Here's a comment from someone whose marriage was transformed through a focus on the family marriage intensive.

I was forever changed and tremendously grateful for the tools given to us to change a

stormy relationship into a peaceful calm.

What a gift God gave us here in a safe environment with counselors and staff who are totally

walking in a close relationship with Christ. Miracles happen. Well we're

talking today about marriage transformation on this episode of

focused on the family with Jim Daly and we'll hear from Tara Leland and Bob Paul.

There are two of those safe counselors who serve at our marriage intensives and

they'll be offering encouragement and practical tools for your marriage.

I'm John Fuller, thanks for joining us.

John I know this conversation is going to be so helpful and people, especially those who are

supporting the ministry, we've got five strategic goals.

It's evangelism, marriage, parenting, advocacy for children, and engaging the culture.

This program is squarely in that marriage column.

And last year alone, we, together, helped over 170,000 couples through a marital crisis.

That is a big number and I hope in the right way you would be proud of that as a donor to focus

on the family.

One of the core things we do in that marriage column

is something called Hope Restored,

where marriages that are on the brink of being broken.

Couples can go for an intensive, usually a four day intensive, and we have an

astounding 80% success rate where we go back two years later and those couples are still

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