Volunteer

Volunteering for Engaged Encounter gives you a rare opportunity to both share and renew your marriage at the same time. As a community of families and priests focused on building and maintaining healthy relationships, Engaged Encounter provides an atmosphere of communication, openness and growth. Engaged Encounter also provides a sense of hope and inspiration, with an opportunity to change the world in a practical and effective way: by helping couples build a strong and healthy marriage.

But don't take our word for it. Listen to what some of the engaged couples have said:

“You blew our minds with your honesty, generosity, and willingness to share.”

“There is no question in my mind that the selfless and courageous sharing provided by our presenting couples was the catalyst that encouraged us to be open, honest, and spiritual.”

“The environment of trust and writing things out really helped me to communicate with my partner, who tends to be a verbal communicator. It gave me new opportunities of ‘talking’.”

“Your more subtle approach to bringing God and spirituality into the discussion drew me in deeply.”

“I can't express how grateful we are to you. You have helped bring even more love to our lives.”

“You guys are a great inspiration to us. Please continue to do your work. Our prayers are with you all the time.”

Engaged Encounter is entirely a volunteer ministry and we need you to make it happen. It takes a large team to put on a retreat weekend, with many couples working behind the scenes to handle business and logistics.

Consider the following opportunities for involvement:

• Presenting teams: These are the teams that share their marriage experience to the engaged couples on the weekend.
• Host teams: These teams greet all of our engaged couples and help them get settled in.
• Prayer teams: These teams pray for the all the engaged couples, presenting teams and religious on the weekend.
• Newsletter team: This team produces the monthly newsletter and updates our website.
• Banner/Creative team: This team creates visual displays for our retreat center.

...and more. These are just an example. We also have couples managing our resources, finances, scheduling, supplies, and registration. If you have a skill, we can put it to use to benefit the Engaged Encounter Ministry.

For more information contact our Information Couple: info @sfcee.org.