Marital Preventative Care

Austin Gardner • February 4, 2023

Join us on Tuesday for the Society of Mentors

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Dear friends

It doesn’t take long in the ministry or on the internet to realize that missionary marriages face unique stress. The number of missionary marriages that end in disaster is shocking. You do not want to be a casualty. 

I found the following quote in a book by Ronald L. Koteskey called Missionary Marriage Issues. Click here to go to the free book. 

 

 “During one year, two divorces occurred in missionary families our church supported. The next year, another divorce occurred. All three divorces involved people 40-60 years of age, one with empty-nesters and two in families with three children at home in each. A single mom in her thirties with two children registered for one of Ron’s courses, and it turned out that while in language school, her husband had left her for a national woman. We received a call to help a couple in their twenties because the wife was considering divorce to marry a national man. As you read this book, you will see that these issues go clear back to the beginning of the modern protestant missionary movement in the eighteenth century.”

Let’s do some preventative care. Get your wife and join the discussion this Tuesday at 9 AM Atlanta time. We will discuss pastoring your wife on the mission field. 

Join in on February 7, 2023, at 9 AM Atlanta time. You will ask questions if you like. I love you and pray for each of you. 

If you are not a member of the Society of Mentors and want more information, click here. 

God bless. I look forward to spending time with you on Tuesday.

Austin

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