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Worldwide Marriage Encounter's Longest Married Couple Project Has a New Nomination Timeline Due to the Coronavirus

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - April 1, 2020 - (Newswire.com)

​The nomination period for the 2020 Longest Married Couple Project, sponsored by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, is being extended till the end of July due to the coronavirus pandemic across the United States, it was announced today by the co-coordinators of the project, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

“After much discussion and consideration, we decided that for the safety and medical awareness for all involved, we would extend the nomination period,” said Dick & Diane Baumbach and Bryan & Karen Berland, the national WWME Longest Married Couple Project co-coordinators.

 Nominations have been received from all over the country, and normally, the national and state winners are recognized and personally honored in June, but because of the high impact medically on all age groups due to the coronavirus, it was decided that the recognition period will be the end of August or beginning of September, the co-coordinators said.

“We are hopeful that with the new time frame the effects of the coronavirus will be behind us and that there will be no medical danger to the national and state winners when they are personally honored. We realized, as we made this decision, that many of the honorees are married 70 to 80 years and, thus, their ages are in the 90s and 100s,” the co-coordinators said.

The WWME national leadership team, Tony & Sue Morris and Fr. Tom Ogg, will conduct the national recognition of the Longest Married Couple during the new time period.

The project honors one national winner and winners from each of the 50 states and U.S. territories.

As in the previous nine years of the project, nominations are following the same pattern, with families and friends from all over the country submitting names of couples that have long marriages.

The project was created 10 years ago to yearly honor the commitment of married couples and to give hope to younger couples - that they can have long and lasting marriages,” the co-coordinators said. “You can go to wwme.org to find out more information and to nominate couples.”

Nominations, which are open to all husband and wife couples regardless of faith expression, may also be submitted by email, regular mail or by calling a special phone number.

The information for sending in a nomination requires the name of the couple, their wedding date and what city and state they reside in, while the nominator needs to include their name plus a phone number or email address so they can be contacted if their nominee is a national or state winner. Upon determination of the winners, initial contact is made by WWME with nominators, not directly with the winning couple.

The nomination information may be submitted by one of the following ways: at www.wwme.orgor email bkberland@gmail.com, regular mail - Bryan and Karen Berland 530 S. Academy, Guthrie, OK, 73044, special phone number 405-850-4274. Nominations must be received by midnight on July 31, 2020.

 

Worldwide Marriage Encounter offers married couples the opportunity to spend time together away from the busyness of the world to focus on each other. It offers tools for building and maintaining a strong, Christian marriage in today’s world. To learn more about the Worldwide Marriage Encounter weekends online, go to wwme.org, or contact the WWME Office at (909) 332-7309.

Media contacts Dick and Diane Baumbach

WWME North American Media and Public Relations Coordinators

321-544-3440 (Direct)

dick.diane.baumbach@wwme.org or dickanddiane66@bellsouth.net




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