Meet Christine Bell Every one of The Marriage School's 90 volunteers shares a passion for helping husbands and wives strengthen their marriage covenant and build healthier, more loving relationships. As we pursue growth, we are committed to cultivating excellence, wisdom, and faithful stewardship. TMS President Daniel Sachs reflects, "Rachel and I believed God had called us to this mission field, but we also realized we lacked many of the skills needed to build a thriving min

David & Dyah Miller David and Dyah discovered that putting God at the center of their marriage gave them a reason to keep growing through every hardship they faced. David and Dyah like to joke that they did marriage backwards. Most couples meet at a bar and get married in a church. They met at church and got married in a bar. Long before they met, both had already decided they wanted God at the center of their lives, and they believed God had brought them together. Their wedd

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The Eve Center offers free peer counseling to women in the Cincinnati area so that no woman has to walk alone through her life struggles. Executive Director Kenda Moss, found healing at the Eve Center herself many years ago as she battled to overcome her own childhood trauma. She credits a supportive family, a strong faith community, and most of all her husband, Dave, for facilitating that healing. “Having somebody like Dave, who loved me through all of that ugliness and was

A strong start doesn’t guarantee a win. You can open the season with a winning streak and still lose the game if you don’t know how to fight for the finish. In the end, it’s not the first quarter that tells the story—it’s the final score. For John and Danita, the first decade of marriage felt like a dream. It was lighthearted. Playful. Easy. John laughs when he remembers it: they were so happy that people didn’t even believe it could be real. Without warning, everything chang

Even with a romantic backstory and call to full-time ministry, Brad and Heidi Mitchell know that it’s never okay to take marriage health for granted. In their first book together, Ruined to Recovery , they describe how adultery nearly destroyed their marriage. Heidi urges, “The Marriage School (TMS) isn’t just for couples who have been through adultery [although] it is valuable for those people. You can have a solid great marriage and still TMS is for you because you can lea

Surviving a bizarre plane crash sounds like a happy ending, but for Zach and Kate, it was the beginning of a long battle to save their marriage and their family. A single-prop accident left Zach with serious injuries requiring multiple surgeries, and Kate with a life-threatening traumatic brain injury that kept her hospitalized for months. While they fought to recover, a family member stepped in to take care of their baby girl. “Life had been really good,” Zach remembers. “Th

Leif and Jean Anderson, co-executive directors of The Springs, partner with The Marriage School by serving as a sharing couple at weekly meetings. “We knew what it was like,” Leif says, “and we received hope and encouragement [from other couples] … We know how much it helped us, and we want to give that to others because marriage is so important.”

For Nathan and Bonnie Morris, the fight to save their marriage was also a battle for the well-being of their children and the future of their family. Young and in love, Nathan and Bonnie married without any idea of what it meant to nurture a relationship. After seven years of poor communication and neglecting time together, their marriage was in a crisis and divorce looked inevitable. However, there was someone else to consider—their son was just one month old and he needed b

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