Marriage Coaching Biographies

Nadja and Simon Waelchli

Nationalities: Switzerland

City/Nation where you live: Wiler b. Seedorf, Switzerland

Languages you can coach in: German, English

Years married: 11+ / verheiratet seit 11+ Jahren

Experience in marriage ministry:
Serving in the area of marriage for more than five years, in different settings – Marriage Weekends, Events for pre-marital Couples, seminars, marriage courses, Couples Discipleship Training School, 1 on 1 coaching & premarital counseling.

The type of couples we like to help:

Young couples, per-married and early years of marriage
Couples in transition
Couples with small kids
Couples who also want to start investing into other marriages too.

Contact: simon.waelchli@jmemwiler.ch

Thiéry and Rebecca Terraz

Nationalities: Swiss / Suisses

City/Nation where you live: Switzerland / Suisse

Languages you can coach in: English and French / Anglais et français

Years married: 11 year / 11 ans

Experience in marriage ministry:
We have completed our training as marriage coaches, and have helped several couples. Avons coaché quelques couples

We are willing to coach any couple, but if we feel like we are not the right people we might refer you to someone else.
Qu’importe, mais si nous avons l’impression que nous ne sommes pas les bonnes personnes pour vous nous vous référerons à quelqu’un d’autre.

Contact: thiery.terraz@gmail.com

Yura and Tanya Sokolovskyy

Nationalities: Ukrainian

City/Nation where you live: Kyiv, Ukraine

Languages you can coach in: Ukrainian, English, and Russian

Years in marriage: 28

Experience in marriage ministry:
We have been In Family Ministry with YWAM 25 years. Teaching in Seminaries, colleges, and schools about family. Doing pre-marriage and marriage counseling.

The type of couples you like to help (ie, pre-married, couples in crisis, couples in transition, couples living cross-culturally, couples struggling to partner together):
– We have been working with all of those cases.

Contact: sokilsfamily@gmail.com

Український
Ми в шлюбі 28 років. Маємо 2 дорослих сина. Один вже одружений.
Ми працюємо з сім”ями тому що отримали це покликання від Бога. Ми хочемо
бачити пари , які знають як будувати міцний шлюб та слідують своєму покликанню

Вже 25 років ми в служінні сім’ям разом із «Молодь з Місією». Викладаємо в семінаріях, коледжах, школах. Підготовка до шлюбу, шлюбне та кризове консультування, Семінари та тренінги на сімейну тематику.

Пари з якими ми працюємо: ті хто готується до шлюбу, пари в кризовому стані, пари які проходять через складні моменти життя, міжкультурні пари, пари, які намагаються налагодити стосунки

Ви можете зв”язатися з нами через E-mail: sokilsfamily@gmail.com

Русский:

Мы, Юрий и Татьяна Соколовские в супружестве уже 28 лет. У нас двое взрослых сыновей. Один из них уже женат.

– Мы начали семейное служение потому что получили призыв от Бога. Мы желаем видеть супругов, которые знают, как построить здоровые отношения и следовать своему призванию.

– Вот уже 25 лет мы находимся в семейном служении с YWAM. Преподаём в семинариях, колледжах, школах по вопросам семьи. Готовим пары перед вступления в брак и обучаем и консультируем кризисные пары. Проводим семинары.

– Мы работаем с парами готовим их к супружеству, обучаем супругов как улучшать взаимоотношения и быть более успешными, помогаем супругам проходящим через кризисы, консультируем межкультурные браки и т.д.

Вы можете написать нам на e-mail: sokilsfamily@gmail.com

Wayne and Sharol Mitchell

Nationalities: Grenadian/St Lucian

City/Nation where you live: Grenada

Languages you can coach in: English

Years married:19 years

Experience in marriage ministry:
We have been working with couples, helping them turn conflicts into powerful tools to build strong relationships. It has also been great to help us keep checking in on our own marriage.

The type of couples you like to help:
Pre-married, couples in crisis, couples in transition, couples living cross-culturally, and couples struggling to partner together.

Contact: mitchmissiom@gmail.com or WhatsApp 1 473 420-0279

Mihai and Mirela Doci

Nationalities: Romanian

City/Nation where you live: Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Languages you can coach in: Romanian and English

Years married: 18

Experience in marriage ministry:
Since 2015, we are accredited Prepare-Enrich facilitators and we’ve been mostly coaching pre-marital couples and young professionals couples. After we passed through the middle-age crisis, we love to coach couples during the transition from success searching to significance.

The type of couples we like to help:
Pre-married, couples in transition, couples struggling to partner together in life and business.

Contact: mmdoci@gmail.com or book an appointment on Calendly here: Calendly.com/mmdoci-coaching

Kai and Daniela Köhler

Nationalities: Germany

Nation where you live: Switzerland

Languages you can coach in: German, English

Years married: 22

Experience in marriage ministry:
• With YWAM Family Ministries in Wiler, Switzerland for four years
• Trained to be trainers in Together Marriage Coaching
• We have done coaching and premarital counseling with several couples
• Hosting marriage events for groups online and in person.

Type of couples we like to help:
Pre-married, couples that need help to communicate more effectively with each other; couples struggling to partner together, e.g. in ministry or in a certain family lifestyle; couples in transition

Contact: kai.koehler@gmx.ch

Ned and Jorid Spiecker

Nationalities: American and Norwegian

City/Nation where you live: Tirana, Albania

Languages you can coach in: English, Albanian and Norwegian

Years married: Almost 26 years!
Së shpejti jemi martuar për 26 vjet
Vi har snart vært gift i 26 år.

Pse jemi të apasionuar për të ndihmuar martesat?
Ne besojmë se çdo komb dhe kishë e fortë është e ndërtuar mbi martesa të forta dhe dhurata më e mirë që mund t’u bëjmë fëmijëve tanë është të kemi një martesë të forte
Hvorfor brenner vi for å hjelpe ekteskap?
Vi tror at den beste gaven vi kan gi til våre barn er at vi har et godt og sterkt ekteskap. Et velfungerende samfunn og sunne menigheter består av par med gode relasjoner og sterke ekteskap.

Experience in marriage ministry:
We have been working with families and couples since 2001 after doing our Family Ministry School (FMS) in Norway.
Përvojë në sherbesen e martesës
Ne kemi punuar me familje dhe çifte që nga viti 2001 pasi bëmë Shkollën tonë të Shërbimit të Familjes në Norvegji.
Erfaring i ekteskapstjeneste:
Vi har jobbet med familier og par siden 2001, etter at vi gikk på FMS I Norge.

We are happy to meet with any couple that desires to grow together!
Lloji i çifteve që ju pëlqen të ndihmoni: Ne jemi të lumtur të takohemi me çdo çift që ka dëshirë të rriten së bashku

Hvilken type par du liker å hjelpe: Vi er glade for å møte med par som ønsker å vokse i relasjon til hverandre.

Contact: Spiecker5@gmail.com

Juris and Kristine Bekeri-Brivkalni

Nationalities: Latvians

City/Nation where you live: Liepaja, Latvia

Languages you can coach in: English; Russian; Latvian

Years married: 20

Experience in marriage ministry:
Pioneering family ministries in Latvia since 2013. Building family retreat center.
Working with YWAM family schools internationally.

The type of couples you like to help:
• pre-married
• couples struggling to partner together
• couples in crisis

Contact: flurisbebe@gmail.com
+37120025121 Juris

Karen and Ole Andersen

Nationalities: Denmark

City/Nation where you live: Norway

Languages you can coach in: English/Norwegian/Danish

Years married: 37 years (married 1985)

Experience in marriage ministry: We have worked with YWAM family ministries for more than 26 years, the last 17 as full-time staff. 8 years in Denmark, 1 year in Australia, and since 2015 in Norway.

The type of couples you like to help:
primarily pre-married couples, couples that desire deeper connection in their marriage and couples that are in a season of transition.

Contact: ole.andersen@ywam.no / karen.andersen@ywam.no

Joey and Jane Peter

Nationalities: Indian

City/Nation where you live: Vancouver, Canada

Languages you can coach in: English

Years married: 9

Experience in marriage ministry:
We take every opportunity to encourage couples to pursue their Father’s calling together through words of knowledge and prophecy. We were introduced to marriage coaching by David and Nancy, and we recently graduated with their 2020 batch.

We want to be available to all couples and especially those in transition and/or struggling to partner together

Contact: joey.peter@gmail.com; janepeter811@gmail.com

Samuel and Rachel Warne

Nationalities: New Zealand

City/Nation where you live: Rapla, Estonia

Languages you can coach in: English

Years married: 11

Experience in marriage ministry:
Leading and developing Couples’ Discipleship Training Schools, coaching couples, pre-marriage courses, marriage retreats, and evening couples’ events.

The type of couples you like to help:
Couples desiring to see growth in their relationship, and pre-married.

Contact: Samuel.Rachael@gmail.com

Vitalie and Inga Gavril

Nationalities: Moldova

City/Nation where we live: Moldova

Languages we can coach in: Romanian, Russian, and English

Years married: 15

Experience in marriage ministry: Three years

The type of couples we like to help:
Pre-married, couples who are struggling to partner together, Christian couples who need help, and also those couples who need to grow continually in their relationship.

Contact: vitalie.gavril@cru.md inga.gavril@cru.md
Or on WhatsApp: +37369150253
+37369002247

Ingrid and Kristian Haus

Nationalities: Norwegian

City/Nation where you live: Stavanger, Norway

Languages you can coach in: Norwegian and English

Years married: 16 years

Experience in marriage ministry:
Attended Family Ministry School, Spring 2018 and Marriage Coaching course, Spring 2020. We have been a part of facilitating three different marriage courses, guided two couples through a premarital course, and coached two couples using the GROW model.

Vi tok Family Ministry School våren 2018 og Marriage Coaching course våren 2020. Vi har vært en del av å arrangere tre ulike ekteskapskurs, ledet to par gjennom før-ekteskapskurs og coach-et to par med GROW-modellen.

We would like to help pre-married couples, couples in transition, couples in crisis, and couples struggling to partner together.

Vi ønsker å hjelpe par som ennå ikke er gifte, par i overgangsfaser, par i krise og par som sliter med å samarbeide.

Contact: familienhaus@gmail.com

Tone-Hennie and Helge Slettvoll

Nationalities: Norwegian

City/Nation where you live: Oslo, Norway

Languages you can coach in: Norwegian, English

Years married: 35 (1988)

Experience in marriage ministry:
Leading groups for couples in family camps. Pre-marriage counseling.
Participating many years in Marriage Encounter circles.

NO:
Gruppeledere for par på mange familieleire. Førekteskapelig veiledning.
Mange år i ekteskapsdialog-sirkel (ED)

The type of couples you like to help:
Ordinary couples who are not in the deepest crisis, but still want to communicate on a deeper level. Both young couples and couples who have been together for many years are welcome!

NO:
Vanlige par som ikke har de største krisene, men som ønsker å kommunisere på et dypere plan. Både unge par og par som har levd lengre sammen er velkommen.

Contact:
Tone-Hennie Slettvoll, tslettv@online.no, +47 98424317
Helge Slettvoll, helge@slauto.no, +47 99468978

Benjamin and Daniela Simion

Nationality: Romanian

City/Nation where you live: Medias, Romania

Languages you can coach in: English, Romanian

Years married: 12 years (married since July 4, 2009)

Experience in marriage ministry:

Leading Family Ministry Romania in YWAM since 2015
Family Ministry School in YWAM – 2015

The type of couples you like to help: Pre-married and young couples

Contact:
e-mail: benjamin.daniela@gmail.com
WhatsApp/phone: Benjamin: +40742684478
Daniela: +40742431208

Cliff and Jenni Warne

Nationalities: New Zealanders, living in Auckland, New Zealand

Languages you can coach in: English

Years married: 37 years

Experience in marriage ministry: 10 years part-time, plus the last six years full-time.

We feel called to help any couple who is eager to grow!

Contact: cliffandjenni@gmail.co.nz or info@excelmarriages.co.nz

Andrii and Ella Fesenko

Nationalities: Ukrainians

City/Nation where you live: Poland

Languages you can coach in: Russian, Ukrainian

Years married: 23

Experience in marriage ministry:
Мы можем помогать парам в предбрачный период, парам,в переходном периоде жизни и служения и тем, которые ищут примирения.

Couples we would like to help include pre-married, couples in transition, and couples struggling to partner together.

Contact: Andrii: fesenkoministry@gmail.com Ella: ella.fesenko.inpl@gmail.com

Håvard and Weng Haus

Nationalities: Norwegian and Filipino

City/Nation where you live: Norway

Languages you can coach in: English and Norwegian

Years married: 22 years

Experience in marriage ministry:
Pre-marriage course, Together coach training, Various training through churches.
Marriage counseling

The type of couples you like to help:
We are open to all couples, but we especially like to focus on couples in crisis, and couples living cross-culturally.

Contact: calendly.com/havard_and_weng

João & Lydia

Nationalities: Brazilian and Dutch / Brasileira e Holandesa

City/Nation where you live: Curitiba, Brazil

Languages you can coach in: Portuguese and English/ Português e Inglês

Years married: 10 years/ 10 anos

Experience in marriage ministry:
We have mostly done premarital mentoring. We followed the marriage coaching course in 2021 and would like to help other couples with what we learned.
Atuamos com mentoria de casais de namorados, preparando-os para o casamento. Fizemos o curso de coaching de casais em 2021 e gostaríamos de ajudar outros casais com o que aprendemos.

The type of couples you like to help:
Pre-marriage, couples in transition, couples in a cross-cultural relationship or context, and couples who have difficulty partnering.
Queremos ajudar casais de namorados preparando-os para casamento, casais em transição, casais transculturais e casais com dificuldade de trabalhar em equipe.

Contact: Lvanbottenburg@yahoo.com (Lydia) Pr_jbatista@yahoo.com.br (João).

Tom and Sarah Haig

Nationalities: British

City/Nation where you live: Blantyre, Malawi

Languages you can coach in: English

Years married: 7

Experience in marriage ministry:

We completed the together marriage coaching training earlier this year and have discovered a passion for supporting marriage through coaching. We have been able to coach one other couple since completing the training and hope to coach more couples in the future.

The type of couples we like to help:
Couples living cross-culturally, couples struggling to partner, couples in leadership, couples from an African context, and recently married couples.

Contact: tomhaig@outlook.com

Charles & Lydia Wilson

Nationalities: Malawians

City/Nation where we live: Blantyre, Malawi

Languages we can coach in: Chichewa and English.

Years married: 6

Experience in marriage ministry: We have been coaching many couples, and we have also done marriage workshops in a group setting. For the past 2 years we have been training church leaders from around Malawi.

The type of couples we like to help: Couples in crisis, couples in transition, couples struggling to partner together

Joachim & Luciene Junginger

Nationalities: German & Brazilian

City/Nation where we live: Hainichen – Germany

Languages we can coach in: English, Portuguese

Years married: 15 years.

Experience in marriage ministry: we are working for 6 years with family ministries in YWAM Hainichen, have done several trainings and lead 2 family ministry schools.

We started coaching (intercultural) couples about 4 years ago.

The type of couples you like to help: Couples living cross-culturally, intercultural couples (pre-married and married)

Contact: joachim.junginger@ywam-hainichen.de

Peter & Shelly Christianson

Nationalities: Canadian

City/Nation where we live: Chico, California, USA

Languages we can coach in: English

Years married: 35

Experience in marriage ministry: We have been working in Family Ministries for 5 years, and have taken several marriage courses to better prepare us to walk with others, including Marriage Coaching, Love After Marriage, Love & Respect, and The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. We currently lead Family Ministries and Family Discipleship Training School at YWAM Chico. We walk with couples in the school, on our base, and in our church.

The type of couples we like to help: We work with couples looking for greater breakthrough, couples in crisis, couples in transition, and couples struggling to partner together.

Heikki and Elise Pirkola

Nationalities: Finnish

City/Nation where we live: Helsinki, Finland

Languages we can coach in: Finnish and English

Years married: 16

Why we are passionate about helping marriages: Because we have gone through so many breakthroughs with these coaching tools that we believe they are helpful for others as well. No matter what situation a couple is struggling with, coaching can help!

Experience in marriage ministry: We have held marriage seminars for bigger audiences and coached several couples over the last 6 years.

The type of couples we like to help: We are happy to work with any couples, as long as there is a willingness by both parties.

Markus und Marianne Zaugg

Nationalities: Switzerland

City/Nation where we live: in a small village between Bern and Zürich (Switzerland)

Languages we can coach in: German and English

Years married: Married in 1994

Experience in marriage ministry: We have done many marriage preparation courses with young couples. We did marriage coaching with several couples.

We took part and completed the marriage coach training level 1 and 2 with Nancy and David Harper and have co-led Marriage Coach Training for German-speakers.

The type of couples we like to help: We don’t have one focus. For us is important that there is trust between us and the couple.

marianne@mzaugg.ch

David and Nancy Harper

Both David and Nancy are Canadian, although David was born in Zimbabwe to missionary parents

Currently living in Nanaimo, Canada

Languages we coach in: Sadly, only English!

Years married: 39

Why are we passionate about helping marriages? Marriage is the core of society. If we can help transform a marriage, we strengthen a family, a community and an entire nation.

Experience in marriage ministry: We have had marriage as our central ministry focus for the past 10 years. We teach on relationships and marriage in YWAM schools in many nations. We also run
marriage workshops and train marriage coaches. We were originally trained as marriage coaches in 2009.

Our primary focus is on missionary and leadership couples. We realize that if we can strengthen
missionary marriages, they will likely be able to sustain fruitful ministry for many more years.

Tobias and Kayla Wahl

Nationalities: Swedish and Canadian Sueco y Canadiense

City/Nation where we live: Santiago, Dominican Republic Santiago, Republica Dominicana

Languages we can coach in: English, Spanish, Swedish Ingles, Español, Sueco

Years married: 9 years 9 años

Experience in marriage ministry: We minister informally to marriages through opening our home and creating a space for conversation. We lead a YWAM base centered on discipleship of youth, some of whom are now starting to build their own families. Ministramos a matrimonios de manera informal, a través de abrir nuestro hogar y crear un espacio para conversaciones. Dirigimos un centro de JUCUM enfocado en el discipulado de jóvenes, algunos de los cuales ya están formando sus propias familias.

The type of couples we like to help: We especially enjoy ministering to couples with whom we can identify: premarital couples, young marriages, parents of young children, cross-cultural marriages, and couples working together in ministry Nos gusta especialmente ministrar a parejas con quienes nos podemos identificar: parejas prematrimoniales, recien-casados, padres de hijos pequeños, matrimonios trans-culturales, y parejas trabajando juntos en el ministerio.

Rebeka Heath (Beka) / Nicholas Smith (Nik)

Nationalities: American

City/Nation where we live: Chico, CA USA

Languages we can coach in: English

Years married: 15

Experience in marriage ministry: Marriage Coach Training with Together, staffing YWAM Family Discipleship Training School for 2 years, running couples/family Bible studies.

We like to help pre-marrieds, couples in transition, and couples with children.

Iven & Kashmira Hauptman

Nationalities: USA

City/Nation where we live: Burlington, WA, USA

Languages we can coach in: English and Thai

Years married: 17

Experience in marriage ministry: Lots of informal connection with couples, leading to intentional conversation and transparent sharing about where we as husband and wife are able to move towards one another and where we get stuck. Two years now of working with the GROW model taught by TOGETHER.

We love to help couples living cross-culturally, couples with young children, families in ministry together, couples working with ministry involvement in the sex-industry / intense urban environments, those pursuing incarnational ministry.

Names: Ali and Mphatso Kadinde

Nationalities: Malawian

City/Nation where we live: Zomba, Malawi

Languages we can coach in: English and Chichewa

Years married: 10

Experience in marriage ministry: God has placed couples in our own ministry that have needed coaching. We also discovered that we really love coaching cross-cultural relationships.

The type of couples we like to help: We like to help pre-married couples, young couples, and couples in crisis.

Contact us here:

Ali: alikadinde@gmail.com

Cell and WhatsApp: +265 995 69 96 31

Mphatso: mphatsosekondi@gmail.com

Cell and WhatsApp: +265 995 71 42 45

Names: Branden and Valorie Dalberg

Nationalities: Branden – Canadian, Val – American

City/Nation where we live: Dryden, Ontario, Canada

Languages we can coach in: English

Years married: 9

Experience in marriage ministry: We have served together for 6 years with YWAM in both developing and developed countries. We have had lots of first-hand experience on navigating our relationship while being part of a big team. We have also served in more isolated settings. We were married for 5 years before having kids and now have 1 and 4-yr-olds, so we appreciate the new challenges this brings to marriage. We understand the tension of having both partners in ministry and navigating those roles cohesively with kids in the mix.

Throughout our travels and ministry time we have had many opportunities to coach and mentor young couples (and even encourage those who are older!)

The type of couples we like to help: Pre-married, couples in transition, couples struggling to partner together, couples with kids, couples struggling with infertility or miscarriage

Contact us here: dalbergs17@gmail.com

Names: Bischof Manuela & Johannes

Nationalities: Switzerland / Schweiz

City/Nation where you live: Dresden Germany / Deutschland

Languages we can coach in: English / Deutsch

Years married: 30 Years / Jahre

Experience in marriage ministry:

25 years YWAM staff in the Kings Kids and Family Ministry, staff in several Family
DTSs, Family Inspiration Day Coaches, REAPP Coaches.
Seit 25 Jahren Mitarbeiter von JMEM in den Bereichen Kings Kids und Familiendienst,
Mitarbeiter in mehreren Familien Jüngerschaftsschulen, Familien-Mutmach-Tag Leiter,
PEPP Ehekurs Anleiter
The type of couples you like to help (ie, pre-married, couples in crisis, couples in transition,
couples living cross-culturally, couples struggling to partner together)
We are basically open to any couple situation.
Wir sind grundsätzlich für jede Paarsituation offen.
Contact us here: hama@bischof-dd.de

Names: Myriam & Philip Opere

Nationalities: Swiss & Kenyan

City/Nation where we live: Frutigen, Switzerland

Languages we can coach in: English, German, Swiss German

Years married: 13 years (2010)

Experience in marriage ministry: We were trained as Marriage Coaches in 2022.

The type of couples we like to help: cross-cultural couples, and couples who are trying to understand themselves.

Contact us here: myphopere@gmail.com