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Title: Marriage Enrichment Retreats Story of a Quaker Project
Author: David Mace Vera Mace
Release Date: September 3, 2009 [EBook #29899]
Language: English
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Marriage Enrichment Retreats
Story of a Quaker Project
By
David and Vera Mace
Friends General Conference 1520 Race Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19102
About the Maces
David and Vera Mace have spent almost forty years making a vital relationship of their own marriage, and,
because of their inherent sense of purpose, consequently have enriched the lives and marriages of innumerable
persons in some sixty countries around the world.
David Mace's first degree was in science from the University of London. Earlier family influence led him on
to Cambridge University, a degree in theology, and work in a mission church in the slums of London. Vera,
already in youth work, joined him after their marriage in the work of the mission church. From that point on
theirs was a partnership which focused on counselling persons in trouble. Later, a PhD. in sociology for David
and a Masters degree with a thesis on Christian marriage for Vera, moved them into full time marriage
guidance work. (Two children, a war causing forced separation for a time, and a pacifist stand by David which
also made life more difficult, only strengthened them in their life's purpose.) Before leaving Britain
permanently in 1949, they had set up more than one hundred ma