Les and Leslie Parrott - 51 Creative Ideas for Marriage Mentors. Connecting Couples to Build Better Marriages

Books

51 Creative Ideas for Marriage Mentors

Becoming Soul Mates

The Complete Guide to Marriage Mentoring

Getting Ready for the Wedding

I Love You More (and workbooks)

Just the Two of Us

Love Is

The Love List

Love Talk (and workbooks)

The Marriage Mentor Training Manual for Husbands (for Wives)

Meditations on Proverbs for Couples

Pillow Talk

Questions Couples Ask

Relationships (and workbook)

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts (and workbooks)

Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts (and workbooks)

Video CurriculumZondervanGroupware

Complete Resource Kit for Marriage Mentoring

I Love You More

Love Talk

Mentoring Engaged and Newlywed Couples

Relationships

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

Audio Pages

Love Talk

Relationships

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts

Books by Les Parrott

The Control Freak

Helping Your Struggling Teenager

High Maintenance Relationships

The Life You Want Your Kids to Live

Seven Secrets of a Healthy Dating Relationship

Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda

Once Upon a Family

25 Ways to Win with People (coauthored with John Maxwell)

Love the Life You Live (coauthored with Neil Clark Warren)

Books by Leslie Parrott

If You Ever Needed Friends, Its Now

God Loves You Nose to Toes (childrens book)

Marshmallow Clouds

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51 Creative Ideas for Marriage Mentors

Copyright 2006 by Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott

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Parrott, Les.

51 Creative Ideas for Marriage Mentors : connecting couples to build better marriages / Les and Leslie Parrott

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1. Church work with married people. 2. Mentoring in church work. 3. MarriageReligious aspectsChristianity. I. Parrott, Leslie L., 1964II. Title.

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To Jason and Kelli Krafsky
and
Shane and Aimee Fookes
Two couples who share our passion
for awakening the sleeping giant.

CONTENTS

PART ONE
IDEAS FOR MENTORING ANY COUPLE

Deep appreciation goes to our entire team at Zondervanespecially Paul Engle and Greg Clouse. Scott Bolinder caught the vision for awakening the sleeping giant the moment we mentioned it. This book never would have been written without the heartfelt encouragement and care of our Zondervan family. We cant say thanks enough.

We would be remiss if we did not also thank the many marriage mentors we have met across the country. Youve been asking for a resource like this for years and were so pleased to finally have it for you. Your passion for sounding the call to other like-minded couples who will join you in the cause of marriage mentoring is an inspiration, and we pray that this book will be another helpful tool in the important work you are doing.