Our premarital counseling took place in a cozy room with a cup of coffee and was run by a nice couple who, for some reason, were interested in us and our success as a couple. It was a warm month in May 2002, and only a few weeks were separating us from our wedding.

Each lesson revealed something new about relationships we had seen: the relationship between our parents, our relatives and other people around us.  “What is the reason you’re getting married? What are your expectations of marriage?” These questions were ringing in our ears and honestly, I don’t know if we had the answers.

At one of the meetings our counselors asked us to share a recent conflict situation so that we could solve it (if we’d never had a conflict then we could make one up). Yes! We were learning how to solve conflicts before we got married and those skills are a great help now, 8 years later.

Marriage. What emotions come up when you hear this word?  How would you define marriage? Perhaps your idea of marriage is two people that can’t stand each other and are constantly fulfilling the desires of their mother-in-law? Or perhaps it’s a picture of piled-up laundry, a messy house and unpaid bills?

No matter how you define marriage or what you have experienced yourself, families were created so that each person who lives on Earth would have a place where they would be loved, understood, and supported in any circumstances.

We can’t stay indifferent to the things going around us. Through the walls of our apartments we hear our neighbors yelling at their children.  Wives are unhappy that their husbands aren’t spending time with them and that their husbands aren’t taking care of their families.   Husbands, in turn, are mad at their wives, expecting and requiring superhuman efforts. In-laws want to solve the problems of newlyweds using their own methods and ideas.

Why would we not ask the One who knows everything and who came up with the idea of family? Reality is that only God can answer all our questions.  This is the essence of our ministry. We run our projects in a way not giving the right answers to families but directing them into a relationship with God and supporting them along the way.

Over the last five year we have been able to run family seminars, summer camps for families, counseling married and engaged couples, and now, together with the studio production The Truth About we are working on the video project Let’s talk about family.