Help!! Volunteering for Engaged Encounter gives you a rare opportunity to both share your time and talent and renew your marriage at the same time. As a community of families and priests focused on building and maintaining healthy relationships, Engaged Encounter provides an atmosphere of communication, openness and growth. Engaged Encounter also provides a sense of hope and inspiration, with an opportunity to change the world in a practical and effective way: by helping couples build a strong and healthy marriage.

As a 100% volunteer ministry, we could not be successful without the support of the many people who help out each retreat weekend. It takes dozens of people to put on a retreat weekend, with many couples working behind the scenes to handle business, logistics, and other critical functions.

Consider how you can help our community:

Presenting Teams: These are the teams that share their marriage experience with the engaged couples on the weekend retreat. Each presenting team consists of a priest, a junior couple (typically married less than 7 years), and a senior couple.

Host Teams: These teams greet all of our engaged couples when they check in for the weekend and help them get settled in.

Prayer Couples: These teams pray for the all the engaged couples, presenting teams, and religious during each weekend.

Weekend Support Teams: These teams help prepare and serve meals throughout the weekend as well as provide other needed support.

Logistics Support: These people provide critical support by ensuring that all required material and supplies are available for each retreat weekend.

Volunteer Coordinator: One of the most important roles, these people coordinate the scheduling of volunteers for each retreat weekend.

For more information on how you can support our ministry, please contact Pete and Tammy Derbort at (719) 481-8784 or email us at ptrderbort@yahoo.com