2026 Marriage Conference

Due to winter weather, Day 2 of the Marriage Conference is rescheduled for February 21. The Sunday School class is rescheduled for February 22.


If you were already registered for the conference but cannot attend the rescheduled date of February 21 for Session 2 and 3, please click here to fill out a form cancelling your registration. 


If you previously couldn't attend the conference, but would now like to attend Sessions 2 and 3 on February 21, please click here to register.


Saturday, February 21 Schedule


8:30 AM-9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

*Childcare opens at 8:30 AM

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Session 2: Women, Men, and Marriage

10:00 AM-10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM-11:30 AM

Session 3: Family and Marriage


Sunday, February 22 Schedule

9:45 AM-10:30 AM

Adult Sunday School

Conference Details



Childcare

If you are attending with children, we will have on-site childcare provided for all ages. Childcare will open at 8:30 AM on Saturday morning.  


Meals

We will breakfast on Saturday. 


Registration

There is no cost to attend this conference. If you have not yet registered, please click here to do so.




Our Speakers


Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn is Professor of Church History and Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte. A leading expert on the work of the Westminster Assembly, he completed a five-volume work of The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1652 (Oxford University Press). He is currently working on a major monograph on the Westminster Assembly, having recently completed an edition of John Lightfoot’s journals, also published with OUP. He is the editor most recently of John Arrowsmith’s Plans for Holy War,  and serves as general editor of Works of Samuel Rutherford, which is to be published by Reformation Heritage Books in 22 volumes. 


Dr. Van Dixhoorn studied at Huron College, The University of Western Ontario (B.A.) and received his ministerial training at Westminster Theological Seminary (MDiv, ThM). After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, Dr. Van Dixhoorn was awarded two post-doctoral fellowships, the second granted by the British Academy. He was a member of the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge and has held two fellowships at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Since 2014, Dr. Van Dixhoorn has also served as an honorary research fellow at the University of East Anglia in the U.K., and since 2023 as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto.


At RTS Van Dixhoorn teaches three courses on church history, as well as regular courses on ecclesiology and sacraments, church polity, worship, personal sanctification, pastoral theology, expositional preaching, and the Westminster Standards.


Ordained in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Dr. Van Dixhoorn has served as a pastor at Cambridge Presbyterian Church in the U.K. and at Grace Presbyterian Church in Vienna, Va. He and his wife Emily have been blessed with five children and a son-in-law.


Emily Van Dixhoorn (MAR Westminster Theological Seminary) loves Bible study and prayer, especially when shared with others. She regularly speaks at women’s retreats and marriage conferences.  She is the author of Confessing the Faith Study Guide, a companion to her husband Chad Van Dixhoorn’s commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith.  She and her husband co-authored Gospel Shaped Marriage: Grace for Sinners to Love like Saints. They regularly welcome people into their home of happy chaos. Emily and Chad have five children from ages 13-25.  For fun, Emily plays tennis, teaches math, and walks their dog.