Care and Counseling

This is the first step to reserving your wedding date at Valley. In this session, you will have the opportunity to meet Pastor Linton and hear more about Valley Church’s heart for Christ-centered marriages. The leaders at Valley Church have established a marriage policy reflecting God’s design for marriage. If it is determined that a couple meets the criteria for this biblically based policy, we will move forward with the premarital counseling and Pastor Linton will provide you with the next steps in securing your wedding date.

As a part of our church’s dedication to the lifetime commitment of marriage, we require that all couples participate in premarital counseling. Our premarital counseling involves meeting with a mentor couple to go through Marriage 101, an eight-session DVD series by Gary and Barb Rosberg. You should begin to schedule your sessions as soon as possible so you can complete the counseling before the wedding. It is preferable to do one session a month up until the month before the wedding, but we can do the sessions faster if necessary. Email John Berglund to get started.

You will be assigned a Valley Church wedding coordinator who will help you organize the church portion of your wedding day. The wedding coordinator is NOT a wedding planner. She will be your guide and a liaison between you and all the moving pieces at Valley on your wedding day. She will make sure your experience using Valley Church goes smoothly and will be a great asset to you on your wedding day as well as the time leading up to that day. Your wedding coordinator will contact you at least six weeks before the wedding.