The Blessed Marriage Project (BMP) is an independently funded, grassroots initiative by Blessed couples for Blessed couples. Its programs welcome Blessed couples and married Blessed family members of every age and at every stage of marriage, and from every part of our Unificationist families community.
The mission of BMP is:
- To connect Blessed couples to God and True Parent’s vision of the true husband and wife relationship,
- To challenge couples to evaluate the health and status of their own marriage,
- To empower spouses to invest in the further development of their love relationship, and
- To educate and support singles and couples to live lives of absolute sexual integrity and to bring their marriages closer to God’s ideal.
The initiative was conceived by two families in 2013, and formally launched the following year, with the donor couple generously giving $100,000 to cover annual expenses. Now their contribution has been over $200,000 annually, to include the related PureMind.Online initiative. (Read more history.)
The BMP is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit organization (meet the Board of Directors). The programming is led by professional Unificationist marriage educators.
In 2015, the Project began experimenting with new retreat formats, and expanding its menu of educational resources, most notably, PureMind.Online, to help combat the threat that pornography represents to Blessed couples.
Currently, the primary offering of the BMP is its Energize! Couples Retreats, which are designed for Blessed spouses to experience God’s love through a refreshing opportunity to learn useful information and tools, bond and enjoy each other as spouses, and to connect with other Blessed couples. To anchor the benefits in couples’ lives, the Retreat launches an opportunity for a local Small Group experience, and ongoing educational and supportive events and resources.
The purpose of the BMP also includes training young Unificationists to learn to carry out such programming in the future. In addition, the Project provides for training volunteers to facilitate Small Groups and Seminars among past participants and other married couples in their local church communities. The team is looking for other young people with a passion to support couples to join our staff, as well as older members to partners with us and contribute their skills.
The Project is offering Energize! Couples Retreats in 2017 depending upon what hosting communities contribute in terms of funding and local staff, and how their open dates coincide with the availability of BMP staff. We encourage interested communities and potential donors to contact our staff.
The summit was excellent, I can’t recommend it enough. With proven methods (similar to AA and using the best of our teachings ex. about unconditional love) to help people take back control of themselves, their dreams and goals, this is a Frontline assault against depression, discouragement and hopelessness. No dumbed down version of just getting by or good enough, it sets the bar of the idea or ideal we are shooting for higher and more exciting and tangible / reasonable-doable than any presentation I have heard anywhere, any organization. This team that created this is powered by wisdom and reality and ideal that can only be the hand of Heaven. Good job, guys. I look forward to see what you are doing next and keep those fingers on the pulse of Heaven’s great beating heart. Like unto no other, you are needed and meeting what no others have or can do. Bless you all.
OMG Susan said all that so clearly and powerfully I forgot what I was going to say… oh yes…definitely thank you all a million x million for giving air time to what should be blanketing the air waves: honesty, love for others, humility, revelatory insights, self-awareness, attendance to HP, let’s all make more of this happen