“Gary and Ann have helped us grow exponentially in our marriage.  Through Marriage Plus we learned about each other, how to communicate more effectively and where God is leading us.  Today we are better prepared for life and ministry together!”

“We loved seeing ministry two-gether.  It is not something we have seen modeled often.  We feel like Marriage Plus changed our future.  Thank you!!”

“Marriage Plus has equipped and prepared us to be able to lead our own small group for couples.  We now have the tools and confidence it takes to help couples in our church build strong marriages.  We are so grateful!”

“Marriage Plus has equipped and prepared us to be able to lead our own small group for couples.  We now have the tools and confidence it takes to help couples in our church build strong marriages.  We are so grateful!”

“Marriage Plus is something that we have prayed for.  At the time we didn’t know it would be Marriage Plus, but God did!  And God has certainly blessed both of us!  We have grown in ministry together as well as in our marriage.  Also, we have found lifelong friends that we are excited to raise our family with.  We are so blessed!”

“Marriage Plus is the best thing that has happened to our marriage since we landed in Denver five years ago.  The course helped provide purpose for our marriage as well as structure and tools to fulfill that purpose at a time when we were figuring out life together.  Combining marriage and ministry was a goal we knew we wanted to pursue but didn’t know how to as newlyweds.  We learned that practicing genuine hospitality is an effective and important ministry.  Gary and Ann provide a loving, disarming example of maintaining unity and fun in marriage while inviting others into their lives and home to know the love of God.”

“We knew that the ministry skills and the heart of ‘serving together as one’ would be essential to our growth as a married couple and to our service for the Kingdom.  The course did not disappoint and we learned so many things that are still with us today!  One of the most valuable lessons we were taught included the ‘conversation triangle’, which helped train us to ask great questions and move a conversation from a superficial level to a deeper level, often opening the door wide for spiritual discussion.  We also learned the value of organizing and being intentional with our time through weekly planning meetings.  We still have these meetings regularly and they are not only an important and practical took, but they also give us the opportunity to check-in with each other both emotionally and spiritually, nourishing the roots of our marriage.  Perhaps above all else, the Marriage Plus course, provided us with the skill set and confidence we needed to feel equipped and ready to do ministry together as a couple.  Since the course, we have been actively involved in a variety of ministries in our current church and we are now hosting our very own Young Marrieds small group in our home.  We continue to look forward to leading this group and to the opportunities in the future to grow this ministry.”

“Marriage Plus has given us a solid foundation for our marriage.  We are so blessed by having had the Wooleys in our lives, by their strong investment and intentional leadership over newly married couples.  They love Jesus and discipling couples.  The content in Marriage Plus is imperative for having a strong marriage and for learning to serve together as a couple.”

“Marriage Plus is, hands down, the best discipleship course we have ever been a part of!  We are so thankful for the amazing foundation it gave us and we continually revisit the concepts we’ve learned.”

“As we began the Marriage Plus course, it proved to be a much larger commitment than we anticipated.  We struggled to make it to weekly meetings and keep up with homework.  I was traveling a lot with my job and it took some major shuffling for us to meet with our group.  I had to re-arrange travel schedules and actually turn down some opportunities with work.  How would we manage committing to three hours a week for over a year?  We completed Marriage Plus almost and I can’t begin to tell you how beneficial it has been to our marriage and in our ministry together.  I truly believe the skills we learned have allowed me to go back to full time ministry as a youth pastor.  Rarely a week goes by that we don’t thank God for this rich experience! It has been invaluable to our lifetime service to the Lord.  We are proud to say that our marriage is a living witness to the joy that God intends marriage to be.”

“The skills training we received through Marriage Plus has become essential to how we do life and ministry as a couple.  When faced with the everyday challenge of making important decisions together, we continually return to a Marriage Plus basic, that listening and empathy is both loving and effective work.  As a couples dedicated to making our marital journey an adventure and not a yawn, Marriage Plus has been for us a perfect investment.”

“The year we spent in Marriage Plus has equipped us to fulfill God’s plan for marriage.  We have a vision for our marriage as a ministry that God can use to use reach others and further His Kingdom.  We learned how to communicate, respect and build each other up which has allowed our love for each other and Jesus to grow.  We continually give glory to God for His work in our marriage and leading us to Marriage Plus.  We pray that this course will one day be available to all newly married couples.”

“We certainly feel blessed to have been able to take the Marriage Plus course early in our marriage.  It strengthened our personal skills in relating to one another and our community and tied those into building convictions, exercising spiritual gifts and embracing a vision for our future.  With this experience, life and ministry as a couple has become more enjoyable, more fulfilling and more glorifying to God.”

“Marriage Plus gave us the foundational tools to communicate better between us and others and gave us a starting point for ministry as a couple.  I think we would not have as rich a marriage as we do without the skills we learned in Marriage Plus.  Marriage Plus is something every young couple should commit to.  Thanks guys!”

“We KNOW that our time in Marriage Plus changed the course of our marriage.  The listening skills, ministry teaching and overall experience, early in our marriage, made a huge difference (and continues to do so) throughout our 30 years of marriage.  We have seen many Marriage Plus couples serve in leadership in their churches or businesses in ways that were influenced by the teaching they had through Marriage Plus.  One exercise that we still use, is painting the picture of the world your spouse is describing.  When you seek first to truly understand your spouse’s world and communicate that back to them, this opens the door for a deeper and more open relationship.  This is a great tool that we use for ourselves and share with other couples in ministry and in some times of fellowship in our home.”

“This course showed us what is important in serving together as a team, which is not to forget the significance of our marriage.  Through tasks and exercises that taught us cooperation, it forced us to discuss several important issues and gave us a foundation for good communication in marriage.  To this day, in our family we use the activities, examples and experiences we went through in the course.  If a fee had been required to participate, we would have called it the best money investment.  We are very grateful for the opportunity to participate in this course!”

“We completed the Marriage Plus course and we taught it to couples in our church.  Even though we were trained in doing ministry and were sharing the Gospel, this course was a very good and practical way for us to learn how to do ministry together as a couple.  When our students finished the course, they were well equipped for building their marriages, for doing evangelism and ministry.”

“Our friends, Gary & Ann Wooley, have given us, the couples we serve and fellowship with and the Church worldwide a great gift by putting together the Marriage Plus course.  They were able to put their fingers on a very strategic aspect of our Christian marriage, how to enjoy each other (Marriage) and serve our Lord together {Plus).  It was deep, practical and very useful.  My wife and I are still using the skills we learned in M+.”

“We especially appreciate learning about planning with listening.  We planned before taking Marriage Plus, but only to put things on our calendars.  Now we have regular weekly dates with listening first and then planning.  The course really helped us to focus on the important things – God, our spouse, our children, our ministry and then our friends.  Each week we try to plan a date night so that we can be out of the house without the children!!”

“We really enjoyed being a part of Marriage Plus.  We have been involved in many other training sessions, classes, etc.  After a time the lectures are forgotten and we go back to our old ways.  Not so with Marriage Plus!  After three years, there are skills that have become a part of our marriage.  The first one is the practice of planning together.  I also shared about our weekly planning times as a couple with another young wife that I mentor.  She said that she could not believe how such a simple thing could make such a big difference.  The other thing is the art of asking questions and listening to each other.  Thank you, Gary & Ann for empowering our marriage and ministry through Marriage Plus!”

“Marriage Plus has been a great opportunity for us as a couple, to learn how to do ministry together while having a great marriage too.  We have had the best training about communication.  We learned how to be good listeners and how to ask better questions.  The role plays that we had during the course were a lot of fun and gave us more experience in how to put the principles into real life.  But the highlight of the course was the weekly planning meetings we had as husband and wife.  The 1½ years that we were practicing this skill were the best in our life together.  It was great to know everything about each other’s schedules/agendas and to feel so deeply about each other’s lives.  We always share this information when we teach others about how to be involved in life and ministry together.  Thank you, Marriage Plus, for coming to Albania to teach us these important skills.  It was such a great opportunity!”

“We are so very excited about those who have completed the Marriage Plus course.  We often say that we think leading M+ is the most effective, life-changing ministry in which we are involved right now.  Our ministry includes reaching leaders and international partnerships, etc. but we absolutely LOVE seeing these young couples equipped for a lifetime of healthy marriage and ministry together.  The thought of having our church full of couples who have successfully completed the course is thrilling.  What else could better set up God’s church for long-lasting impact?  Thank you for developing this course, for bringing it to Albania at much expense to yourselves and others in time and finances, and for walking alongside us from afar as we bring this into our church (and this fall into a sister church).”