Marriage Mentoring
Getting married is exciting — and worth preparing for intentionally. Marriage Mentoring helps engaged and seriously dating couples build a strong foundation for a healthy, lasting marriage.
Prepare for More Than the Wedding
There’s a lot to plan when you’re getting married. Planning the wedding matters, but preparing for the marriage matters more.
At Echo, we want to help couples enter marriage with clarity, confidence, and a strong foundation. Marriage Mentoring gives you space to have important conversations, understand each other more deeply, and develop practical tools that will serve you long after the wedding day.
What Is Marriage Mentoring?
Marriage Mentoring is our premarital preparation process for couples who are engaged or moving toward engagement.
You’ll be matched with a trained mentor couple who will guide you through meaningful conversations about your relationship, your future, and the kind of marriage you want to build.
Together, you’ll explore areas like:
The goal isn’t to have every answer before you get married. It's to help you understand one another more deeply, talk honestly about important areas, and begin your marriage with healthy tools and shared expectations.
What Marriage Mentoring Is Not
Marriage Mentoring is not professional therapy or clinical counseling.
Our mentors are trained leaders who can listen, encourage, ask good questions, and help guide important conversations. If deeper emotional, mental health, trauma, addiction, abuse, or other complex issues surface during the process, they may recommend connecting with a licensed professional counselor for additional support.
The Curriculum: PREPARE/ENRICH
Our Marriage Mentoring process uses PREPARE/ENRICH, a widely used relationship assessment designed to help couples understand their strengths and identify areas for growth.
Each of you will complete an online assessment before meeting with your mentor. Your results help guide personalized conversations around topics that matter most as you prepare for marriage.
The assessment is not a test, and there is no passing or failing. It simply helps you and your mentor know where to focus your time together.
What to Expect
Need Professional Counseling?
Sometimes premarital conversations bring up areas that would benefit from deeper support.
Echo.Church does not provide professional marriage or family therapy. Our pastors may be available for pastoral care, prayer, and spiritual support, but for ongoing or specialized care, we recommend working with a licensed professional counselor.
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