Marriage Works is a common-sense premarriage education programme.

Couples wanting the keys to build great marriages can read the book and watch the DVD by themselves but working through it with mentors helps get the best out of it and brings a new dimension to premarriage education.

What are mentors?

Mentors are simply couples who have good marriages, a passion to help couples getting married to build the best marriages possible and willingness to share their wisdom and experience in this area.

The mentoring team at LIFE has grown from 6 couples in 1999 to 25 mentor couples today. Our experience with hundreds of couples over that period, indicates that mentoring is best if done once a week for 6 weeks in the confidential setting such of the mentors' home.

It's not about age but about your track record!

We suggest that mentors don't need to be any particular age but should simply have been married long enough to demonstrate a good marriage and provide credibility through the experience they have as a married couple.

We can't provide or recommend mentors outside of LIFE - the church that this programme has grown from - but we suggest couples heading for marriage and wanting mentors to help them with Marriage Works, should seek the help of the local church they can relate to most easily.

Hopefully that enquiry will produce mentors who have the confidence of the Vicar, Priest, Minister or Pastor of the church as mentors and who have a passion to help them build the best marriage possible.

How this Marriage Works mentoring programme works best, is contained in the Mentors Guide that Owen & Pamela have written to share their practical experience and knowledge with mentors they are unlikely to ever meet.

That Guide is part of the Mentors Pack that mentors can order through the Resources page on this website.

Mentors can also email us at info@marriage-works.org for answers to any questions they have about the Guide or this programme.