Right Start:

Are you engaged to be married or thinking about getting engaged? If so, it’s important to get your relationship off to the Right Start. At North Oak Community Church, healthy marriages are valued so highly that an in-depth premarital program, called Right Start, is offered.

Right Start consists of 10 self-study lessons or classes, 5 appointments with a “Mentor Couple,” appointments with a pastor, a comprehensive personality compatibility test, and several take-home assignments. From beginning to end, the program takes at least 6 months to complete.

So, who should take Right Start?

• Seriously dating couples considering engagement should contact the church office (nocc@northoak.net; (785) 628-8887) for a preliminary resource book to help provide insight into your committed relationship and may help with your decision to get engaged.

• All engaged couples. You should allow yourself at least 6 months prior to your wedding to complete the process.

• Anyone desiring to be married at North Oak Community Church or by a North Oak pastor. Since marriage is a covenant between the couple and God, the church is united behind a policy that requires the successful completion of Right Start for any couple that gets married here.

Like any program or class, participants will get out of it as much as they put into it. However, the following are guaranteed benefits of taking Right Start.

• You will have the opportunity to discuss a wide variety of topics that affect marriage that most couples don’t think to talk over prior to the wedding but absolutely should.

• You will discover areas of compatibility and disagreement in your relationship to make the transition to marriage smoother.

• You will learn how to set appropriate expectations for sharing your life with your future spouse.

• You will become equipped with tools for developing and maintaining a healthy and growing relationship.

• You will gain the biblical perspective on marital roles and responsibilities, finances, conflict management, planning and building a family, healthy communication, and other topics.

Interested? Applications for Right Start are available in the church office. You can pick up an application during office hours (8:30a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday through Friday) or have one sent to you by calling 785-628-8887. (A $6.00 registration deposit applies) If you have questions contact Pastor Ken Ediger.