Jim & Grace Vine

The creators of MarriageWorks

Jim grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and Grace in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. They met in Chicago when both were studying at Moody Bible Institute, and married two years later. Jim joined OAC Ministries in 1957, and together they have served in Victoria, NSW, and Queensland, as well as in USA. In 1979 Jim & Grace taught their first Marriage Growth Seminar in Brisbane, and subsequently have taught marriage and family seminars from Perth to Hobart to Cooktown, carrying along scores of relevant book titles, teaching cassettes, and their own musical recordings. Previously, the Vine Family musical band toured the Eastern States in the early 80s, and added flesh and blood credibility to their teaching on family life.

In February 1987 OAC Family Life Programs was formed as a department of the Queensland branch of OAC, and in 1995 Family Life Programs was made a division of OAC Ministries. Realising the Vines would one day be unable to travel the FLP Council decided to adapt their Marriage Growth Seminar into a video series for small group use called MarriageWorks. This was released in September 2001. The adaptation for engaged couples, MarriageWorks PREP was released in July 2005. At the end of 2005 the Vines retired from OAC Family Life Programs and continuing the supply of MarriageWorks materials through their family business, Darview P/L.

Marriage resources available from Darview:

MarriageWorks - an Australian marriage growth video series on DVD. Designed for small group use to promote healthy marriages in your church.
MarriageWorks PREP - a six step interactive marriage preparation course on DVD.
Dr Ed Wheat Audio CDs - in cooperation with Australian Christian Family we are the distributors for Dr Ed Wheat audio CDs within Australia and New Zealand.

For pricing and other information about all our resources, visit our secure order form.

FLP is committed to strengthening family relationships in Australia, by any means that promote biblical values and Christ-like, personal virtues.

OAC Ministries

OAC Ministries began in 1892 as the Coogee Open Air Mission. In 1922, because open air work had become its major evangelistic ministry the name was changed to Open Air Campaigners.