Healthy marriages depend on various indicators such as good communication, common spirituality, well define roles and emotional connection or intimacy. Those indicators among others received both internal and external stressors that imbalance the homeostasis in marriage. Since Covid 19 got to Puerto Rico that have been a increase in domestic violence. Are we as pastors well prepared to address the roots of what really causes marital violence?

Is the church aware of the relevance of the impact of a healthy spirituality in marriages? Pastors in most cases don't have time to do research and analysis of how marriages are holding during such crisis as a pandemic. Such information is crucial if we want to be models of a healthy family in our community. The study will be working with 50 Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) marriages from 8 to 10 local communities. This couples will be urban and rural sectors in our Island. An ethnographic methodology would be the most appropriate tool for this pastoral project.

By approving this grant we can find the real problems that Christian marriages have in this time. But more important we can address in more specific way how to implement programs based in evidence that truly help marriages to cope on any crisis.