Stan Armes grew up in Kenya. His parents were missionaries in the rural area of North Kitui. Stan and Donna have been married over 40 years. Most of their ministry has been in Africa. They spent 10 years together in rural Kenya and have spent 13 years in urban South Africa.


Stan and Donna know first-hand the trials and hardships of family and ministry and commitment to one another. They have three daughters and ten grandchildren.


The same God made whites, blacks, and all other nations. God gives, without discrimination, the same commands to all peoples in the entire world. We believe that the biblical principles are relevant for all time and for all people and nations, past, present and future.


In order to write this book, we conducted interviews with pastors and church leaders to determine the need for marriage material. We asked what was being done in the churches to train people. Most of the pastors said that little, if nothing was being done. Many of them did not know what to do to remedy the situation. God�s view of marriage was not found in the teaching of the church. By the grace of God, we hope to plug that hole a little and help churches return to the biblical view of marriage. This whole book is actually an answer to the questions that were raised by the African pastors and leaders in the churches around us. Our desire is to see leaders trained who can then teach and train in their churches and communities.


Our vision is to see couples from all people groups use this book as a resource toward Bible-based marriages.