Marriage Works of

Harford County

We exist to promote life-long, healthy marriages through

collaboration, education, and resources to restore hope and

transform our community!

www.marriageworksmd.orgNorma G. Tilton, President

MARRIAGE WORKS TEAMBack to Front

Howard Magness - Higher Together

Neil Tilton, Treasurer – Our Father’s Heart

Allan Gorman, Vice President Harford Community Church

Sonya Pietrogiacomo , SecretaryA.P.G. Federal Credit Union

Norma Tilton, President – Our Father’s Heart

Marie Dekowski – St. Margaret Parrish

Also, Not Shown in Picture

Janice Greenwood – Harford Co. Schools

Phil Kotschenreuther – Mountain Christian

Lori Frebert – Our Father’s Heart

Sheila Short – Holy Temple

Michael Forestieri – Tell It Like It Is

Larry & Flora Hinton – New Hope Baptist

Marriage Works of Harford County is a faith-based coalition that has been in existence for six (6) years.

WHO ARE WE?

We are a cooperative effort to support marriage and family life by providing training, support, and resources to assist in premarital preparation, marriage strengthening, enrichment, family training, and other efforts to promote and maintain a positive marriage culture in the community.

In the next five (5) years we will raise the life long healthy marriage rate to 70% in Harford County by bringing healthy relationship building resources to teens, to couples in pre-marital situations, and to married couples.

This will shift the culture away from shallow short-term encounters, living together arrangements, and post-marital divorce, and toward dating, engagement, marital understanding, and skills which will transform our social, economic, spiritual, health, and educational atmosphere.

Marriage Works Vision

To promote happy, healthy marriages

To champion the benefits of marriage

To reduce the divorce rate in Harford County

To encourage and provide premarital counseling

To reduce out-of-wedlock birth

OUR GOALS ARE

Harford County Schools Harford Community College Boys & Girls Club of H.C. Harford County Court House Harford County Government Harford Community Church Saint Margaret Parish Our Father’s Heart Grace Assembly of God Mountain Christian Church APG Federal Credit Union New Hope Baptist Church

Marriage Works Partnering

Working together to make a positive impact in our

community!

HOW ARE WE MAKING A DIFFERENCE?

Annual Marriage Conference for six (6) consecutive years

Love Thinks training for middle and high school students inHarford County public schools

Love Thinks training for singles of ALL ages offered to community at large

Raise awareness and promote marriage through website,billboards, PSA’s (public service announcements), articles in newspapers, and premarital brochures at court house

Relationship skills training

Premarital counseling and assessments

Counseling resources

Excellent program, well organized, and very useful

I know 10’s, if not 100’s of couples who needed to be here. When is next conference?

Cost effective, great location, wonderful people, and awesome speakers.

I am going to make sure my husband knows he is my hero!

TESTIMONIALS

Annual Marriage Conference

Our very 1st Annual Marriage

Conference featuring a

Video Simulcast “Love Talk”

by: Drs. Les and Leslie

Parrott

Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008

Annual Marriage Conference

Our 3rd Annual Marriage

Conference featuring a

Live Video Simulcast “Focus on Marriage”

Presented by:Focus on the Family

Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010

We have held an annual marriage conference for five (5) years

now and are now working on our 6th annual conference.

We are committed to creating an environment where

couples can continue to learn and understand how to

sustain happy, healthy marriages.

Our 5th Annual Marriage Conference

Fifth AnnualMarriage Conference

Invest InYourMarriageSaturday, February 11, 20129:00 am to 3:30 pm

Enjoyed this very much! Well worth our time on

a Saturday.

Our marriage will be stronger and better because of today’s

conference!

TESTIMONIAL

LOVE THINKSAlso know as, “How Not to Marry a Jerk or Jerkette”

Janice Greenwood took the lead and followed through on the vision to see this training approved for children in the Harford County

Schools, she is among the first in the country to do so.

This is just one way Marriage Works is working hard to

change culture in our community.

Developed by: Dr. Van Epp

We now have six (6) teachers trained and teaching Love Thinks in five (5) schools in Harford County.

EXCELLENT ROADMAP for SINGLES of ALL AGES

FOCUS on the RELATIONSHIP ATTACHMENT MODEL (RAM plan)

LEARN to BALANCE BOTH HEAD & HEART in romantic relationships

LEARN to build a HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP & choose a life partner

WORLD-RENOWNED SKILLS TRAINING

R.A.M.(Relationship Attachment

Model)

LOVE THINKS BILLBOARD

High School Diploma + Full Time Job (Over 21 before Married + Children) = 2% Chance

of Poverty Reaching our children at a young age is one of

our key focus areas.

BILLBOARD

TESTIMONIAL

Will focus to learn more of my wife’s needs and strive to understand my wife and consider her more.

Very Good! Praise God for Marriage Works

Marriage Works of Harford County

NEEDS YOU!! YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN

OUR COMMUNITY

HELP US TO CHANGE THE CULTURE BY STRENGTHENING MARRIAGE AND TEACHING OUR SINGLES/ YOUNG ADULTS HOW TO HAVE HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS!!

DONATE TODAY OR MAKE A PLEDGE

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!

Helping couples build strong, life-long, healthy marriages and families.

www.marriageworksmd.org

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