Book Overview

Making Your Marriage Deployment Ready is a small group study designed to help military couples stand together when duty calls them apart.

Receiving orders for deployment can be unsettling. The reality of family separation sinks in and anxiety hovers over each remaining day you have together. Questions surface: Can our marriage endure the stress of being apart? How will I handle the kids and the house on my own? Will my spouse return safely to me?

Prepare to stay connected by:

• identifying deployment tripwires that threaten marriage,
• developing an operational marriage plan for successful deployment,
• discovering the keys to a strong spiritual foundation, and
• smoothing the return home.

You will discover that, much like military duty, marriage success hinges on courage, resilience, faith, and honor.

Making Your Marriage Deployment Ready was formerly part of the FamilyLife HomeBuilders Couples Series®.

Author Information

Mike and Linda Montgomery were high school sweethearts who married in 1970. Their next twenty-three years were spent moving around the world as an Air Force family until Mike’s retirement as a colonel in 1995. They are the parents of two married children and, if asked, are sure to tell you about their 10 grandchildren. Mike and Linda currently serve as full-time staff with Cru Valor at Virginia Tech where their mission is discipling young ROTC cadets and developing outreach to military veterans on campuses.

Published authors, they have co-authored Bible studies for military couples, empty-nesters, and devotional material about deployment and military life on the blog ExcellentOrPraiseworthy.org. The Montgomery’s helped establish the special military events at FamilyLife’s Weekend to Remember marriage getaways and continue to encourage churches in outreach to marriages and to military families.

Keith and Sharon Morgan have been married since 1984. They have two adult daughters, Angela and Christina. Keith retired from the Army in 2004, having completed twenty-six years of active duty. He retired as a colonel after serving in a wide variety of command and staff assignments in the United States, Europe, Korea, and southwest Asia. Keith and Sharon minister to military couples through small-group studies and by speaking at Military Marriage and pre-marriage events. The Morgans live in Washington, DC.