Welcome to One Flesh Ministries
We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening marriages and relationships through emotional maturity and relational insight. We help individuals, couples, and families develop healthier communication, emotional maturity, and stronger relationships.
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To strengthen individuals, couples, and families by helping them develop emotional maturity, relational health, and whole-person well-being. Through coaching, education, and resources, we help people create healthier connections in every area of life.
One Flesh Ministries exists to help individuals grow into emotionally healthy people who can build meaningful, lasting relationships. While we are passionate about strengthening marriages, our mission extends to all relationships, including families, friendships, and personal connections.
Founded by Terry and Carol Moss, the nonprofit ministry is dedicated to strengthening marriages and relationships through biblical principles. Drawing on more than two decades of teaching, coaching, and mentoring, they guide individuals, couples, and churches toward emotional growth, relational insight, and meaningful transformation. Together, they bring over 50 years of ministry experience to their work as relationship coaches, mentors, and authors.
Their work has shown that healthy marriages begin with healthy individuals, and the same principles apply to every relationship. Through coaching, education, and community programs, One Flesh Ministries helps people build stronger connections throughout their lives.
They have written In the Beginning It Was Not So: Seven Marriage Lessons Learned in the Garden and Whole You Before Two: How Emotional Wholeness Transforms Every Relationship, and they lead the Marriage by Design program and online platform serving couples around the world, including in East Africa.
Terry, a retired insurance executive, and Carol, a former federal government professional, have been married nearly 20 years. They live in Lake Worth, Florida, and remain active in their local church community.
Our work is shaped by our Christian faith and the belief that every person is created with inherent value, purpose, and the capacity for transformation. While our compassion is faith-rooted, our programs are designed for and open to all people. We believe these principles help people strengthen marriages, families, and relationships of all kinds.
Emotional & Relational Growth for Every Season of Life
Transformational, instructor-led group sessions to help you grow emotionally, communicate clearly,
and build healthier relationships.
One-on-one relational guidance focused on wholeness, clarity, and connection.
Tools and strategies to help households cultivate calm, connection, and emotional resilience.
Workshops and resources for congregations and community groups seeking to strengthen
marriages, families, and emotional wellness.
We're here to walk with you.
If you are unsure which path fits your current season, we are here to help. Whether you start with our Growth Pathway Quiz to identify your specific needs or prefer a direct conversation, we will point you in the right direction toward relational health and emotional wholeness.
A relationship coach is there to help individuals or couples build healthier, more fulfilling relationships—whether that’s dating, marriage, friendships, or even your relationship with yourself.
A coach is someone who can unlock your true potential. Someone who can be there to help you stay on track. Someone you’ll be accountable to. Someone who can help you get things done.
A coach’s purpose is guidance, clarity, and growth, not therapy or diagnosing issues.
As coaches, our ultimate motive is to see our couples do well. This is not just in their marriage, but in their families, businesses and/or careers. There are some ancillary goals as well – like freedom, mental peace, productivity, etc. But it’s the growth and health of your relationship that matters the most to a relationship coach. A coach can help you figure out:
What you truly want in a partner
Whether a relationship is healthy
A coach focuses on present & future, growth, and action steps.
A relationship coach helps you do relationships better on purpose, instead of just reacting to them.
Even superstars need coaches. The top singers in the world have voice coaches, and the top Olympic athletes have coaches. The top CEOs have business coaches. Coaches help you maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.
Counseling often looks at the past to help you better understand the present. Counselors are trained to diagnose, and tend to look at relationships from more of a medical model where they diagnose and prescribe (give advice).
At One Flesh Ministries we refer addictions, abuse, mental health issues, and depression to counselors who are trained to deal with these un-coachable issues.
Consulting involves solving a specific problem of a couple. By nature, consulting is a one-time activity or assignment.
Coaching (marriage) focuses specifically on helping a couple better understand one another and move to creating agreements about what they will do differently to get different results. Coaching addresses listening to understand, anger, bitterness, forgiveness, resolving conflict, solving problems, dealing with differences, intimacy and moving forward.
Coaching takes you from where you are to where you want to be. Coaches help you determine what will work for you. By nature, coaching is a recurring assignment. Also, coaching is more practical & hands-on than consulting.
Coaching is confidential and coaches only address what you bring up. The couples who see the best results are those who are open and honest. Coaches cannot help you create solutions to issues that are not discussed.
A Christian relationship coach is a spiritually mature friend and accountability partner who gets real with you and points out sin and weakness, while also encouraging your strengths and growth. They help you stay on the path of God’s purpose for you.
Both counseling and coaching provide solutions to get you closer to the life you want to be living. Some say that counselors work on the “why” of the problem, whereas coaching focuses on the “how” to get out of the problem; they also say that counselors will look at the past and coaches will look at the future.
Yes, absolutely; but only when you’re willing to put in the required effort. For a coaching assignment to succeed, it’s important that both the coach & the coached have the same level of commitment.
You don’t hire a coach—whether to help you with money, business, relationships, or sports—because you’re stupid.
You hire a coach because they’re not you.
Other people can see things you clearly cannot see.
Your job is twofold:
If you can do that, you may learn to see what you were previously blind to. And that can be incredibly helpful in relationships, business, or life in general.
Can We Benefit from Marriage Coaching?
If you do decide to explore marriage coaching, know that you are not admitting defeat. In fact, you are doing the very opposite: You are prioritizing your relationship and the future of your marriage.
