UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA FCA NEWSLETTER February 20, 2002

FUN FCA MEETING TONIGHT AS SIX COUPLES TELL HOW THEY MET

9 O’CLOCK AT THE COLLEGE ANNEX

Most college students go through the days wandering when and where they will meet their lifelong marriage partner. Many meet their spouses in college. For some it is years after college before they meet Mr. or Mrs. Right. It can be a frustrating ordeal playing the dating game.

Tonight, four marriage couples and two soon to be married couples are going to share how they met their marriage partner. Each will take about five minutes to tell their story which promises to be lots of fun as these stories usually are.

Tyler Harris and Elisa Hackney plan to marry in May and Jonathan Richey and Stephanie Dailey plan to wed in June. The married couples to share are: Former athletes John David and Reagan (Croyle) Phillips, who were married last December; FCA Area Rep Chris and Diane Hilliker; FCA friend John and Cindy Merrill; and FCA Advisor Wayne and Barbara Atcheson.

February always connotes “Love” and especially since we celebrated Valentine’s Day last week. God has a special person for those who wait patiently and allow Him to reveal his plan for you. Come and enjoy these stories and be encouraged.

FCA meets at the Calvary Baptist College Annex on Paul Bryant Drive at 9.

* * THOUGHTS * *

“When you marry, it’s not because you’ve found the best spouse in the whole wide world, but because you’ve found one about whom you care very much, and you decide to share your life with that person, faults included”…Phyllis Naylor

“Falling in love is easy; growing in love must be worked at with determination as well as imagination”…Lesley Barfoot

“The highest happiness on earth is in marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else”…William Lyon Phelps

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave”…Martin Luther

“You are ready to date and marry when…you have a silhouette in your mind of the kind of guy or girl you choose to marry, and when you have resolved in your heart that you will not settle for less…when you are willing to be single rather than to make a bad choice of a marriage partner…when you are becoming the person that your ideal mate is praying about meeting”…Tommy Nelson