It’s nothing you can just be satisfied with,” Eileen Mitchell said of marriage.
“(You must) continue to learn about your spouse and how to make that marriage strong so you can have strong families and then have strong churches,” said Mitchell, an associate in the office of discipleship and family ministries for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM).
That’s why resources like marriage conferences, Bible studies, articles and books are important supplements to one’s own hard work.
And it’s the same reason Gov. Bob Riley proclaimed February as Healthy Marriage Month across the state.
“We recognize the special place of marriage in American society and in American hearts. … We honor marriage as the extraordinary vow that ordinary people make and guide their lives by every day,” Riley said in his proclamation.
Riley’s proclamation the past few years has been in keeping with the goals of the Alabama Community Healthy Marriage Initiative, a five-year initiative (2006–2011) to provide churches, families and state institutions with the resources necessary for promoting healthy marriages and homes.
Upcoming marriage conferences in Alabama include
• Let’s Get Real Conference, sponsored by Stained Glass Ministries, at Community Life Church, Roanoke, Feb. 19–20 and Liberty Church, Birmingham, April 9–10;
• Focus on Marriage, sponsored by Focus on the Family, at Vaughn Park Church of Christ in Montgomery on Feb. 27;
• Marriage Celebration, sponsored by the SBOM, at Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center in Talladega March 12–13; and
• Fireproof My Marriage at First Baptist Church, North Mobile, in Saraland March 19–20.
For more marriage resources and events, contact Mitchell at 1-800-264-1225, Ext. 221, or emitchell@alsbom.org or visit www.lifeway.com/menu/?id=200740. (TAB)
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