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The Most Important Relationship

It Was Never Meant to Start With Your Spouse.

The most important relationship any of us will ever have isn't with a husband or a wife. It's with Jesus.

So our aim at Re-Institute isn't just counseling. It's reconnecting people back to Jesus, first. And when that happens, something remarkable follows: it reconnects a marriage too.

Marriage is the lens. Jesus is the point. We use marriage, whatever season it's in, as the place where that first reconnection gets worked out in real life.

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For Married Couples

Walking With You, Wherever Your Marriage Is.

Maybe your marriage is steady but drifting. Maybe it feels like an emergency. Either way, the starting point is the same. We help you reconnect with Jesus, individually and together, and let that reconnection do its work in your marriage.

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For Life After Marriage

Whether Through Loss or a Hard Ending.

Some of the people we walk with have lost a spouse to death. Others have come through a marriage that ended in a difficult, messy divorce. Either way, you're single again, in a season you didn't necessarily choose.

We help you reconnect first with God, then with yourself, so that whatever comes next in your story is built on solid ground rather than what was lost.

Reach out to someone from our team. We'll get back to you about what it looks like to work with us at Re-Institute.

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For Engaged Couples

Are You Engaged? Thinking About Marriage?

Before the wedding day, the foundation you build together matters. Our team walks engaged couples through premarital coaching built to help you enter marriage with your eyes open, not just your hearts full.

Our team is SYMBIS certified, using an assessment built specifically for couples preparing for marriage. What is SYMBIS?

Reach out to someone from our team. We'll get back to you about what it looks like to work with us at Re-Institute.

Chad and Wendy Norris, founders of Re-Institute

Our Story

We've Walked This Road Too.

Chad and Wendy Norris have been married for nearly thirty years. Their marriage hasn't been perfect. They've faced their own struggles, wounds, and seasons of real disconnection.

But they stayed in the fight. They learned. They healed. They kept following Jesus, together, imperfectly, one season at a time.

"Our mess became our message."

Their credibility doesn't come just from a degree on the wall. It comes from the road they've actually walked, and the scars that came with it. That road created a calling: to walk alongside other couples finding their way back to each other.

Chad & Wendy NorrisFounders, Re-Institute

Focused Coaching Sessions

We meet with you and your spouse in structured sessions, fully present together, working through what's really going on.

Jesus at the Center

Every session points back to the same foundation. Reconnecting you to Him is how we help reconnect you to each other.

By Referral

We keep a limited number of couples at a time, and we work primarily by word of mouth, so we can give every marriage our full attention.

Reach out to someone from our team. We'll get back to you about what it looks like to work with us at Re-Institute.

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"All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation."
2 Corinthians 5:18

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You Don't Have to Figure This Out Alone.

Whether you're preparing for marriage, walking through a hard season in your marriage, or navigating life after one, we'd be honored to hear your story.

You don't need to have everything figured out. You just need to take the next step.

Reach out to someone from our team. We'll get back to you about what it looks like to work with us at Re-Institute.

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