IF YOU GO• What: “Love Worth Fighting For” marriage event• When: 7 p.m. Friday• Where: Red Bank Baptist Church, 4000 Dayton Blvd.• Admission: $12.50 (overflow seating only)• Phone: 877-4514• Website: www.loveworthfightingfor.org
Kirk Cameron is headlining a conference on marriage at at Red Bank Baptist Church on Friday.Marriage is on the march and “worth fighting for,” actor Kirk Cameron says.
The 1980s “Growing Pains” television star and “Fireproof” movie actor, who will lead a marriage conference at Red Bank Baptist Church on Friday, says people across the country are increasingly staying in the binding relationship they made with their spouses.
Without it, Cameron says, people “miss out on the blessing of God, the blessing of a godly marriage and the foundation of the family.”
Statistics – at least the decline of divorces – bear out his claim. Divorces nationally, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, fell from 4 per 1,000 people in 2000 to 3.6 per 1,000 people in 2011. In Tennessee, the rate fell from 6.5 per 1,000 people in 1990 to 4.3 per 1,000 people in 2011, the center reports.