Marriage & Family Ministry

ICIC Marriage & Family Ministry

Helping couples grow in love, faith, and lifelong unity.

ICIC’s Marriage & Family Ministry has helped restore hundreds of relationships and strengthen family life across Uganda. Through retreats, renewal conferences, and ongoing spiritual support, this ministry helps couples experience healing, deepen their faith, and build homes grounded in Christ.

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How the Program Works

The ministry follows a proven, multi-format structure:

  • Two-Day Marriage Conferences – Foundational sessions focused on communication, prayer, unity, and Christian love
  • Six-Day Marriage & Family Renewal Retreats – Extended, in-depth programs offering space for reflection, healing, and growth
  • Optional sacramental marriage ceremonies – Offered at the end of six-day retreats for couples who desire to have their civil marriage blessed by their church
  • Quarterly One-Day Follow-Up Retreats – Prior participants gather in small groups to share progress and encourage one another, followed by a closing talk

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Tangible Impact Across Uganda

According to listener reports and local leadership, the Radio Evangelization ministry has contributed to:

  • Improved relationships and reduced social conflict in villages
  • Hundreds of individuals choosing sobriety and leaving behind alcohol
  • Healthier marriages and stronger parenting
  • Better school attendance for children
  • Increased household income
  • Growth in church involvement, vocations, and small group participation
  • Greater attendance at ICIC conferences and retreats

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Why Radio Works Fort Portal and Beyond

Many communities across Uganda do not have regular access to internet, television, or large-scale Christian gatherings. Radio remains one of the most accessible, consistent ways to reach hearts and homes with the message of Christ.

The reach, affordability, and familiarity of radio makes it ICIC’s most effective tool for sharing hope, inviting new participants, and building communion.

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  • ICIC was the door for my salvation. In fact, it came for me. I started by hearing about it over the radio. They would preach and invite people for conferences and weekend programs. I first went alone for a couple’s weekend and fortunately I was accepted despite going alone. While I was at the couples’ weekend they taught about the ten commandments of marriage. I realized I was breaking all of them and marriage was miserable. It was filled with hatred and resentment. I requested the teacher to redo the talk for me and my wife the next time. We visited him and he taught us. Our marriage was healed. Now we are a happy couple. Thank you, brothers and sisters, for sponsoring these programs. – Godfrey
    Godfrey
  • My name is Joseph, a beneficiary of ICIC. This is to thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting ICIC in Uganda. I was a Catholic from childhood but Jesus was not my personal savior. I was in illicit marriage for thirteen years and I did not mind. Sin had separated me from God and my family was full of fighting and quarreling. My wife and I attend Marriage and Family Renewal Programs of ICIC and now we are teachers of couples.
    Joseph
  • We want to recognize that ICIC has brought peace and harmony in our homes and this has reduced the burden on Government in settling domestic violence. Through evangelization by ICIC, crime rate in our society has drastically reduced.
    Hon. Muhumuza Richard
    Mayor – Fort Portal, Central Division
  • Though I don't like her, I love her. And from my choice to love, I've started developing a likeness towards her. Aloysius taught at one weekend that love is not only a feeling but God's law and a choice to obey that law. He enjoined us to decide to love the difficult-to-love people because if we don't love them we displease God and keep the blessing away from ourselves. I had not been talking to my half-sister for the bad things she said about me. My heart and mind resented her. From our weekend I returned home fully resolved to love her though I did not like her. Now we are talking and I feel like a heavy load taken off my heart.
    Beth
  • When we went to the ICIC couples conference, my wife and I had been living apart for two weeks. She'd become unbearable. At the conference we were taught “loving a spouse out of a bad habit”. We returned home together and I started the ‘Love therapy’. In about a month, my wife’s bad habit had decreased 70%. It’s not yet completely gone but I am extremely relieved and I believe with more love and tolerance we shall get there.
    Robert
  • My children are very different since I started loving them differently. At ICIC parenting day we were asked if we loved our children and everyone said yes. We were taught to love more deeply and better. That’s when I learnt that I loved my children but never expressed my love to them. We were told that unexpressed love is lost love. I gave my children love names. I smile at them and caress them and give them gifts. I dismissed insulting from my language and tolerate their mistakes more than I did. My children are now happier and closer to me than ever before.
    Mathias
  • The only time I went to church was Sunday, but still very rarely. At the ICIC retreat I was seriously challenged when the preacher said that our real home and house is the house of God and we’re here on earth temporarily. He said those who practice staying in the House of the Lord on earth, will go to live with the Lord after here. The scripture Ps 84:2 “My soul yearns and faints for the courts of the Lord----” moved my heart and now I go to mass daily.
    Boniface

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My children are very different since I started loving them differently. At ICIC parenting day we were asked if we loved our children and everyone said yes. We were taught to love more deeply and better. That’s when I learnt that I loved my children but never expressed my love to them. We were told that unexpressed love is lost love. I gave my children love names. I smile at them and caress them and give them gifts. I dismissed insulting from my language and tolerate their mistakes more than I did. My children are now happier and closer to me than ever before.

Mathias

Why This Ministry Matters

Many of the families ICIC serves face deep relational wounds, economic pressure, or spiritual disconnection. These retreats provide a sacred space for couples to pause, reconnect, and rebuild.

By strengthening marriages, ICIC helps strengthen the wider community. Families become more resilient, parenting improves, and children grow up in homes filled with love and faith.

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