 85 per cent of churches spend zero dollars of their budget on helping people in their marriages. 

"One of the things that we really want to change in Canada is a real investment into our marriages, because strong marriages make strong families, which makes strong churches. We believe strong marriage and strong families are one of the greatest apologetics in this generation."