Family & Faith

About the Book

Contemporary marriages are facing relationship challenges caused by the shift in recent decades from the traditional pattern of marriages and family relationships to the current form of companionship or partnership relationships. This new system requires special strategies for families to survive. Most people are unaware of the need for education in order to enjoy marital success. Consequently,about fifty percent of marriages in North America fail. This book addresses this need and offers a few bold solutions by using lessons from Biblical families blended with current ideas from marriage professionals.

About the Author

Drs. Robert & Pamela Samms have spent the last nine years dealing with marriage and family relationships as marriage educators. In fact, their entire professional careers have been involved with couples, parents, and children. Robert served as clergyman, including marriage and family counseling, and church administrator. Pamela participated in Robert's ministry as a pastor's wife and youth leader. She worked for over forty years as teacher and school principal.

During the past five years they have been conducting marriage and family seminars in the United States and Canada. Drs. Robert & Pamela Samms are certified with Better Marriages, Inc. as leader couple faciltators. They have published two other books: Making Marriage Meaningful: Insights and Secrets from a Forty-Year Marriage and Paradigms of Marriage: Ten Ways to Ensure and Restore Marital Happiness: A Christian Perspective. They reside in Jacksonville, Florida and are enjoying their four children, their spouses, and eleven grandchidren. The Samms' conduct marriage and family seminars through their programs Marriage Motivational Series and Family and Faith Series.