1. We exist to promote strong, life-long, healthy
marriages and families through
collaboration, education, and resources to
restore hope and transform our community!
www.marriageworksmd.org
Norma G. Tilton – President
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2. Back to Front
Howard Magness – Consultant
Higher Together
Neil Tilton - Treasurer
Our Father’s Heart
Jeff Kersey
Helping Hands
Lori Frebert – Admin. Asst.
Our Father’s Heart
Sylvia Taylor, LCMFT
Mountain Christian Church
Norma Tilton - President
Our Father’s Heart
Edna Kersey
Helping Hands
Marriage Works Team
Allan Gorman - Consultant to President
Harford Community Church
Also, Not Shown in Picture
Jerry Taylor, LCMFT
Mountain Christian Church
Picture taken by: Jerry Taylor, www.ajtaylorimages.com
3. Who Are We?
o Marriage Works of Maryland is a faith-based coalition that
has been in existence for eight (8) years.
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
4. Marriage Works Vison
oWe are working to raise the life long healthy marriage
rate in Maryland by bringing healthy relationship
building resources to teens, couples in pre-marital
situations, and to married couples.
oThis will away from shallow short-
term encounters, living together arrangements, and
post-marital divorce, and toward dating, engagement,
marital understanding, and skills which will
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5. o To promote happy, healthy marriages
o To champion the benefits of marriage
o To reduce the divorce rate in MD
o To prepare singles for marriage &
how to choose a life-long partner
o To encourage and provide premarital
counseling
o To reduce out-of-wedlock births
Marriage Works Vison
6. Marriage Works Partnering
o Grace Assembly of God
o Harford County Schools
o Boys & Girls Club
o Our Father’s Heart
o Harford Co. Court House
o Riverside Community Church
o Saint Margaret Parish
o APG Federal Credit Union
o Harford Community Church &
Well of Hope
o True Joy Ministries
o Bel Air United Methodist Church
o Edgewood Assembly of God
o Breath of God Christian Fellowship
o Helping Hands Ministry
o Saint Margaret Church of Christ
o New Destiny, Edgewood
o Aberdeen Bible Church
o Mountain Christian Church
7. How Are We Making
A Difference?
Annual Marriage Conference for eight (8) consecutive years
Love Thinks training for high school students in Harford 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), Facebook,
articles in newspapers, and premarital brochures at court house
Relationship skills training for singles and couples
Premarital counseling and assessments
Counseling resources
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8. oExcellent program, well organized, and very useful!!
oI know 10’s, if not 100’s of couples who needed to be
here. When is next conference?
oOne couple said, “this conference SAVED our
marriage”.
oI am going to make sure my
husband knows he is my
hero!
9. Our 1st Annual
Marriage Conference
Annual Marriage Conference
featuring a
Video Simulcast
“Love Talk”
by:
Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott
Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008
10. Our 6th Annual
Marriage Conference
“How to keep it together when
life is pulling you apart?”
Dr. John Van Epp
Author of:
“Love Thinks”,
also known as
“How NOT to
Marry a Jerk or
Jerkette”
Life has a way of pulling you apart! Even good things
– work, success, making a home, and raising kids –
all can cause slow leaks in your closeness. Laugh
hard while you learn Dr. Van Epp’s RAM (Relationship
Attachment Model) Plan for couples that has been
taught to tens of thousands in over eleven countries
by over four thousand instructors. Master a simple
but comprehensive plan for keeping your relationship
together and avoiding the slow leaks that lead to big
blowouts!
Saturday, February 9, 2013
11. 8TH Annual Marriage Conference
Sat., March 14th
We are pleased to welcome back:
Dr. Richard Marks
Live the Life Ministries – Tallahassee, FL
o Marriage Works has held an annual marriage conference for eight
(8) years now and are now working on our 9th annual conference.
o We are committed to creating an environment where couples can
continue to learn and understand how to sustain happy, healthy
marriages and families.
12. Aberdeen & Abingdon Stores
For Sponsoring Lunch:
Sandwiches, Waffle Chips & Cookies
Bel Air Store
for Donating Bagels
Thank You to Marie and Saint Margaret Parish for
providing Venue, helping with set up and tear down,
cookies, paper goods and more!!
13. Annual Conference Sponsors
with donations of $200 or more
Service Master Clean
Ed Ducote
For service call: 410-665-6912
www.servicemastercleanpbm.com
Safe Harbor Christian Counseling
Erick Sundquist
For appointments call: 800-305-2089
www.safeharbor1.com
Higher Together
Howard Magness
www.highertogether.org
Harford County
Christian News &
Networking
Services
Aberdeen
Family
Chiropractic
Dr. Jennifer Badding-Benton
For appointments call: 410-273-5900
www.aberdeenfamilychiropractic.com
A Family of Companies
www.nutramaxlabs.com
Products for your health and your pets
14. Enjoyed this very much!
Well worth our time on a
Saturday.
Our marriage will be
stronger and better
because of today’s
conference!
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15. LOVE THINKS
Also know as:
“How Not to Marry a Jerk or Jerkette”
Developed by: Dr. Van Epp
We now have two (2) teachers trained
and teaching Love Thinks in two (2) H.
C. public schools.
This is just one way Marriage Works is working hard to
16. F - family background
A – attitudes & actions of conscience
C – compatibility potential
E – examples of other relationships
S – skills of relationships
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17. oEXCELLENT ROADMAP for SINGLES of ALL AGES
oFOCUS on the RELATIONSHIP ATTACHMENT
MODEL (RAM plan)
oLEARN to BALANCE BOTH HEAD & HEART in
romantic relationships
oLEARN to build a HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP &
choose a life partner
WORLD-RENOWNED
SKILLS TRAINING
21. How to Unite & Ignite Your Marriage
Relationship Skills Training
o HIS NEEDS / HER NEEDS
o Making the Most of Personality Differences
o The Crucial Importance of Trust & Sex
Taught by: Norma Tilton
Marriage Educator and President of Marriage Works MD
o For the Health of Your Marriage
Taught by: Jory Fischer, JD, PCC
Safe Harbor Christian Counseling
These trainings have been so well received at Riverside that it has
become an annual event. We have many relationship skills trainings to
offer, ask us about partnering with your church or organization to bring
these valuable life skills to your people.
A complete list of the trainings we offer is on our website: www.marriageworksmd.org
22. SPONSOR A BILLBOARD
o Advertise your business by sponsoring a Marriage Works billboard
for considerably less than what you would normally pay, just $400.
o LOVE is foundational to a happy and successful marriage,
but it is NOT all you need to sustain a
fulfilling & successful marriage over time.
23. 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 MD
24. Become One of Our
Financial Partners
Supporting Marriage Works of MD with annual
donations:
Platinum Level – over $1,000 annually
Gold Level - $501 - $1,000 annually
Silver Level - $251 - $500 annually
Bronze Level - $100 - $250 annually
We GREATLY appreciate the donations of ALL our
partners; we could not do it without you!!
Consider donating today – See our donations table
Donations can also be made on our website: www.marriageworksmd.org
25. Platinum Level Partner:
Grace Assembly of God
Rev. Paul Drost
2303 E. Churchville Rd.
Bel Air, MD 21015
Ph: 410-879-5340
www.graceofbelair.com
Gold Level Partner:
Well of Hope
Harford Community Church
Rev. Allan Gorman
Ph: 410-734-0601
www.harfordcommunity.org
We want to thank the following
organizations for their generous
ongoing support of our important work.
26. Silver Level Partners:
o Pastors Norma & Neil Tilton
www.ourfathersheartministry.com
o Vernon & Phyllis Adamson
o Philip Kotschenreuther
o Rev. Allan & Peggy Gorman
www.harfordcommunity.org
o Howard Magness
www.highertogether.org
o Jerry & Sylvia Taylor, LCMFT’s
o Milton & Julie Warren
o Scott Price
o Bruce & Nancy Jacobs
o Safe Harbor Christian Counseling
www.safeharbor1.com
We want to thank the following person’s
/ organizations for their generous
ongoing support of our important work.
Bronze Level Partners:
o Nancy J. Stevens – Life Coach
yourlifehelp.com
o True Joy Ministries – Rev. Ken Telsee
www.trujoyministries.org
o Anthony & Cynthia Wickenheiser
Marriage Educators – www.edgewoodag.org
o Marion & Cheryl Zaun
o Breath of God International
Apostle Dianne Welsh – www.breathofgodcf.org
o Jory Fisher, Life Coach
www.joryfisher.com
o El Camino Church – Rev. Rick Torres
ElCamino@Graceofbelair.com
o Love Fellowship Christian Center
Rev. T. Anthony Thompson – www.lovefcc.org
o Sonya Pietrogiacomo - APG Federal Credit Union
For a complete list see our website: www.marriageworksmd.org
27. 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!!
28. SPONSOR A BILLBOARD
o Sponsor a billboard for just $400 all while advertising your
business and helping us get the word out that EVERYONE
should INVEST in marriage strengthening activities like
marriage conferences and trainings. Your marriage will be
stronger, happier and more successful because you did.
29. Check out our website:
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