From the Call Center this afternoon. If this doesn’t light your fire, your wood is wet.
DR
I just got a call from Ellen (not her name) in Ohio. She works at a local store in town and came across a bunch of books that someone was going to throw away. She decided to glance through and see what was there as she did she came across a workbook with a yellow sticker on in saying that it had in it the biblical blueprints for marriage. She said as she looked at it it was obvious that it was a sample copy with none of the answers in it. She had never heard of Familylife, but she knew she needed the blueprints because her marriage was crumbling. She called and immediately found a weekend that was near her and signed she and her husband up. Later that week her husband moved out and she said she felt absolutely hopeless, but her husband agreed that he would go to the conference with her. She said 3 of the worst weeks of her life went by before the conference and when they showed up Friday night he wouldn’t look at her and left a seat between them when they sat down. Her thought was, “what’s the point?”
Friday night was even worse they got in a huge fight and she was certain he wouldn’t come back on Saturday, but by the time she got there he was already there and had saved her a seat in the ballroom, still a seat apart and still wouldn’t really look at her, but she said at lunch on Saturday he was a completely different person. He asked if he could stay at the house on Saturday night and before they went to bed he asked to pray with her. He then told her he had accepted Christ and asked to commit their marriage to being a Godly one.
Since last Spring they have become group coordinators and brought 25 couples in their church to the conference and she was registering another free couple for the conference in Akron this Spring. Ellen said that FamilyLife has now changed their lives and has changed the marriages in their church. She said thank you again and to think it was all because God showed her a book that was about to be thrown away.
