“I write to recommend Bob and Barbara Zielinski as marriage enrichment facilitators. I'm a West Point graduate (class of 1958), a Vietnam veteran, served 14 years of active duty and 17 years in the Army Reserve. Mv wife and I have been married for 53 years and have benefitted hugely from our marriage enrichment experiences. We know the stresses of military life and know that Bob and Barbara will help our soldiers deal with those stresses in a constructive way so that their marriages will have the means to flourish.

My wife, Sue, and I worked with Bob and Barbara when we led New Jersey National Marriage Encounter in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They were not only our most effective team (a marriage encounter "team" is a husband and wife), but also coordinated all the New Jersey teams. We presented between 15 and 20 retreats a year in New Jersey in those days.

As a team, they worked on retreats making presentations and coordinating with other team members. Their sharing was an inspiring example to other team members (we usually fielded two or three couples to lead each retreat). As team coordinators they planned and implemented training sessions for our other teams, and also assisted in coordinating regional conferences [New York, New Jersey, New England), and one national conference for us. They went on to write the team training guide for National Marriage Encounter used throughout the United States and assisted in training teams around the country. In addition, in 1980 they supported USAEUR chaplains doing marriage enrichment retreats for service couples on bases in Germany.

They are both committed to marriage enrichment and bring a wealth of experience and understanding to his endeavor. I highly recommend them to you.