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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="042785a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Chaucer" ><B>Foundations Newsletter for Newly Married Couples</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Foundations Newsletter for Newly Married"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>About Us</B>   |   <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Products and Services"><U>Products and Services</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="For Leaders"><U>For Leaders</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="043d2b03.jpg"> <div> "Foundations identified a pastoral </div> <div> need, reached out to respond, and</div> <div>  now fills an important niche in a</div> <div>  comprehensive ministry to</div> <div>  sustain marriages over a lifetime."</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Rick McCord, Executive Director</div> <div> USCCB Committee on Marriage and Family Life</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>About Us</I></div> <div> Steve and Kathy Beirne, editors and publishers of Foundations, have been married for almost 40 years. They have lived in Massachusetts, Missouri and Maine (as well as New York and New Jersey). They draw on their own personal experience of marriage, as well as their over 20 years of work as marriage educators. Kathy has an MA from the University of Missouri in Child and Family Development, and Steve has extensive experience as a speaker on topics of marriage and family life. Together they have written one book and dozens of articles for nationalpublications. Basically, they see themselves as cheerleaders for new marriages. They know that establishing good skills at the beginning of a marriage is easier and more sensible than trying to change bad habits after they begin to hurt.</div> <bR> <div> Steve and Kathy have been publishing Foundations for the past 15 years.</div> <bR> <div> <I>About the Newsletter</I></div> <bR> <div> Our goal is to offer resources for couples starting on the journey of married life. No matter how old you are or what your previous experience is, if you are beginning a marriage you have some unique challenges and opportunities ahead of you.</div> <bR> <div> Newly married couples have a lifetime of experiences to meld together into one unit. How will you manage your finances? How will you relate to one another's families? What is your attitude toward the spiritual side of life? How do you like to spend your spare time?</div> <bR> <div> Foundations newletter takes each of these issues and many others and discusses them in the context of this stage of relationship.It teaches skills that enable a couple to learn healthy ways to handle whatever challenges they are presented with.</div> <bR> <div> When a couple is expecting a baby, researchers have found that they are not interested in learning parenting skills. It's only once the baby is born and they are holding it in their arms that they realize that they need help knowing how to care for their child.</div> <bR> <div> Similarly, couples getting married often feel that their love is enough to enable them to over come all obstacles. But as the marriage pregresses,sometimes things come up that create ripples in the fabric of their love. Foundations aims to be the guide that presents some options of reacting to each other, and of handling the normal stresses  of married life.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>