Saturday night at the Dolan’s was the one Saturday night per month when all the couples from the church are invited over to eat some food together, and to watch a teaching video on marriage. Elba said if all the couple’s came, there would be about 40. Every seemed very open and keen to learn how to make their marriage relationship work better. When the speaker was serious, so were they. When he told a joke, everyone laughed. (Except me. I didn’t get most of the jokes. But I was good, glad they were all tuned in. The speaker’s Portuguese was a little different than I was used to, or maybe I just haven’t learned all the funny words about marriage stuff yet).
The couple’s all gathered in the same big room where we used to have our children’s group. Dienes, this lady in the pink shirt below, was in our children’s group when we met out front, in the carport. She comes from a very difficult childhood and home life. She was an adolescent when this group met in this big room, which is now Elba’s house. Dienes was a youth when we met in the Mission Guest House. She became the worship leader as the congregation grew at the Mirante Vineyard church. Now she is back in this big room with her husband, learning how married couples relate to each other.
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