Al and Autumn started marriage mentoring and coaching couples as a ministry within Laurelwood in 2001. This involved developing training materials and a program for offering couple coaching services, which started in the fall. Al and Autumn were the lead couple for a couple mentoring ministry modeled after Mike McManus’ Marriage Savers program. Al is a trainer and Autumn is a volunteer manager and together they developed training materials and trained the couple coaches at Laurelwood. They and other couples provide the coaching to couples seeking to work on their pre-marital or marriage relationship. Through March 2006, over 50 couples have been coached at Laurelwood.