Authentic. Empowering. Applicable.

Through Build Your Marriage, Brad and Heidi speak at multiple marriage conferences across the country each year. Brad and Heidi have become sought after speakers for conferences and retreats. They communicate biblical truths of how to build your marriage on the foundation of God’s word. Their careful application of scripture, along with personal stories and practical tools, has been used by God to transform marriages and redirect families.

What to expect

Brad & Heidi’s passion is to help couples build a Christ-centered marriage. If you are planning a marriage event or conference they would love to serve you. Select topics from the menu below for your event.

Session Topics Menu

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Build Your Marriage Romantically

This session emphasizes key essentials for taking intentional steps for creating an atmosphere for romance.

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Build Your Marriage Spiritually

Specific and practical ways to grow closer to Christ while encouraging each other’s spiritual development

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Build Your Marriage Through Forgiveness

This session looks at applicable, Biblical instruction on forgiving your spouse and forgiving yourself.

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Build Your Marriage Through Change

Whether it’s health, financial, vocational or something else, change can draw a couple together or tear them apart.

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Build Your Marriage by Discovering Your Shared Purpose

A powerful bond for any marriage is a shared dream with a roadmap to accomplish it.

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Build Your Marriage Amidst Spiritual Warfare

This vital session looks at how the enemy attacks any marriage.

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5 Ways To Protect Your Marriage

Your marriage is worth protecting. Brad and Heidi present important safeguards for every couple so they can have the strongest, most fulfilling marriage possible.

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Build A Legacy Though Your Marriage

Everyone builds a legacy, either positive or negative. This session is loaded with application, practical insights, and ideas that will leave a godly impact on your family and others.

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Build Your Marriage Through Conflict

Every marriage encounters disagreements and conflict. This empowering session includes 10 steps to resolve conflict in a healthy way.

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Build Your Marriage Through Healthy Communication

This session includes teaching on key skills for communicating in marriage, pitfalls to watch out for, how to develop empathy and more!

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Build Your Marriage Financially

Brad and Heidi take a biblical look at how couples should rightly steward the resources God has entrusted to them.

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Build Your Marriage by Living the Adventure

A marriage empowered by God’s Spirit is the greatest adventure a couple can experience. In this session couples discover how to serve and please God together despite risks and challenges.

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Build Your Marriage Sexually

The sexual relationship between a husband and wife is a vital, yet often neglected part of marriage. Brad and Heidi teach four truths about sex from a biblical and practical perspective.

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Truths for Triumphing Over Temptation

This relevant session zeroes in on Biblical truths regarding temptation and how couples can resist it with God’s power.

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The Five Phases of Marriage

When a couple can identify their current phase of marriage and anticipate the coming phase, they are more resilient and unified. Brad and Heidi walk couples through each phase providing hope and realistic expectations rooted in scripture.

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Rebuilding Your Marriage

This session addresses how to rebuild your marriage when trauma like betrayal or brokenness strikes. Brad and Heidi share foundational keys which help couples draw closer and move forward. Insights into how a couple can walk with friends who are in pain are included.

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How to Detox Your Marriage

No one wants poison to infiltrate their marriage. In this pertinent session Brad and Heidi reveal whether your marriage is prone to toxicity and how couples can address it.

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Men’s and Women’s Breakout Session

Depending on your group’s needs, Brad and Heidi interact with couples through Q & A, or lead a session targeted to men and women separately.

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Building A Marriage That Lasts

This is a Sunday morning message given by Brad and Heidi that focuses on three keys to a lasting marriage, including the power of the marriage covenant.

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4 Ways the Enemy Attacks Your Marriage

Brad and Heidi reveal the common attacks of the Enemy and how couples guard against those tactics. Best for Sunday morning worship services.

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Build Your Marriage Through Prayer

Prayer together is one of the most important things a couple can do, yet the most neglected. In this informative and empowering session, Brad & Heidi teach and guide couples in recognizing obstacles to prayer followed by specific ideas on how to pray together.

Upcoming Events

Christian Law Enforcement Fellowship

October 15-17, 2021

Twin Peaks Conference Center, 26409 CA-189, Twin Peaks, CA 92391
Registration Form

BYM Conference–Valdosta, GA

Oct. 23 @ 6:30 pm – Oct. 24 @ 2:30 pm

Organizer
Park Avenue United Methodist Church
100 East Park Avenue, Valdosta, GA 31602
Phone: (229) 242-3562
Website: paumc.com

BYM Conference–Bridgeport, TX

November 13 – November 14

Organizer
First Baptist Church
1204 12th Street, Bridgeport, TX 76426
Phone: 940-683-4037
Website: fbcbridgeport.com

Registration: https://forms.gle/puTEuj4xxx47fZkn7

BYM Conference–Columbus, IN

January 21, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – January 23, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Organizer
Community Church of Columbus
3850 N. Marr Rd., Columbus, IN, 47203
Website: columbus.org

BYM Conference–Locust, NC

February 12-13, 2022

Organizer
NewLife Church
157 Browns Hill Rd, Locust, NC 28097
Website: https://www.newlife247.com

Mount Hermon Marriage Conference–Mount Hermon, CA

April 22-24, 2022

Organizer
Mount Hermon
37 Conference Dr., Felton, CA 95018
Website: http://mounthermon.org

Northern Pines Family Camp–Green Lake, WI

July 24, 2022 – July 30, 2022

Organizer
Green Lake Conference Center
West 2511 State Rd. 23, Green Lake, WI 54941
Phone: 940-683-4037
Website: www.npines.org

Build Your Marriage in the Holy Land!

November 29 – December 6, 2022

(Optional extension to Jordan & Petra 12/7 – 12/11)

More Information

Imagine being with your spouse on the Sea of Galilee in the Holy Land, going to the Garden Tomb, and visiting the Church of the Nativity just before Christmas! This tour to the Holy Land is the trip of a lifetime where you can Build Your Marriage spiritually and relationally. Join us for an incredible eight-day trip to Israel where we will walk where Jesus walked. You will never read the Bible the same again. Your conversations as a couple will deepen as you talk about what you have seen and heard in the Holy Land. Some of the evenings we will be teaching Build Your Marriage sessions to further enhance your experience as a couple. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

BYM Conference – Mount Hermon, CA