If your relationships ain’t right, you ain’t right. Have Yourself a Marriage Little Christmas The real lasting success of New Song Church...will be determined with how we build the core and foundation of the church...MARRIAGE AND FAMILY. Matthew 1:18 (NLT) This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged (or espoused in the King James) to be married to Joseph... 3 stages of Engagement: 1. Engagement 2. Espousal 3. Betrothal 18... But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit.