Dr. Tonny Gobanga
With more than two decades of combined ministry and professional counseling experience, Dr. Tonny Gobanga has become known for an approach to love, dating, relationships, and marriage that refuses to stay shallow. Through years of walking beside countless couples, families, and individuals hearing their stories, diagnosing root relational issues, and offering deeply resonant insights he helps foster lasting transformation rather than quick fixes.
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As founder of The Marriage Village, Dr. Gobanga’s mission centers on bringing healing, clarity, and restoration to homes. He does this through a powerful blend of writing, media presence, and direct coaching. His commitment: to restore marriages, rekindle love, guide healing from betrayal or separation, and support generational flourishing by addressing emotional, spiritual, and relational dynamics that many professionals tend to overlook.
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Through his writing, Dr. Gobanga has created a large body of work that addresses critical themes: premarital readiness, marital health, intimacy, infidelity recovery, separation/divorce decisions, and relational restoration. This makes him not only a therapist but a thought‑leader shaping modern Christian‑informed conversations about love, sex, and marriage. Some of his books are Sex & Romantidemics, Infidelicious, Beyond I Do, 21 Pillows of Sex, Don't Marry your Best friend among others that can be found on Amazon
Dr. Terry Gobanga
Dr. Terry Gobanga is a trauma coach, advocate, and visionary with a relentless passion for the hurting and a life-story of redemption. As founder and president of Kara International (present in Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Benin and soon beyond), she leads an organization committed to rescuing, restoring and empowering teen girls who have been defiled and marginalized.
Her own journey stands as a powerful testament: from personal trauma to purposeful calling, she chose healing over hiding—refusing to let her past define her future.
With authenticity born of experience, she coaches women, ministers to families and stands beside couples within the work of The Marriage Village, bringing compassion, insight, and spiritual depth to each engagement.
A dynamic speaker, worshipper and storyteller, Dr. Gobanga has graced diverse platforms with her testimony—illuminating how pain can become power when surrendered and redirected. According to her official biography: “As Founder and President of Kara International, she has established a nonprofit that is making a real impact in the world.” Terry Gobanga
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Together with her husband, Dr. Tonny Gobanga, she ministers as part of a powerful partnership—bringing restored intimacy, healed homes and generational impact from their base in Dallas, Texas and across continents.
Phillip and Christine Kiiru
Directors Kenya Chapter
Our journey of courtship and into marriage was a sweet honeymoon that was quickly mingled with friction as we struggled to gel our personalities and expectations of each other. Our first year of marriage was characterized with frequent misunderstandings of each other’s intentions and decisions especially where the family finances were concerned. We had constant communication breakdown.
By the end of year one, we agreed that we could not continue with the way things were. We realized the Lord was seeking our attention by allowing us go through all these so we turned to the Lord, the author of marriage. He began softening our hearts towards one another, for a heart of stone, He gave us a heart of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26-27). He began to reveal the purpose for which He brought us together. We discovered a greater purpose that was beyond the two of us coming together as husband and wife.
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In the year 2015, the Lord called us into the Marriage Ministry to be a source of hope, encouragement and loving rebuke to the Singles, Courting couples and Married couples. We have seen the Lord bring countless individuals and couples our way to walk with into this journey of marriage and purpose. This journey has not been easy. We have battled with several miscarriages but the Lord has been merciful and good to us and granted us two beautiful children.