-By Cindy Wright

Listed below are a few ideas that may help a church build a Marriage Resource section in their library. This would be for those who want to improve their marriages and to help those who have a desire to mentor other married couples:

• Have someone list all the marriage resources that you have in the marriage category in your library so it’s available to the Marriage Mentoring leadership.

• Periodically give an updated list of all the marriage resources that your church library has available to those in the Marriage Mentoring leadership of your church. That way, they’ll be able to recommend these resources to those who need them.

• Make it your goal as Mentoring leaders to build the church library so it contains a wide variety of “helps” (books, videos, cassettes, etc.) for those who want to be pro-active in keeping marriages healthy.

• Consider putting a small Christian Bookstore within your library. It could offer a limited selection of highly recommended books for purchase at a discounted price. This way if someone wanted to purchase a book for varying reasons, they wouldn’t have to search to obtain it elsewhere. But make sure that your library has at least one copy to lend of each resource you have in the bookstore section. The idea is to quickly get good resources into the hands of those who want them.

• Have a notebook on file that contains “viewing and listening” guides for copying that will be helpful for those who want them and put a note on the cover or in a prominent place that states that “listening or viewing guides” are available upon request.

• Ask your congregation to donate Marriage Resources that they know would be helpful to others.

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