Counseling & Discipleship Training 2018

Why do I need Counseling & Discipleship Training??

Individuals and families in our churches and communities encounter relationship challenges, sin struggles, and painful circumstances every day. They are desperately looking for help in how to respond to and endure these situations well.

Do you feel confident in your ability to lovingly and skillfully bring them to God’s Word for comfort and the answers they are seeking? Would you like to be better equipped to minister to the emotional, relational, and spiritual needs of the people around you? If so, please consider joining us for a three weekend discipleship & biblical counseling training event that will explore the topics of Heart, Hope and Home and how God’s Word speaks to all three.

Training Center
The training center providing the instruction will be Wheelersburg Baptist Church, hosted by Cross Pointe Biblical Care & Counseling. 

Friday
(September 21, October 12, October 26)
5:00pm-6:00pm Registration
6:00pm-9:00pm Sessions

Saturday
(September 22, October 13, October 27)
8:00am-5:00pm Sessions

Location
Each weekend of trainings will be held at
Winfield Baptist Church
12902 Winfield Road
Winfield, WV 25213

Cost
Single – $135 (preregistered), $150 (day-of)
Pastor – $100 (pre-registered), $125 (day-of)
Married Couple – $175 (preregistered),
$200 (day-of)

**Cost covers all three weekends and includes snacks, meals and conference materials. Prices are the same for both the Fundamentals and Advanced Tracks. 

Registration
Pre- Register: www.CounselingTraining18.EventBrite.com

If you are unable to register online and wish to pre-register, please email pastorandrew@winfieldbaptistchurch.com to make arrangements to send payment.

Day-of Registration begins each Friday at 5:00 p.m.

Featured Speakers

Pastor Brad Brandt: Certified counselor and Fellow with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC),  Pastor/Teacher at Wheelersburg Baptist Church.

Pastor Chris Moles: ACBC & IABC certified counselor, Pastor of Grace Community Church in Eleanor, WV. He is the author of The Heart of Domestic Abuse. Certified batterer intervention group facilitator and instructor/contributor with local criminal corrections/statewide agencies.

Dr. Dan & Pam Gannon: On the counseling team at Grace Bible Church, Bozeman, Montana where Dan is an elder. Dan and Pam bring their understanding of medical issues into the biblical counseling world and use their training as certified Biblical Counselors to address many aspects of the relationship between the medical world and Biblical counseling. Dan and Pam also teach several classes in the biblical counseling program at Montana Bible College.

David Beam: ACBC certified. Member, counselor and deacon at Wheelersburg Baptist Church.

Barbara Miller: ACBC certified. Member and counselor at Wheelersburg Baptist Church.

Pastor Andrew Gordon: Associate Pastor and Counselor at Winfield Baptist Church

What Are We Offering?

Working together with a training Center with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC), and being a training center for the International Association of Biblical Counselors (IABC), our goal is to equip local church leaders and members with the foundations to be able to help or counsel someone in need. The Foundations course lays the groundwork for ministering the word in people’s lives.
The advance Course is for those who wish to build on that foundation and go deeper into certain topics and be introduced to some others.

Foundations Course Topics Include:

  • Basics of Soul Care
  • The Need for Biblical Counseling
  • Process of Biblical Change
  • Key Elements of Biblical Counseling
    • Gathering Data
    • Discerning Problems Biblically
    • Giving Hope
  • Secular and Integration Theories
  • Marriage and Family
  • Guilt and Repentance
  • Forgiveness
  • Trials and Suffering
  • Fear and Worry
  • Anger
  • Depression
  • Sexual Sin
  • Medical and Physical Concerns
  • And many more!

Advanced Course:
(For those who have taken track 1 with us or another training center)

The purpose of this course is to build on the foundations with different specific topics, especially those relevant to our specific regional context. We cover a variety of topics from ministering those dealing with pain, abuse, eating disorders, struggling to see God in everyday life, and more. We will also have a few sessions in which we try to provide specific tools, building on the foundations but not covered in that course.

There will also be a time for case study review and discussion. The topics covered are beneficial to every person, whether a formal counselor or not.

For those pursuing certification with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors or the International Association of Biblical Counselors, this conference will satisfy the Track #1 requirements.

If you are interested in being a sponsor for this event, please contact Andrew Gordon (pastorandrew@winfieldbaptistchurch.com) or Chris Moles (gracecma@yahoo.com).