Saving Urban Marriage is a division of For Better For Worse For Keeps Ministries, a non-profit ministry founded in 2009 dedicated to healing hearts and restoring marriages in underserved communities. But the ministry was perhaps truly started 35 years ago with the marriage of Bob and Cheryl Moeller on June 16, 1979. Bob and Cheryl met after college in seminary and were united in marriage.

Both Bob and Cheryl committed their lives to Christ at a young age. Bob felt God’s call to full time Christian ministry at age 12 in Minnesota and Cheryl at age 9 in Michigan. Both Bob and Cheryl grew up in urban churches, Bob in Minneapolis and Cheryl in Detroit and Flint, Michigan. It was there they first developed their passion for serving under-served communities.

While serving as pastor of numerous urban churches their hearts have always been drawn to encourage couples in their marriages. That’s why in 1993 they began a marriage conference entitled, “For Better For Worse For Keeps.” The next year their book by the same title was nominated for the Gold Medallion Award. Soon they were producing a one minute daily syndicated radio spot called “The Marriage Minute,” growing to air on 300 stations.

In addition to publishing half a dozen books on marriage in 2005 began a nation-wide live call-in television program called, “Marriage – For Better For Worse” on the Total Living Network. Reaching primarily under-served communities in 2013 it was recognized by the National Religious Broadcasters as the “Best Television Teaching Program of the Year.”

Two decades later Bob and Cheryl still continue to minister primarily to urban, ethnic and first generation immigrant congregations throughout the United States. Their conferences utilize biblically based principles that come alive with personal humorous storytelling compelling life stories. They see Saving Urban Marriage as a platform for evangelism, discipleship and cultural transformation. Ultimately the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only solution to the issues that confront couples in their marriage and community. The Moeller family now includes six children ages 16 to 33, one son-in-law, three daughter-in-laws, two grandsons and a granddaughter.