Now open for sign-up · Men 18+
The Living Room opens Monday, October 26.
A weekly one-hour Zoom gathering, midweek teaching and a brotherhood of men moving in the same direction. Mondays, 7:00–8:00 AM Central, led by Theo Koulianos.
Women 18+ & Gen Z · launch dates coming soon
A Place For Family
Helping families thrive from the inside out.
We tend to the heart of Jesus and the heart of the home. Whether we come to your church or business, or you join us at an intensive or online, we would love to walk alongside your family.
Churches, businesses, couples, singles, and whole families. Invite us to come →
Join the family
Help other families thrive.
Monthly partners make every gathering, intensive, and scholarship possible. Would you prayerfully consider joining them?
25 years
of ministry to marriages, families, and the people who lead them
We come to you
churches, conferences, staff teams, and businesses
You come to us
The Living Room, Tend Gatherings, weekend intensives, and Tend Online
Our mission
Resource every living room on earth.
We’re on a global mission to put what every family needs right where they live: the material to be discipled, to disciple their home and to steward the presence of God around their own table.
Every parent
set up for success.
Every marriage
resourced to thrive.
Every home
hungry for God to invade the living room and the dinner table.
A husband who pastors his family. A mother and father who, together, reveal who God is to their children by the way they speak and the way they live.
From the inside out.
Who we are
A family, serving families.
A Place For Family is led by Theo and Rachel. Over 25 years of ministry, we’ve seen that the most powerful thing God has placed on the earth is the family, and that the health of a church, a business, or a community rises and falls with the health of its homes.
Why we do this
A healthy home produces people who walk in wholeness. A broken one creates the deepest kind of pain. When we trace the hurt in a human heart, it almost always leads back to the place that heart called home. We want to help families tend to the heart of Jesus first, so that everything else (marriage, parenting, work, and ministry) flows from the inside out.
Heart
Healing starts on the inside, with the heart of each person.
Home
Restored hearts rebuild the foundations of a family.
The God of generations
If God is going to move on the earth, He will do it through family.
He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: one generation carrying His presence and passing it to the next. Yet too many families in ministry have been left behind.
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Abraham
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Isaac
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Jacob
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Your family
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Your children
06
Their children
84%
of pastors’ spouses
say they wish their family were never involved in ministry
83%
of pastors’ children
want nothing to do with ministry
One home
at a time
we are igniting a generation that will carry His presence and pass it on
Ways we help families
We’d love to serve you in any way we can.
Whether you want us to come to you or you’d like to come to us, there’s a place for your family here.
Tend Gatherings
A simple evening in the presence of Jesus.
Gathering at His feet and ministering to His heart. Once a month we come together for prayer, intercession, worship, and communion, ministering to the heart of the Lord as we move toward the climax of our gathering: partaking in the Eucharist, the Lord’s body and blood.
We are moving throughout the city, hosting the Lord’s presence and His people for a sacred evening. Barn, chapel, property, home: wherever He leads, we will follow, and we would love for you to join us every time we gather.
- Prayer
- Intercession
- Worship
- Communion: the Lord’s body and blood
One Wednesday each month we will be at His feet. We would be honored if you would meet us there.
See the datesOnce a month
Tend Nights
An evening of prayer, intercession, worship, and communion. We come to sit at the feet of Jesus and minister to His heart, simply loving Him and being with Him.
- Nov18WedWednesday2026
- Dec16WedWednesday2026
- Jan13WedWednesday2027
- Feb17WedWednesday2027
- Mar17WedWednesday2027
- Apr14WedWednesday2027
- May12WedWednesday2027
- Jun16WedWednesday2027
- Jul14WedWednesday2027
Locations in Franklin will be shared before each night.
Send me the locationTend Intensives
A weekend that can change everything.
Intensives are focused, unhurried time to step away from the noise and tend to the heart. Come to one of ours, or let us bring one to you.
For
Couples
A weekend away to heal, rebuild trust, and dream again together, with Jesus at the center of your marriage.
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For
Singles
Space to tend your own heart, find healing from the past, and build a healthy foundation for the home you will one day lead.
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For
Churches
Tailor-fit intensives built around your leadership’s vision: private sessions for staff and high-level leaders, or an intensive for your entire congregation.
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For
Businesses
Private intensives for your staff. Healthy homes make healthy teams, and your people will feel the difference.
Start a conversation
For
Your Home
Open your home to host a private intensive. Gather the couples and families you love in your own living room, and we’ll bring the rest.
Start a conversation
For the local church
We are passionate about the local church.
For more than 25 years, Theo and Rachel have served the local church: preaching the Gospel, discipling believers, and praying for those in need.
Our hearts burn for the local church and for the pastors, families, and congregations who carry it. We love the body of Christ, and we love standing behind the vision God has given your house.
It is an honor to stand alongside your leadership and echo what God has already asked them to speak. Every invitation is tailor-fit to the needs of your church.
Invite us to your churchWe're available for
Sunday services
Preaching and teaching the Word, and the privilege of stewarding your pulpit for the whole house.
Leading worship
Ministering to the Lord alongside your people and creating room for His presence.
Conferences & retreats
Marriage, family, and leadership gatherings, from one evening to a full weekend.
Staff days
Private, focused time to refresh and strengthen your staff and senior leaders.
Family weekends
Church-wide sessions open to every couple and family in your congregation.
Pastors & their families
Quiet support, prayer, and care for the ones who shepherd your house.
Invite us to speak
Theo, Rachel, or both of us
Husband, father, and minister
Theo
Theo preaches the gospel of the Kingdom, calling people into intimacy with God, true friendship with Him, and a return to their first love. With 25 years of preaching and teaching, he opens the Scriptures with context and clarity and can serve any teaching topic found in the Word, always coming alongside the vision of your house.
- The gospel of the Kingdom
- Intimacy and friendship with God
- Returning to your first love
- Sunday morning services
- Men’s conferences
- Any topic found in the Scriptures
Wife, mother, and worship leader
Rachel
Rachel brings a tender, genuine heart to women and families, inviting them to seek Jesus first and tend the garden of their homes. Through worship and honest, heartfelt sharing, she draws people into real communion with Jesus and encourages them to make His presence part of the everyday rhythms of home.
- Women’s conferences and family retreats
- Tending the garden of your home
- Raising arrows and cultivating faith
- Intimate, presence-centered worship
- Living life from the inside out
Together
Theo & Rachel
Together, Theo and Rachel speak to anything you would find inside the home and how to navigate all that life brings to a family.
- Marriage and family
- Parenting and discipling your children
- Walking through disappointment
- Family conferences and marriage weekends
- Living from the inside out
Next weekend intensive
December 11–12, 2026
$500
per couple
25
couples max, limited spots
- Friday and Saturday
- Franklin, Tennessee area
- We suggest booking a hotel or Airbnb in the Franklin area.
- Transportation is not provided, so please plan your own travel to and from each session.
Friday, Dec 11
6:00–9:00 PM
6:00 PM
Meet and greet
6:00–6:30 PM
6:30 PM
Dinner and introduction
7:30 PM
Worship
8:00 PM
Teaching and communion
8:00–9:00 PM
Saturday, Dec 12
10:00 AM–4:30 PM
10:00 AM
Continental breakfast
10:30 AM
Worship
11:00 AM
Session 1
12:30 PM
Lunch and activation
1:30 PM
Session 2
2:30 PM
Break
3:00 PM
Final session with prayer and impartation
4:30 PM
Weekend concludes
See what God has been doing
Recent weekend intensives.
A look inside our recent weekends: worship, healing, and couples finding their way back to each other.
Weekend intensive recap
Columbia, TN · August 15–16
Weekend intensive recap
Dallas, TX · May 16–17, 2025
Weekend intensive recap
Dallas, TX · March 7–8, 2025
Tend Online
Bring the heart of Tend into your home.
Not every family can make it to a gathering or an intensive, so we’re bringing it to you. Tend Online is our online school and resource library, wherever you are.
Online school
Guided courses on marriage, parenting, and living from the inside out.
Resources
Teachings, devotionals, and practical tools to keep tending at home.
At your pace
Learn together on the couch, around the table, or with your small group.
“It’s never too late for God to rewrite your history as a family.”
A Place For Family
Follow along
Life at our table
Theo, Rachel, and our four boys: building a life around Jesus, family, and a little bit of golf.
The dream God placed in our hearts
A Place for Him.
It’s why we came to the Franklin area: to find land for an oasis families can run to, for prevention before the break, restoration after it, and renewal for the ones who are simply tired.
Concept rendering · the property is not yet acquired
Give
Take a seat at the table.
Help us serve families. We want to get our resources into every living room: equipping husbands and wives, resourcing mothers and fathers, and giving our children what they need to thrive.
“Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”2 Corinthians 9:7
Become a monthly partner
Monthly partners let us set a real budget and steward our resources well. Choose the seat that fits you.
Give a one-time gift
One-time gifts help us jump-start what the Lord has asked of us: full-time staff, new media equipment, family scholarships, and sponsored intensives for couples, churches, and businesses.
Let’s build together