Imagine getting married in Perth, Australia having been baptised in the Indian Ocean two weeks earlier. Sounds amazing! I could never have guessed that this would happen when I first met Lee and Bonnie eighteen months ago in London at a FamilyLife ‘A Day Together’ seminar. Lee and Bonnie introduced themselves at the end of […]
Introducing Toucan – an exciting new and unique App that helps you build a happier, healthier relationship so you can thrive together. Toucan brings practical relationship tools together in a fun way with video clips from couples. These are ordinary, honest people sharing real stories of what’s worked for them, as well as their normal […]
Familylife are so thrilled to have trained four more facilitator couples this April. We had a fantastic time sharing the principles and vision of Familylife along with the ‘how to’s of preparing a talk. It was very exciting to bring together the trainers, the existing team and this bunch of newbies. Karen and Etiene Van […]
What makes you feel most loved? Words of Affirmation? Acts of Service? Receiving Gifts? Quality Time? Physical Touch? The way we express and receive love is unique to each person. In his book “The Five Love Languages®”, author Gary Chapman showcases this through the five emotional love languages mentioned above: Words, Acts, Gifts, Time, and […]
Naomi and I had been married for around 5 years when we began the Together course with a slightly younger, recently married couple. I think all of us would say we found the course really helpful on three levels; we got to know our respective spouses better, we got to know the other couple better, […]
The FamilyLife team are looking for people who are interested in joining them for a 235 mile adventure AND helping raise funds to help strengthen families in the UK. We are organising a cycling challenge that will take riders from London to Paris on 24-29 August 2016. We are also looking from some support crew to […]
Like a fuel boost. A Day Together has been a great additive to our marriage. A day to talk a bit deeper and reflect on where we are going with communication and purpose.” This is what we love to hear! Twenty six couples attended our recent A Day Together (ADT) event in Rochester, one of […]
‘…DON’T FIX IT.’ That’s received wisdom and makes perfect sense, for our back garden gate. It’s wonky and the latch no longer connects, but who cares? A handy cord keeps kids and dogs securely locked in. Most of the time. Applying the ‘don’t-fix’ rule to relationships seems to work okay. We rock along in the […]
Imagine you are in the middle of telling a story when suddenly the person you are talking to jumps in and starts telling their own story. Just like that. You didn’t even finish what you were going to say… Communication leap-frogging is a form of interrupting. And it’s very annoying for the person who is […]
We recently trained several new couples from the UK, Malta and Spain …and what a great bunch of smiley, fun people they are! The couples were training to become FamilyLife Facilitators so that they can go back to their communities and make a difference. They worked hard but the photos below also show how much […]
