Preparing For Marriage: OCBF Counseling Ministry
Preparing for Marriage
Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship’s Counseling Department offers an exciting and interactive Premarital Counseling Ministry.
Premarital counseling is designed to:
Premarital Topics:
Registration
When determining your session, we advise beginning your first class at least six months prior to your anticipated wedding date. Please allow for the last class to be at least 12 weeks before the wedding date. Sessions are 8 – 10 weeks and are offered four times a year, classes are weekly.
Session Availability
Winter Session: Second Tuesday/Saturday in January
Spring Session: Last Tuesday/ Saturday in March
Summer Session: Second Tuesday in June (Saturday Class subject to availability)
Fall Session: Last Tuesday/ Saturday in August
Tuesday Classes: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. or Saturday Classes: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
COST: per couple: $75.00- OCBF member; $100.00- non- members
The fee includes the cost of Preparing for Marriage workbook, Personality Assessment and additional marriage resource materials. Space is limited. Please register early.
Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship’s Counseling Department offers an exciting and interactive Premarital Counseling Ministry.
Premarital counseling is designed to:
- Help you understand your past and family history and share it with your partner.
- Understand the expectations you and your partner bring into marriage.
- Provide a framework to ask challenging questions about your relationships and assist you in discerning God’s will.
- Examine and discuss biblical truths to learn God’s principles of marriage.
- Address issues for those who were previously married and/or have children,
- Develop a spiritual discipline that will be one of the keys to help your marriage in years to come.
- Become confident and secure in your decision to marry (or perhaps not to marry).
- Identify your strengths and weakness and much more.
Premarital Topics:
- Introductory session: orientation, personality assessment and intake process.
- Expectations in Marriage: deal with issues and family histories, Learn to accept, adjust and abandon expectations.
- Marriage-God’s Plan: receiving your mate as God’s provision, leaving behind your dependence and allegiance to parents, cleaving solely to your mate and becoming one flesh.
- Making My Decision: helping you move from “Do I?” to “I DO!” or “I DON’T.”
- Personality Assessment: discover how well you and your mate harmonize with each other.
- Communication: learn to listen, express yourselves and resolve conflicts to enhance communication and encourage intimacy in marriage.
- Roles & Responsibilities: learn the biblical roles for husbands and wives and how to implement them.
- Finances: discover how to make your financial goals and decisions relying on God; He owns everything and we are only stewards of His resources.
- Sex: understand God’s plan to develop complete physical, emotional and spiritual intimacy in marriage.
Registration
When determining your session, we advise beginning your first class at least six months prior to your anticipated wedding date. Please allow for the last class to be at least 12 weeks before the wedding date. Sessions are 8 – 10 weeks and are offered four times a year, classes are weekly.
Session Availability
Winter Session: Second Tuesday/Saturday in January
Spring Session: Last Tuesday/ Saturday in March
Summer Session: Second Tuesday in June (Saturday Class subject to availability)
Fall Session: Last Tuesday/ Saturday in August
Tuesday Classes: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. or Saturday Classes: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
COST: per couple: $75.00- OCBF member; $100.00- non- members
The fee includes the cost of Preparing for Marriage workbook, Personality Assessment and additional marriage resource materials. Space is limited. Please register early.