So You Want to Marry My Daughter? - The top 10 questions every dad should ask and every young man should be prepared to answer before engagement (way before!)
Paul Friesen has been married for 31 years to his wife, Virginia, and they are the parents of three wonderful young women: Kari, Lisa, and Julie. Kari was married to Gabriel Garcia in February 2007. Paul and Virginia are the founders of Home Improvement Ministries, a non-profit organization dedicated to equipping individuals and churches to better encourage marriages and families in living out God's design for healthy relationships.Paul writes, teaches, and counsels. He and Virginia regularly speak together at marriage, men's, and women's conferences across the country, as well as at family and parenting seminars, and have an ongoing ministry with several professional athletic teams. Paul and Virginia are (along with four others) co-authors of the book Restoring the Fallen, published by InterVarsity Press. In 2006, Home Improvement Ministries published Paul's book Letters to My Daughters, a series of letters he wrote to his three girls regarding the second most important decision in life: marriage.Each summer, the Friesens travel to California to serve as program directors for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Campus by the Sea family camp programs. Their daughters have joined them there each year to serve alongside their parents.Paul has a doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy and a master's degree in Family Ministry, both from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Before founding Home Improvement Ministries in 2003, he was on staff at Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he served as the Director of Men's and Family Ministries.Paul and Virginia's greatest joy in life is knowing that their children are walking in the truth.