Voice of Covenant

The third episode of The Diaspora Marriage, a Voice of Covenant series on building a Christ-centered home when you are walking between two cultures.   In this episode, Micheline Nelson teaches on the marriage that holds two different faith stories: the home where one of you was raised Catholic and the other Pentecostal, where one ofyou came to Christ years into the marriage, or where one of you is...

The second episode of The Diaspora Marriage, a Voice of Covenant series on building a Christ-centered home when you are walking between two cultures. In this episode, Micheline Nelson teaches on the first five years of marriage, the foundation you will live in for decades. Year one is not the hardest year. Year three usually is. Drawing on her own diaspora story and years of covenant marriage, she...

The first episode of The Diaspora Marriage, a new Voice of Covenant series on building a Christ-centered home when you are walking between two cultures. In this opener, Micheline Nelson teaches on the engagement year, the short and sacred window most couples spend on the wedding instead of the marriage. Drawing on her own diaspora story and decades of covenant marriage, she walks through three con...

If you are a Haitian or Francophone Christian woman, single, somewhere between your twenties and your forties, thisepisode is for you. Sit with it. Micheline Nelson, founder of ECO Relationships, names what church culture often leaves unspoken: waiting in your twenties is loneliness, waiting in your thirties is grief, and waiting at forty is something even our aunties whisper about behind their ha...

Faith without works is dead. Love in Action is where prayer becomes presence. Micheline shares how outreach turns covenant into action through meals, gowns, prayer, and presence. The trajectory of this work changed when James 2:17 became more than a verse on the page. Love has to put on work clothes. Love has to show up: with meals, with gowns, with prayers at a hospital bedside, with school suppl...

Hard seasons don't mean your marriage is broken. They're part of the covenant. Micheline shares honest truths about communication, forgiveness, and weathering the storms together. The wedding day talks about love being patient. The Tuesday morning before coffee tells a different story. In this honest conversation for married couples, Micheline names what we rarely say out loud about the mi...

In this first episode, founder Micheline Nelson shares the story behind ECO Relationships and what this podcast is here to do. You'll hear: - How a quiet whisper turned into a calling, and why Micheline finally said yes on a leap day, February 29, 2024 - What "covenant" really means, and why it's the foundation for everything ECO teaches - A look at the three relationship ministr...

Your singleness is not a punishment. It is not a mistake. It is not God forgetting about you. In this episode, Micheline Nelson reframes the single season as one of the most transformative seasons of your life, if you lean into it instead of running from it. You'll hear: - Why comparison is the thief of purpose, and what God is actually doing while you wait - Three things God grows in this sea...

We spend months, sometimes years, planning the wedding day. But that day is not the marriage. In this episode for engaged couples and anyone thinking about engagement, Micheline Nelson walks through what real covenant preparation looks like, beyond the venue and the dress. You'll hear: - The honest conversations every couple needs to have BEFORE the wedding (conflict, money, faith, expectation...