Would you help by completing a marriage survey?
The organisers of National Marriage Week are calling on church leaders and couples to complete a survey that will help them monitor current activity and better equip churches to support marriage in the future.
Last February's launch of National Marriage Week in Northern Ireland was widely supported by local politicians and the media. However, the Marriage Week Planning Team, in their efforts to document what was happening in churches, realised that there had been a much weaker response than they anticipated.
With some expert help the planning team have developed two short and completely anonymous questionnaires, one targeted at church ministers and one at married (and formerly married) folk attending churches in Northern Ireland. If you fall into either category please fill one in!
The surveys take just a few minutes to complete and can be accessed by the links here to the
‘Church Leaders’
survey and
‘Couples’
survey
The results will be analysed by members of the planning team and a full report will be published during Marriage Week 2011. It will be used to encourage and equip churches; highlighting areas of strength and weakness in church provision, examples of good practice and of obstacles limiting church capacity to engage, relationship issues being addressed and those frequently avoided. Such a report on current activity will allow individual churches and denominations to serve their members in a more informed manner, share expertise and resources and ultimately support marriages across the province.