Achieving God*s Design for Marriage: Couples Together Growing Toward Oneness

This comprehensive curriculum for marriage enrichment consists of 328 pages chock full of material to help those who teach and enrich marriages. This manual can be used as a guide for leaders who conduct in-depth marriage workshops at churches, conference centers, retreat settings, colleges and Sunday School classes.

This resource offers a three-part strategy for growth: Biblical instruction (where good, practical Biblical content is taught), small group discussion (where couples discuss and help one another apply the principles taught) and private couple sharing (where couples make decisions about how the subject material will be applied in their own relationship).

Eleven chapters address topics such as how to build better communication, how to control anger, how to improve joint decision making, how to enhance physical and spiritual intimacy, how to set goals, and how to develop relationship skills.

Besides the actual teaching material there is a chapter detailing how to plan a weekend retreat, appendices for overhead transparency masters, seminar/retreat schedules, checklist for retreat preparation, TIPS for group discussion leaders, and even menus and food buying lists if you have to arrange for your own meals at a retreat center.

Since their marriage in 1966, Harold and Bette Gillogly have been involved in ministering to couples in various ways. They became "official" in 1983 when they founded GTO (Growing Toward oneness) Family Ministries. Since then, they have led hundreds of retreats, conferences, seminars and counseling sessions for men, women and married couples. Their great desire is to see God at work in couples' lives enabling them to obey His principles.

Harold earned his masters degree in (Christian education from Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver Colorado. Bette earned a degree in Christian education from Appalachian Bible College in Bradley, West Virginia. They have three married children and six grandchildren.

In 1993, Harold and Bette developed Achieving God's Design for Marriage, a practical, Biblical marriage enrichment curriculum based on their years of experience. Their new book, Experiencing Oneness, an interactive Biblical marriage study for couples, is now available, as well as a 4-part audio tape series on Experiencing Sexual Intimacy.