We love 2=1 because of the leadership.  Mike and Marilyn are compassionate visionaries and they have surrounded themselves with like-minded saints that use their gifting and talents to further God’s plan for marriages and families. Mike and Marilyn are establishers. They could have video-taped themselves teaching the classes and then sold the sets for $300 in Christian book stores or on the web and lived happily ever after. But they didn’t. They gave what God gave them to folks who are called to minister to marriages. They provided us, thousands and thousands of us worldwide, with the opportunity to use the gifts of ministry and teaching given to us by God. Mike and Marilyn gave us a vehicle to work in, that we may be empowered by the Holy Spirit, to do what He Himself ordained us to do.

We love 2=1 because it works to strengthen the local churches by strengthening families. 2=1 endeavors to enhance the local body of believers, not replace it. Its vision of a lighthouse on every block makes every local church stronger. Strong marriages and strong families make strong churches. The home is where you can laugh and cry and say dumb things without being laughed at and humiliated.  It is where you can practice the gifts of the Spirit without ridicule. It is where the bride and groom meet in holy matrimony and where the kids establish their bedrock beliefs of faith, ethics, morals, and standards that guide them for a lifetime.  It is where the parents cry out to God for the money to pay the rent, the courage to deny a child’s demand for $150 sneakers, and the wisdom to know “who started it.”  Hopefully, it is where the kids can take mom and dad’s love and support for granted, where they can question their parent’s sanity (and vice versa), and where they know they are cherished. We love 2=1 because it seeks only to build up and enhance the family and the home and thus the local church.

We love 2=1 because we love Jesus. And we see Jesus in 2=1.

Mark and Gayle