Introduction to the The Great Expectations: Creating Marriages Built to Last                             Marriage  Preparation & Enrichment Program

Have you ever wondered whether your marriage could have a purpose and an impact beyond yourself and your immediate family? This question became embedded in the minds of the authors after listening to a talk by Gary Thomas (author of Sacred Marriage & A Lifelong Love), where he asked listeners to ponder the question of whether God created marriage for holiness rather than for happiness. Great Expectations: Creating marriages built to last was inspired by this question. 

The Great Expectations: Creating Marriages Built to Last Marriage Preparation & Enrichment program is our signature marriage preparation and enrichment program. It a pre-marital counseling and marriage enrichment program which combines practical, problem solving strategies and proven counseling techniques with the infallible Word of God. The program is made up of 5 interactive sessions and includes a Couples Workbook and an optional Mentors Guide. 

Meet the Program Developers

David and Pushpa Dasari hail from South Africa and have been married for 30 years. Their only daughter Natasha, lives in the USA with her husband Scott and son Caleb.

David is a school administrator and Pushpa is a certified counselor. They are currently based in Shanghai, China.

The Dasari’s have lived in several countries including Qatar, China, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. They are passionate about helping marriages and families grow and flourish as they believe that good marriages are the essential building blocks of happy families and  effective societies. 

The Great Expectations Marriage Preparation and  Enrichment program was first published in 2019 as a response to a thought-provoking question posed by Gary Thomas, author of Sacred Marriage and A Lifelong Love, which asks us as Christians, to consider whether God created marriage for holiness rather than for happiness. The Dasari's believe that if God created marriage to make us holy, then it stands to reason that He would have provided u s with a blueprint through scripture. The Great Expectations  program was created to take couples on an exploratory journey of their expectations and dreams, aligning their expectations to godly expectations, culminating in the creation of a marriage mission statement, while using The Bible as the blueprint and true north throughout the 5 session journey. 

It is their hope that your journey through this program will be an enriching experience as you engage with tools that enable you to enrich your marriage, deepen your intimacy and live out a Godly perspective to marriage.

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