Worldwide Marriage Encounter

The Worldwide Marriage Encounter experience is primarily a space for you to pause, reflect, and reconnect privately. There are no group discussions.

Over the course of the experience, three couples and a priest provide new tools, using examples from their own lives, to help couples work through common themes we can all relate to, such as:

• Exploring our personality styles

• Appreciating our differences

• Listening in a new way

• Communicating intimately

• Addressing difficult topics

• Discovering God’s desire for our marriage

• Continuing the journey

Learn to become the best version of yourselves together!

The experience allows you to create a dialogue with each other and with God, to create a higher and broader understanding of what it means to be married.

While faith is a powerful part of this process, the focus of the Marriage Encounter experience is on the ups and downs of married life.

Married couples of any denomination, mixed-faith, or without religious affiliation are welcome!

Faithful to the Roman Catholic Church’s definition that marriage is a covenant that exists between one man and one woman, any reference to “marriage” or “couple” made by Worldwide Marriage Encounter is in this context.

Learn more: https://wwme.org/

Testimonial

“When my husband and I had no more hope, we found this organization. . . .We reconnected and fell in love all over again!”

Charlotte T.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter was the first marriage enrichment program ever offered and continues to be the most popular faith-based marriage enrichment in the world.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME) is the largest faith-based marriage enrichment organization in the world. Our programs have enriched and transformed the lives of married couples and priests for generations. We offer a peer-to-peer experience, typically over a weekend, where married couples and priests can pause and reflect privately on the meaning of their vocations and are given the tools for nurturing their love. Our mission is to proclaim the value of marriage and holy orders in the Church and in the world.

Please note: While Lower Columbia Catholic is glad to share this ministry with our community, it is organized and hosted by an external organization. Please contact the ministry directly using the details above for questions or further information.