Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling: Models for Sustainable Church-Based Care

Many churches would like to start a counseling ministry, but they don't know where to start. Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling offers direction to churches for creating a ministry built around lay-led counseling groups and mentoring.Based on proven models used in his own congregation, Brad Hambrick lays out a clear plan to launch a sustainable soul-care ministry that can be replicated in churches of any size. Hambrick brings clarity to common points of confusion about church-based counseling and provides guidance on how to provide oversight for lay-led counseling groups and mentoring relationships.Your church can minister the hope of the gospel to the struggles of life—both sin and suffering—without incurring unwise liability or going beyond the capacity of your members.
• The first book in the Church-Based Counseling series is designed to help churches mobilize andutilize levels of care from friendship to mentoring to counseling groups.
• Discover two flexible models of church-based counseling ministry. One addresses common life struggles(the G4 model) and the other focuses on premarital and marital enrichment.
• Designed to fit within a local church and to be implemented by volunteers.
• Acknowledges and addresses questions and concerns of liability and ethics of lay counseling as well as the care and well-being of the mentors and leaders.
• Includes foreword by J. D. Greear

Publisher: New Growth Press
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781645073291

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Brad Hambrick, ThM, EdD, serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and has authored several books including God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles, and served as general editor for the Becoming a Church that Cares Well for the Abused curriculum.

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"Many churches love the idea of being a place of care, but they are sobered by the possibility of hurting rather than helping. Strong pastoral counseling, lay counseling, and counseling groups truly are difficult to do in an organized and effective way. Brad has done church leaders a real service by offering a realistic template for providing relational ministry wisely and well for the problems of life. Highly recommend." Michael Gembola, Director, Blue Ridge Christian Counseling; author of Anxious about Decisions