TIL 208: How to Build a Church Counseling Ministry (feat. Tony Anderson)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Pastor Tony Anderson sat down with Taron Defevers, staff member at ACBC, to give guidance on how to start a counseling ministry in your local church from his experience as an ACBC certified training center. FEATURING: First Steps - Begin Praying for like-minded leadership and ministry partners. - Equip the staff, then cast a vision for the whole church - Ask mature members to pursue counseling ministry - Make a commitment to train counselors for excellence - Ensuring competency in handling God's Word Resources: What If's https://bradbigney.wordpress.com/growing-counseling-in-the-local-church/ ACBC Training Centers https://biblicalcounseling.com/training-2/certified-training-centers/
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| 0:00.0 | How to Build a Church Counseling Ministry on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:18.0 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face. |
| 0:23.6 | This week, one of our training center directors, Tony Anderson, is joining us on the podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | Tony has served as an elder at Christian Family Chapel since 2007, and along with being a director of one of our training centers, of course, he is a |
| 0:39.9 | certified member with ACBC as well. Tony oversees the Hope Center, which is the biblical counseling |
| 0:47.6 | ministry of Christian Family Chapel, where they serve as one of our certified training centers. Tony is married to Lisa, who is also |
| 0:57.3 | a certified counselor. And today, our marketing and exhibiting coordinator, Taryn DeFeevers, is talking |
| 1:05.5 | with Tony on this subject about how to build a counseling ministry. You know, this is a very important |
| 1:11.8 | subject for us to be discussing as we receive this question so often from many of you who are |
| 1:18.3 | out there serving in local churches and you're wondering, how in the world do we get this |
| 1:22.9 | thing started? Well, Taryn was able to sit down with Tony to get some insight on his experience, his process, his progress, and the things that he's learned along the way. |
| 1:33.7 | So Taryn, we look forward to hearing your discussion with Tony. |
| 1:38.5 | Tony, we're thankful that you are here, and I know that you are someone who loves biblical counseling and is devoted to biblical |
| 1:46.0 | counseling in the local church and has a training center at your church of which you started with a |
| 1:50.9 | small team of people from the ground up. And so you've had many years of experience of developing |
| 1:55.3 | a counseling ministry at your church. And so we want to learn from your wisdom and experiences there. |
| 2:02.6 | I know it's a huge task to take on a counseling ministry. So could you help us think through what does it look like |
| 2:07.4 | for a person to get something like that going? Yeah, that's a good question. It is a huge task. |
| 2:12.0 | And so you definitely want to begin with pray, then pray and then pray some more. You want to ask God |
| 2:17.4 | to raise up some like-minded people |
| 2:19.3 | who will go down this journey with you. It's very helpful. But it's also very important, I think, |
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