We have amazing MarriedPeople partner churches. These marriage champions are taking the MarriedPeople resources and doing things that are above and beyond anything we dreamed about.
We want you to meet them. So once a month, we’ll spotlight a different church that is impacting not only the marriages in their church, but in their community. We want you to meet people from churches of all sizes, large and small, in various types of communities, whether urban, rural or suburban, with budgets big and small and volunteers plenty or scarce. Regardless of how different these churches may be from yours, we think you’ll find some relevancy to where you are.
We gave them a list of questions to find out more about their church, their team and their ministry. This month, we would like to introduce you to Carla Floyd at Spirit Lake Baptist in Spirit Lake, Idaho.
Church: Spirit Lake Baptist (Spirit Lake, Idaho)
MarriedPeople champion: Carla Floyd
Size of your church: 130
Approximate number of married couples: 50
Describe the area you are in: Rural, small town
Tell Us About . . . You and Your Team
Our team consists of volunteer staff, my husband Jeff and myself. We are the encouragers of keeping marriage ministry going!
How did you get involved in marriage ministry? My husband and I were wanting to keep our marriage on track. We knew that being involved in marriage ministry would make that happen.
How many people are on your marriage ministry team (including you)? Two other couples, six on a regular basis. However, there may be more since we are taking a mission trip February 24-March 11 with five couples to Costa Rica. All our couples have a heart and passion for helping marriages!
How did you recruit your team? We just asked them to help.
What is the demographics of the couples in your church? Young marrieds, retirees, parents with kids, couples without kids. We are multi-generational! Grandparents, parents and now our married kids attend!
Tell Us About . . . How You Use the MarriedPeople Resources and Strategy
What resources do you use from MarriedPeople? Larger Group Experiences, Date Nights, monthly MarriedPeople E-ZINEs, the Married People book
How do you communicate with your couples? Handouts, bulletin, verbal announcements during service, emails, church website, social media
Do you encourage/invite couples from the community to your marriage events? How? Yes, we try to! Mainly through word of mouth.
What has been one really great thing that has come from using MarriedPeople resources? No matter how goofy or unprepared we sometimes are, everyone says our events are fun and they really like them!
What has been your biggest success so far? Just the fact that we were able to do two events in 2015 was a success!
What has been your biggest challenge? Scheduling so everyone can come.
Share with us one way you took the MarriedPeople resources and customized them to fit your church. We started out with One-Night events. We love the plug and play, script, games etc! It makes it so usable! We have a small budget and this allows us to have fun!
What’s your dream to happen next? To see couples grow in relationships, having fun! To get quarterly events on the calendar and not have conflicts. And to get our community people involved!
If MarriedPeople could equip you with one resource, what would it be? Childcare event ideas. Because we are rural, we have childcare on site. If we had a schedule with some ideas for games, a devotion or story that could go along with the topic that would be so much help for our kids time.
Thanks, Carla, and the awesome team impacting marriages in Spirit Lake, Idaho!
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