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Our Connection
With repeated deployments and the normal challenges of military life, the stresses military families face can really take a toll on a marriage. Many of the solutions to the anxieties military couples experience are spiritual in nature. Our Connection: Staying Close When Worlds Apart is an important resource tool to give couples the faith and knowledge […]
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Top Military Marriage Stressors
Spencer and Margaret have worked with many military couples as volunteers, besides being a military couple themselves. Here are the top three struggles they see: Multiple deployments: “When you’re apart, you grow, but you’re growing without one another. That makes it hard during the reintegration period.” Frequent moving: “You start over every time. […]
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Is this what marriage was supposed to be?
Marriage and Deployment “So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” —Matthew 19:6 Our ministry verse has been “With my mouth (also with my pen and my computer) I will make Your faithfulness known through all generations.” (Psalm 89:1) My husband and I are not alone […]
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Weekend to Remember Three City Initiative
Our minitsry has expanded its successful ministry partnership this year with FamilyLife regarding a special project called “The Three City Initiative”. FamilyLife and Military Ministry of Cru have invested more resources for Weekend to Remember promotion, marketing, and follow-up at three strategic cities: Jacksonville, FL; Dayton, OH, and Phoenix, AZ. Military Ministry of Cru is […]
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A Victorious Military Marriage…In Spite Of Challenge
What Would It Look Like… New words and phrases keep coming into our English language—some better than others! On the “bad” side, I am distressed at the new use of the word “whatever.” Being one who loves Philippians 4:8, from which this devotional is named, the word “whatever” leads me into thinking of things that […]
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Betrayed and Feeling Helpless, This Military Wife Trusted God
Betrayed and Feeling Helpless, This Military Wife Trusted God Purposeful Love and Grace We first encountered the young Marine who was assigned to the Wounded Warrior Battalion when we volunteered to bring goodies during the weekly Bible study the chaplain had every Wednesday evening in their barracks. This Marine was the one leading the Bible […]
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