INTRODUCING
THE STEINKAMPS

Bob and Charlyne Steinkamp met and married in the sixties in Pompano Beach, Florida where they still live today. They are the parents of three children and the grandparents of seven, all living locally. Previously, Bob was a funeral director and Charlyne had a successful career in medical office administration.

Things were not always blissful for this couple. They separated several times and finally divorced in 1985 after 19 years of marriage. Two years later, in response to the prayers of a wife who had refused to give up on a prodigal husband, Bob and Charlyne were remarried, to the glory of God, who restored their marriage.

In 1989, the Lord led them in two ways that were to become the birth of Rejoice Marriage Ministries. Following a late night conversation Bob overheard in a hospital regarding divorce, he started to write his first book, "Prodigals Do Come Home." About the same time, Charlyne was led to approach their pastor regarding her burden to teach a Bible study for women standing for restoration of their marriage or for an unsaved spouse.

Since that time, Bob and Charlyne have written nineteen books on marriage restoration. Their testimony was dramatized worldwide on UNSHACKLED! from Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago. They have appeared on TBN and have been interviewed on radio and television, and had newspaper and magazine stories of their testimony. The Steinkamps also host both a daily and a weekly radio program of their own.

A weekly Rejoice Bible study group, that began with a handful of women in the Steinkamps' living room in 1989, now meets each Monday evening at a church in Pompano Beach, with both men and women. Tens of thousands of Charlyne’s teaching messages from those classes have been distributed worldwide on cassette and CD.

The second greatest accomplishment of Rejoice Marriage Ministries has been to witness couple after couple whose hopeless marriages have been restored, even after divorce. The greatest accomplishment of the Ministry has been to help untold scores of men and women discover a relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Steinkamps duplicated 60 copies of their first two page newsletter in 1990. Today, thousands of subscribers around the world receive Charlyne Cares, a free daily email devotional written for hurting spouses. Rejoice Marriage Ministries also has several web sites, receiving thousands of visitors each week. Several thousand other people listen to God Heals Hurting Marriages, their daily five minute radio program, also available online.

Their most recent project, following God's word to them to "Proclaim," is to rent highway billboards that read, in three-foot high letters, "There's Hope - God Heals Hurting Marriages."

The Internet visitor can discover scores of sites on marriage restoration. What makes Rejoice Marriage Ministries stand out from all the others? First, it was birthed by a couple, following their divorce and remarriage to each other, and both spouses are active in the Ministry today. Bob and Charlyne strive to be transparent to the Rejoice Marriage Ministries family. Their goal is to always minister with integrity.

Visitors to some marriage restoration sites may find rules devised by that specific ministry they say must be adhered to for a restored marriage. You can find sites with programs of every type imaginable, promising to bring prodigals home. The Steinkamps teach learning to listen to God for His direction. Only He will have all the answers right every time. A person standing with God for marriage restoration needs to be talking to Him in prayer. Your coaching needs to come from God.

Only God can truly convict a prodigal to come home, to change, to stay home and to be a faithful spouse, with every family member serving the Lord. Your day-to-day instruction needs to come from God alone.

Bob and Charlyne's books are written, and messages taped, to give encouragement to hurting spouses, not to be rule books. The only book you really need to see your marriage restored is the Bible.

If you feel the need for books, tapes, and CD's to encourage you while you stand, you can find them in the Rejoice Marriage Ministries Bookstore.

Rejoice Marriage Ministries can never promise you a healed marriage if you follow our directions, but, on the authority of the Bible, we can promise you that if you follow God’s direction, and listen to Him, not only will your marriage be changed, but your personal life as well.

You may have come to the Rejoice Marriage Ministries site searching for an answer to your family’s problem. The "something" you are seeking is really "someone," and His name is Jesus. Please contact us if Rejoice Marriage Ministries can help you discover the difference that the Lord can make in a fractured family. God Heals Hurting Families!

"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one." John 10:27-30