Love • Commitment • Growth • Community

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Stronger communities.

A Christ-centered community helping couples build lasting connection, communicate with grace, and love with purpose.

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Founded byWalter & Tondalah Stroud

Walter and Tondalah Stroud wearing Christ Centered shirts

Christ at the center.Community all around.

Our story

We dare couples to love on purpose.

Dare to Love is a Christ-centered marriage enrichment community founded by Walter and Tondalah Stroud for couples who desire stronger marriages, deeper connection, and shared purpose.

What began with a shared calling to encourage couples grew through candid conversations, interactive “Hot Topics” gatherings, date nights, prayer, and practical tools for real relationships. Today, that same heart guides every coaching session, ceremony, gathering, and act of service.

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Our Christian foundation

Christ is at the center of every covenant.

We believe marriage is a sacred covenant established by God. When husband and wife are joined with Christ at the center, their union is strengthened by truth, grace, prayer, and a shared commitment to live according to His Word.

“And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
Ecclesiastes 4:12, KJV

Meet the founders

Together in marriage. Together in ministry.

As licensed and ordained ministers, Walter and Tondalah share a calling to strengthen marriages, encourage families, and serve people with biblical truth, compassion, and practical wisdom.

Co-founder • Licensed and ordained minister • Ministry leader • Marriage coach

Walter Stroud

Walter brings biblical wisdom and a steady, kingdom-centered perspective to every conversation. As a ministry leader, marriage coach, and wedding officiant, he helps couples look beyond the moment, return to God’s Word, and approach marriage with shared vision, healthy communication, and practical commitment. His warmth and thoughtful leadership help couples feel supported, understood, and spiritually grounded as they prepare for marriage and grow in covenant.

Co-founder • Licensed and ordained minister • Marriage enrichment leader

Tondalah Stroud

Tondalah brings compassion, discernment, and a heart for helping people grow in faith, purpose, and connection. As a marriage coach, speaker, and ministry leader, she encourages couples through honest conversation and biblical wisdom. She has also officiated more than 30 funeral and memorial services, creating personal and dignified tributes that honor each life and comfort families through loss.

Together, Walter and Tondalah serve couples and families through life’s joyful, sacred, and tender moments.

How we serve

Christ-centered marriage coaching and services for every season.

01 / Premarital Coaching

Prepare for more than a wedding day.

An eight-session, Christ-centered journey designed to help engaged couples enter marriage with greater clarity, confidence, and practical tools for building a life together.

Select coaching sessions are available by Zoom. Inquire about availability.

Schedule a Coaching Inquiry

The Dare to Love Premarital Journey

From two individuals to one covenant.

Before a couple can build a healthy “we,” each person must understand the “me” they are bringing into the marriage. This journey guides couples from self-awareness to shared covenant through honest conversation, biblical wisdom, and practical preparation.

Knowing the Me

Before we become one, we need to understand who we are bringing into the marriage.

Explore individual values, experiences, expectations, faith, strengths, differences, and personal visions for marriage. A healthy “we” begins with understanding the two people creating it.

From Me to We

Two lives learning to become one.

Explore leaving and cleaving, shared priorities, decision-making, sacrifice, consideration, and what it means to begin thinking as husband and wife, not simply as two individuals.

Talking Through the We

Staying connected when communication gets hard.

Practice listening, speaking with care, recognizing conflict patterns, understanding how you each give and receive love, staying present, and approaching disagreements as both of you against the problem, not against each other.

Working the We

Turning love into an everyday partnership.

Talk honestly about responsibilities, finances, household duties, careers, schedules, decision-making, children, and the often-unseen work required to build a life together.

Protecting the We

Guarding what you are building together.

Identify the boundaries that protect your marriage from family pressures, friendships, work, technology, distractions, unresolved conflict, and anything that can gradually create distance between husband and wife.

Living the Covenant as We

The wedding is one day. The marriage is a lifetime.

Bring everything together as you prepare to make a covenant before God. Explore faith, commitment, forgiveness, perseverance, and the practices that will help you continue choosing “us” over “me” throughout your marriage.

Nurturing the We

Building emotional, spiritual, and physical intimacy.

Discuss affection, friendship, trust, emotional safety, sexual expectations, physical boundaries before marriage, prayer, and how intimacy may change through different seasons. Learn practices that keep closeness intentional, mutual, and protected.

Planning the We

Creating a shared plan for the life you hope to build.

Align goals for children and parenting, money, saving and investing, careers, housing, health, insurance, estate planning, rest, travel, and how you will prepare together for life’s unexpected seasons.

02 / Wedding Officiant

A ceremony that sounds like you.

A warm, personalized ceremony centered on your story, your commitment, and the sacred promise you are making before those you love.

Complete our inquiry form to request pricing and availability.

Inquire about officiating

03 / Funeral or Memorial Service

Honoring a life with dignity and care.

A compassionate, personalized funeral or memorial service that reflects the life, faith, and legacy of your loved one, supported by experience officiating more than 30 services.

Complete our inquiry form to request pricing and availability.

Request information

Marriage enrichment

Make room to talk, reconnect, and enjoy marriage.

Dare to Love creates welcoming experiences where couples can strengthen their relationship through honest conversation, shared experiences, food, fun, and fellowship.

Saturday, November 14, 2026 • 5:30 PM

Couples Conversations

This month’s topic: TRUST
Can I trust you with me?

A monthly gathering where couples talk openly about real relationship topics for the purpose of enrichment while enjoying food, fun, and fellowship.

The Sutherland Clubhouse
1658 South Forum Drive
Grand Prairie, TX

Come ready for real conversation, practical encouragement, food, fun, and fellowship. Seating is limited, so please reserve your spot.

Reserve Your Spot

Intentional time together

Couple Date Nights

Thoughtfully planned date nights give couples space to step away from their routines, have fun, reconnect, and create new memories with a community that values marriage.

Upcoming dates and details will be announced through Dare to Love.

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Registration now open

Reserve one space for your couple.

Each Couples Conversations session has limited seating. Choose a date and complete one registration for you and your spouse. If a session reaches capacity, additional registrations for that date will be placed on its waitlist.

Limited seating

Reserve your couple’s place early. We’ll confirm whether your couple is registered or waitlisted after you submit.

Saturday, November 14, 2026 • 5:30 PMThe Sutherland Clubhouse1658 South Forum Drive, Grand Prairie, TX

Featured event

July 2028 • Saint Lucia

Couples Vacation

Step away from the everyday and reconnect in one of the Caribbean’s most breathtaking settings. Our July 2028 couples vacation is being designed around rest, romance, community, and purposeful time together.

Time away gives couples room to breathe, laugh, explore, rest, and remember the joy of simply being together.

“Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while.”
Mark 6:31, KJV

Details TBA

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Dare to Love memories

Connection, adventure, and joy together.

Moments from previous Dare to Love couples vacations and group experiences.

Dare to Love group horseback riding on a past couples vacation — Exploring together

Sailboat excursion during a past Dare to Love vacation — Time to unwind

Walter Stroud riding a jet ski on vacation — Adventure on the water

Couples enjoying an ATV excursion on vacation — Memories that last

Pray together. Serve together.

Couples who pray and serve the community grow stronger together.

Service gives couples a shared purpose beyond themselves. Through Angel Tree outreach, food pantry support, holiday giving, and other hands-on opportunities, Dare to Love brings couples together to pray, meet practical needs, and show the love of Christ in the community.

We welcome opportunities to serve alongside churches and community organizations while helping couples build compassion, gratitude, unity, and lasting connections with one another.

Join a Service Opportunity

Conference and retreat speakers

Bring an honest, faith-filled conversation to your audience.

Walter and Tondalah bring warmth, biblical truth, candid conversation, and practical relationship wisdom to every audience. Their approachable style invites reflection, participation, and real-life application.

Do you need speakers for a conference, retreat, event, panel, or podcast? Invite the founders of Dare to Love to share a Christ-centered message on marriage, communication, covenant, faith, purpose, or serving together.

Request Walter & Tondalah

Membership starting 2027

Keep choosing your marriage together.

Dare to Love membership gives married couples a consistent rhythm of honest conversation, practical tools, meaningful experiences, and Christ-centered community throughout the year.

$150per couple, billed quarterly

$600per couple, paid annuallyIncludes one complimentary private Couple Growth Session during the membership year, if needed.

Enrollment and payment will open in 2027. Join the interest list now to receive the launch details first.

Join the 2027 Interest List

Gather and grow

Three Couples Conversations gatherings per paid quarter, plus members-first registration for sessions with limited seating.

Annual-payment private session

Couples who pay the full annual membership receive one complimentary private, 60-minute Couple Growth Session during that membership year, if needed, by appointment and subject to availability.

Marriage growth tools for both spouses

Two separate spouse logins with access to the Marriage Bank and The Shared Load Map, plus future couple tools, conversation guides, worksheets, and relationship resources.

Marriage Bank: Assess important relationship accounts, identify areas needing deposits, and follow progress over time.
The Shared Load Map: Begin with private household-responsibility lists and a side-by-side reveal, then create an agreed shared-load plan and revisit it monthly to keep responsibilities clear, fair, and sustainable.

Dare to Love may use Phase One, including the private-list challenge, facilitator-led reveal, and guided discussion, during a live session. Phase Two, the interactive Shared Load Map, saved agreements, and monthly rebalancing experience, is reserved for active members.

Member experiences

A monthly relationship challenge, quarterly member-only virtual workshop or Q&A, and early access to date nights, workshops, retreats, service opportunities, and couples vacations.

Welcome kit and savings

Every active member couple receives a one-time Dare to Love welcome kit with one exclusive DTL shirt for each spouse, plus 10% off eligible merchandise and one guest-couple invitation each year, subject to capacity.

The complimentary annual Couple Growth Session is for both spouses together, is nontransferable, expires at the end of that paid annual membership year, and is not therapy or crisis care. Every couple receives one welcome kit after membership activation and the first payment clears. Designated pickup is included; shipping may cost extra, and shirt sizes and exchanges are subject to availability.

Payment, cancellation & renewal policy

One-year membership: Membership is a 12-month commitment for one married couple. The annual option is paid in one payment. The quarterly option is the same one-year membership paid in four scheduled installments; it is not a cancel-anytime, quarter-to-quarter plan.

Three-business-day cancellation period: A couple may cancel within three business days after enrolling for a full refund and no remaining payment obligation. Welcome kits will be processed after this period ends.

After the cancellation period: A cancellation request stops renewal at the end of the current 12-month term but does not erase installments already scheduled for that term. Payments already made are nonrefundable except when required by law or when Dare to Love cancels the membership without providing a comparable alternative. Documented hardship requests may be considered individually.

Renewal authorization: Membership will not renew or charge automatically unless the checkout page clearly discloses the renewal terms and the member affirmatively authorizes recurring billing. Any price change will be disclosed before a renewal charge.

How to cancel: Members may submit a cancellation or nonrenewal request through the member account when available or by emailing connect@wedaretolove.org. Dare to Love will provide written confirmation. Nothing in this policy limits rights available under applicable law.

Enrollment and payment are not open yet. The complete membership agreement will be displayed before payment information is collected and must be accepted before enrollment.

Tell us how we can serve you.

Share a few details and we’ll follow up about premarital coaching, a ceremony, a funeral or memorial service, community outreach, speaking, or an upcoming event.

Membership begins in 2027

Be first to know when enrollment opens.

Select “Become a Member” on the form to join the interest list. No payment is collected at this time.

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Questions & answers

How can we help?

How do we attend Couples Conversations?

Use the Couples Conversations registration form above. One submission registers both spouses. Seating is limited; if registration reaches capacity, additional couples are placed on the waitlist.

When does membership begin?

Dare to Love membership begins in 2027 at $150 per couple, billed quarterly. Enrollment and payment are not open yet; select Become a Member on the inquiry form to join the interest list.

Can we cancel a membership?

Yes. Membership is a one-year commitment, whether paid annually or in four quarterly installments. Couples may cancel within three business days after enrollment for a full refund. After that period, a cancellation request stops renewal at the end of the current term, but scheduled installments for that term remain due. Full details appear in the membership section and will be presented again before payment.

Which marriage growth tools are included with membership?

Members receive two spouse logins for the Marriage Bank and The Shared Load Map. Dare to Love may use Phase One, including the private-list challenge, facilitator-led reveal, and discussion, during a live session. Phase Two gives active members the interactive Shared Load Map, saved agreements, and monthly rebalancing tools.

How do we ask about coaching, officiating, or speaking?

Use the main inquiry form and select the service you need. Include any preferred date and location so we can respond with the most helpful information.

When will someone respond?

Someone from Dare to Love will be in touch within three business days.

Strong marriages.
Stronger communities.

We dare couples to love on purpose.

Christ is at the center of every covenant.