God, Sex and Your Marriage for Couples Facilitators – Jason and Sondra

Get to Know Jason and Sondra

Hi, We’re Jason and Sondra. We have facilitated multiple OBS groups as a couple, and Sondra has led multiple women’s groups. We were married in 1995 and were high school sweethearts. For most of our marriage, Sondra isolated from Jason, fearing true intimacy, but then God intervened and redeemed! Through OBS groups, Sondra found a safe community of believers that she could share sensitive issues with and be met with love and acceptance. Hearing stories from others helped her to unveil lies and find freedom from shame. We now work, play and do this ministry together with great joy!

We are so excited to facilitate this season and create a safe place for people to be able to process their pain – so they can also live in freedom!

Jason and Sondra are awesome leaders; so supporting, honest, humble, genuine, and gospel oriented. Personable. Kind. Enthusiastic. Humourous. And they led from a place of humility and an intimate knowing of the Lord’s work in their lives.

Sondra and Jason are a good team leading this together, and their journey and heartache shared helped the rest of us to open up a bit. The break outs allow a little more deeper conversation than in a large group. We started using the contacts and talking direct to group members, which has been a great encouragement and helpful-ministering to each other.

Get to Know Ken and Debbie

We are Ken and Debbie. We found Authentic Intimacy shortly after marrying in 2007 and used Dr. Juli’s material in developing marriage workshops for our local church as we were learning about Biblical marriage. We both carried undisclosed and unexamined sexual brokenness into this second marriage including childhood sexual abuse, infidelity, bisexual parents, porn use, and deep shame and guilt over past sexual encounters and abortions.

We are highly adept at wearing our “Church Masks” to display our “vibrant Christian life” while actually living in isolation and bondage instead of vulnerability and intimacy. Our sexual intimacy has fallen into barrenness over years of outward ministry focus and vocational successes. The lie we believed was that serving others outside of our marriage was more fulfilling than pursing intimacy within our marriage. We are now taking territory back from the enemy through participating in couples, women’s and men’s focused OBS’s. We are transparent and honest with our story, and eager to walk with other couples endeavoring to seek redemption in their stories too. In God’s Kingdom, it’s never too late for freedom and victory!

What others are saying about God, Sex and Your Marriage:

The group created a place for connecting with other couples who are learning to think the same way about God’s design for sex within marriage. We loved seeing how much our journey is like the journey of others.

The best part of this group was connecting with other married couples who are navigating the same issues. It’s good to know that we are not alone in our struggles. We also appreciated the accountability to read and engage with the material. This group helped my husband and I talk about our issues as we learned from others, especially during break out groups. Finally, we appreciated Julie and Mike coming along and sharing their wisdom.

We joined this study together as the AI site and material has hugely blessed us. We got involved because we saw truth and wisdom there, and we had issues. I get the feeling that most people doing the courses have issues. There is so much hurt and confusion out there and we so appreciate you fighting the battle for healing and reclamation of our marriages and our sexuality, and our intimacy with God.

We loved the community of people in the group. We aren’t alone. I wish we could keep meeting. It was nice to have like minded people give wisdom and insight. The group became a place where couples could have honest and transparent conversations about marriage and sexuality every single week!