Sojourn provides Pre-Marital Counseling (PMC) free of charge for Sojourn members or those in the membership process. PMC through Sojourn is required for all members regardless of their wedding location.

After turning in your completed Marriage Preparation Inventories and Informed Consent Form to the Midtown campus, you will be assigned to one of our trained marriage mentors to take you through PMC. We utilize our own material, plus a selected book to supplement the counseling. We typically schedule PMC 12 weeks before your wedding - six two-hour sessions spaced out every other week.  The last session, which deals with the marriage bed, is scheduled no more than two weeks prior to the wedding.

Scheduling is sometimes more difficult if a fiancé lives in another city or you have unusual work schedules. We ask you to be flexible and accommodating since our mentors have time demands and constraints as well. We also ask you to consider the importance of PMC by making the scheduling a priority.

You will be informed if another couple who is being trained for this ministry will shadow the PMC counselors; this is one of many ways we equip our members to do the work of the ministry (Ephesians 4:11-16). From past experience, this training does not hinder the freedom or effectiveness of the PMC process but actually serves as a blessing!

PMC Checklist (6 steps):

1. Fill out a PMC application
2. Download Marriage Preparation Inventory Instructions
3. Download A Marriage Preparatory Inventory
4. Download the Premarital Counseling Syllabus
5. Purchase the book, This Momentary Marriage, by John Piper
6. Download, read, initial each page, and sign, Sojourn Informed Consent
   
7. Schedule Financial Counseling