Marriage ministry includes:

• Marriage Preparation for engaged couples,
• FOCCUS,
• Marriage Enrichment Programs like
  • Marriage Encounter,
  • Retrouvaille program - help for troubled couples
•  Training for facilitators of all these programs.
• Coming soon are training modules on this webpage for all marriage preparation team members. 

Marriage Preparation workshops are offered at

• St. Frances Cabrini Church in Savannah,
• St. Anne Church in Columbus,
• the Augusta deanery churches,
• St. Peter the Apostle Church in Savannah,
• Sacred Heart Church in Warner Robins and
• St. Joseph Church in Macon. 
• St. John the Evangelist Church in Valdosta 

Consult the Family Life Programs calendar for a listing of available marriage preparation and enrichment programs in our diocese and in the surrounding dioceses. Participation in a preparation program of at least six hours under the leadership of a priest with a lay couple team or a licensed counselor or social worker qualifies the couple for a discount on the marriage license in Georgia.  

A REMARRIAGE PREPARATION workshop is offered twice a year in conjunction with the Savannah Deanery workshop. This workshop is especially directed to those couples who have been previously married and have an annulment or dispensation.  It is also appropriate for widows and widowers entering into another relationship or those couples who will have their civil marriage validated in the Church.

Register in Savannah by calling Judy Clark at 912-927-4725. Contact the other parishes for registration information. Phone numbers and email addresses for other dioceses are posted at the end of the attached calendar.

Spanish Marriage Preparation programs are offered through the parishes as retreat days or with sponsor couples. Contact your pastor directly for more information. Couples may also participate in Renovación Conyugal. Dates are listed under the Hispanic Ministry department.

Family Life Programs Calendar, 2010