Speaking on Encouragement

Encouraging Your Spouse – it’s the secret to leading a meaningful life.

We’re Robert and Lori Ferguson, a husband and wife team who have been on this marriage ride for 30+ years…

Together we’ve done all kinds of risky things (at least when you’re talking about nurturing a solid marriage). Things like:

• getting married young – at least compared to today’s standards (19 & 21)
• having children quickly – celebrating our first anniversary in the hospital after having our daughter
• Robert went back to full-time university the month after our son was born
• homeschooling our kids when nobody in our circle had heard of the idea
• emigrating to a new country with teenage kids – away from parents and friends
• ministry (Yeah. Need we say more?)
• leaving behind a secure financial trajectory to pursue a passion
• selling (most) everything, and traveling full-time for 18 months, leaving our adult kids behind

At every point in our story, our marriage was preserved by God’s grace.

And encouraging each other made the difference between leading a defeated life and a meaning-filled life.

We’re not perfect. (Oh, so far from perfect!) But we’ve been given the desire to strengthen other husbands and wives, because we believe strong marriages make our world a better place in which to live.

For the last eight years Lori has been writing and researching encouragement, specifically as encouragement pertains to marriage. Robert has been writing about marriage for the last three years, with a focus on values in marriage. In addition, we’ve been interviewing and speaking informally with couples in leadership, to learn from them. Through these endeavors, we’ve learned a lot.

We’d like to share.

To share a bit about what we’ve learned in the last years, we’ve created some presentations. 

Some of these presentations are appropriate for a quick talk – 20 to 30 minutes – in an intimate setting. A couple of the presentations are crafted as key-note addresses to larger groups.

What will your participants walk away with?

Husbands and wives will go home after a presentation with both big picture and practical ideas on how to encourage each other.

Our mission is to encourage husbands and wives to lead meaningful lives.

What difference will learning about encouragement in marriage make to those who attend?

• they’ll learn how having a hope for the future will bring a positive focus back into their marriage
• they’ll know why sharing their faith with their spouse is essential to encouraging each other, and how to do that in a positive way
• they’ll discover why loving their spouse without conditions or reservations is so encouraging
• they’ll understand why prayer is the best encouragement tool when fighting for their marriage and each other
• they’ll have solid, positive ideas on what to do – those actions which make a difference – to encourage each other

Want to learn more?

Contact us –

via email:

Robert . Lori @ Leadership Couples .com

or telephone:

919 – 439 – 6461

We’d be happy to tailor our presentation to your group – to meet their needs. Let’s talk!

Presentation Examples:

5 Ways to Encourage Your Spouse

The basics of encouragement: hope, faith, love, prayer & action.

Using Encouragement to Stay Connected with your Spouse

Connection is key to growing a solid marriage. In this day and age it’s hard to stay connected with your spouse unless you’re deliberate. In this presentation we give examples of how you and your spouse can build a meaningful, connected life, while encouraging each other.

Pursuing Your Dreams even when You’re Married:

Just because you’re married now – perhaps 2 years or 7, 12 or 37 – doesn’t mean you can’t have dreams… This presentation is about pursuing those dreams using the power of encouragement.

Values in Marriage

We hear about “family values” – but what does that phrase really mean? Is it just empty rhetoric spouted by business leaders and politicians? Possibly. (Read a post by Robert on this topic.)

What needs to happen is each family has their own set of values – specific to their family. Values which differentiate them from other families. In this presentation participants learn about values and walk through a process to choose their own values – just for their family.