We've always known that God has been taking us down the road to becoming marriage counsellors. We've been sitting down with couples (mostly friends) and been doing light counselling for a couple of years now, and although we are really young, Pete and I have been through training and courses to become marriage mentors with the church. We felt really awkward at first, being 26 years old and at a marriage mentors meeting with mostly middle-aged and older couples, but they welcomed us with open arms and told us that we were supposed to be there. So over the past year, we've been training and reading and preparing. The marriage mentorship program is basically more experienced married couples coming alongside engaged and newly married couples to be examples, to pray for them, and to offer the wisdom of their experience. It's like pre-marital counselling but not with a pastor.
We got our first official mentorees this Monday. We hadn't met them before they sat down with us at our house. They originally seemed surprised at our age (they're in their thirties), but they soon were really comfortable with us. It all flowed so naturally, and it was a really exciting time. I've never felt so young and so old at the same time. It was a mix of both weird and fabulous.
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