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National Marriage Week USA
Dear Friends of Marriage,
You are an important part of changing the tide of
public thinking and behavior about marriage! National Marriage Week USA (Feb.
7-14) provides a positive way to actually help reverse the alarming decline
of marriage in your church or your town during the week leading up to
Valentine's Day.
Something BRAND NEW! This week National
Marriage Week USA launched a free FUN video clip series-the Affordable
Wedding Project-with stories about how to help couples create more affordable
weddings, since clergy say they are seeing increased cohabitation while
couples feel they must save up for today's overly expensive wedding events.
Watch and share these compelling short
90-second and 5-minute free videos that tell alternative ideas--one couple
put together a beautiful wedding for $8000, another tell of their intimate,
heartwarming wedding inside the home of a friend, one woman put together a
wedding in one week for her friends who had neither time or money. Watch and
share at
http://www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org/affordableweddings.
Latest news! We are new to Twitter. Please
follow us https://twitter.com/MarriageWeekUSA
National Marriage Week USA has been
featured many times on "Fox and Friends" and will be featured this Jan. 31 and
Feb. 3 on the daytime talk show "Home and Family" on the Hallmark Channel.
Also listen to a recent BreakPoint from Eric
Metaxas about the need for our annual public relations campaign and how
marriage is a major solution in the current income inequality debate. Listen at
http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/24363
Plus the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
endorsed us and sent out a formal letter to all U.S. Bishops to encourage
parishes to participate in National Marriage Week USA (Feb. 7-14) The
National Association of Evangelicals and the Colson Center also give strong
endorsements, as do all well known marriage curriculum providers-- listed on our
National Calendar.
Just this week was also published an excellent
article--chock full of statistics and what we can do about the decline of
marriage-- plus a Q & A with Sheila Weber, NMW executive director, who shares
her personal thoughts about how to help rescue more marriages and assist the
younger generation, which is increasingly choosing cohabitation.
http://sonomachristianhome.com/2014/01/national-marriage-week-antidote-to-poverty-and-nation-builder
WHAT CAN YOU DO? You can ask your clergy
to preach and teach about marriage on Sunday, February 9th, and use the week to
gather a new team who would bring a Sunday School marriage class or home group
to your church or town-even host a special speaker or class at a YMCA or public
library, a great way to reach out to your community! There are a wide variety of
curricula ideas from existing, trusted marriage courses, most are easy -to-use
by layman, available at
http://www.NationalMarriageWeekUSA.org. Plus tips for date nights, marriage
stories, a Tool Kit (PSAs, banner ads and a press release) and a City Event Kit
for you to become a leader in your town.
The ONLY Online National Marriage
Calendar-free to everyone-- is also hosted at
http://www.NationalMarriageWeekUSA.org. You can list or locate for free ANY
marriage class or activity all year long. Help your own marriage or reach out
and help someone else!
Thanks everyone!
Yours for strengthening marriage!
Sheila Weber
Executive Director, National Marriage Week USA (Feb. 7-14)
www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org
Sheila@nationalmarriageweekusa.org
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