(Kenyatta University, 2018-04) Muriithi, Elizabeth Nancy; Gitome Josephine; Gathogo Julius
The aim of this article is to outline the Pastoral marital programmes among Redeemed Gospel Church (RGC)
Embu County, Kenya, which the church utilizes to help her members to address marital challenges. In our
contemporary society, many marriages; Christian and non-Christian alike, face marital challenges which often
call for a pastoral intervention from the pastoral leadership, especially among Christians. The article used the
structural functional theory in its theoretical framework. Qualitative approach was the determinant design that
was applied. The article reveals that there are marital challenges among RGC Christian families in Embu County
despite RGC having established pastoral marital programmes that are ironically meant to address the challenges
therein. The article concludes that there is an urgent need to revisit and adequately reconstruct the methodology
in teaching pastoral marital programmes with the sole aim of finding better ways of addressing the test.