Who We Are
Joe and Ramona Bailey are the founders of Abide In The Word. For over 12 years they have served as a team to educate, counsel, and mentor thousands of couples to ABIDE IN THE principles of God’s WORD to experience a marriage that glorifies God. As committed Christians, they are submitted to God to use for restoring marriages to His original design. They are devoted to teach husbands and wives to exchange old, ineffective, ungodly characteristics for new, effective, godly characteristics that yield abundant blessings, to experience true victory in Christ, and to enjoy all God intended in marriage. Joe and Ramona through their own personal commitment to each other and to Jesus Christ, they know, understand, and encourage couples to experience a Godly marriage through abiding in the Word.

Additionally, God has used them, individually and collectively, in various ministries including marital enrichment, premarital counseling, singles, children and youth, and Jr. mission young women ministries.

They have been married for over 16 years to each other and no other. Joe and Ramona have two sons and live in Dallas, Texas.

What We Believe
There exists only one God, Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally co-existing in three divine Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• The deity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of Father God, and in His personal return in power and glory.
  
• The Holy Bible—the entire Old and New Testaments—is God’s complete, true, infallible Word. It is our sole authority and guide in all matters of life and godliness.
  
• Marriage is a covenant relationship between God, male and female, who are created in God’s image.
  
• Marriages are restored to God’s original design only when individuals live an exchanged life of total commitment to abide in the Word.
  
• God commands us to attend and support a local body of believers for teaching, worship, prayer, and fellowship.