After 35 years as a business owner and general contractor, my "avocation" became an additional "vocation" as my wife Alex and I went full-time in the relationship education field. We have co-authored a video-led, Christian, couples communication program called "CoupleTalk" that integrates research-based communication and conflict resolution principles with the scriptural teachings about them. Some of the communication content came from Alex's education and experience teaching at the university level, but most is based on the Relationship Enhancement program written by Dr. Bernard Guerney in the 70's.I worked for eight years as Shepherd of Marriage and Relationships at our home church, Fullerton Free, and while there completed the work to become a credentialed minister in the Evangelical Free Church of America.Now I am committed to Christian relationship counseling, premarital preparation, and officiating weddings, as well as teaching and traveling in support of CoupleTalk. I still am involved with my contracting business on a very part-time basis, and also as board member for our nonprofit, Relationship Research Foundation, Inc.
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