National Marriage Encounter Prison Ministry, Inc.

The mission of NNEPM is to promote and encourage marriage and family life by offering Marriage Encounter programs and support materials for the incarcerated man and woman. NNEPM enables people to discover God's vision of marriage, thereby leading them to a clearer understanding of their relationship with each other and with God.

To read more about the organization click here http://www.prisonmarriageministry.org/pages/content/index.html

Now the M.E. program is available to inmates and their spouses in book form. This do-it-yourself format helps husbands and wives who are separated by incarceration to deal with improving communication, understanding ourselves and each other, strengthening our relationship, forgiving, growing in trust, our relationship with God, our prayer life, and planning for the future.

Click here for more info http://www.prisonmarriageministry.org/pages/content/page02.html

Their programs are based on these four principles:

"I" PHASE: Learning to appreciate themselves as individuals.

WE PHASE: Couples learn communication skills and come to accept each other in a way that rekindles their love relationship.

WE/GOD PHASE: Couples examine their relationship with God.

WE/GOD/WORLD PHASE: Couples let their love spiral out to others, and set goals for the future.

http://www.prisonmarriageministry.org/pages/content/phases.html

I think that if we keep all of these things at the forefront of our marriages we can survive this and not become part of the negative statistic of the rising number of prison marriages that end in divorce.

I want to thank you for this information. My husband and I both have a deep belief in God and re weathering the incarceration period fairly well. We are both concerned about the "freedom" period. He will be like a newborn in the world. This program will be invaluable to us.

I wish I had seen this when you posted it. We really need it! Thanks for sharing it

You cannot order this online? Didn't see anything on the site. Just wondering.

About half way down on this page it tells you how to order.
http://www.prisonmarriageministry.org/pages/content/page02.html

Thank you for sharing this. My husband and I are not new to this site just new to living a married life with Christ! And now, he is locked up again, we were married in September, and gave our hearts to the Lord in December. This is awesome!