Cooking Up Good Marriages

Tonight is the first of three parish Couples' Cookouts, being led by Jerry and Bev McFarland, and Tim and Senah McInnes. These two couples have been leading marriage classes during the SS hour and are now taking it "on the road." Tonight's cookout is at Scott and Cecilia Kiehlmeier's house in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. If you want to go, call them or the McInnes or McFarlands. The other cookouts will be August 5 at the McFarlands in Glenside, and August 19 at the Wynnes in Lansdowne.

These cookouts are part of an effort to help marriages in the church. The great surprise to Christian couples is to find out that Christian marriages can have the same problems as other marriages. Communication, instead of becoming easier, becomes more complex. Sins and temptations that we thought had to do with being single are as strong, if not stronger, in marriage. Just as we have to learn the gospel daily in our lives, so we have to learn the gospel daily in our marriages. I hope many of you will come out. I'll be at the one August 5.