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

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

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9781645073291

    Highlights

  • Practical framework for starting a sustainable, volunteer-led church counseling ministry.
  • Presents two adaptable models, including the G4 group-based model and a premarital/marital enrichment model.
  • Addresses oversight, ethics, and liability while focusing on gospel-centered care and support for mentors and leaders.
  • Paperback; 176 pages; includes foreword by J. D. Greear.
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  • Description

    Many churches would like to start a counseling ministry but do not know where to begin. Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling offers direction for creating a ministry built around lay-led counseling groups and mentoring. Drawing 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. The book explains how churches can minister the hope of the gospel to struggles of life, both sin and suffering, while avoiding unwise liability and keeping ministry responsibilities within the capacity of volunteers and leaders.

    Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling presents two flexible models for church-based care, including the G4 group-based model for common life struggles and a model focused on premarital and marital enrichment. It is designed to fit within the structure of a local church and to be implemented by trained volunteers, with attention to ethics, supervision, and the well-being of mentors and leaders.

    Product Details

    • Author: Brad Hambrick
    • Publisher: New Growth Press
    • Format: Paperback, 176 pages
    • Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
  • Additional Information
    UPC: 9781645073291
    Author: JD Greear
    Year: 2023
    Age Level: Adults
    Language: English
    Audience: Adults
    Product Category: Bible Study
    Filter Product Type: Physical
    Material: Paperback
    Cover Type: Paperback
    Condition: New
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What does Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling cover?

    Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling is a practical guide by Brad Hambrick for launching lay-led counseling groups and mentoring in local churches. It presents two adaptable care models (including a G4 group-based model and a premarital/marital enrichment model), and gives concrete guidance on training volunteers, supervision, oversight, ethics, and limiting liability. The book is a 176-page paperback with a foreword by J. D. Greear.

  • Who is this book intended for?

    Pastors, elders, ministry leaders, small-group leaders, and lay volunteers preparing to start or oversee a church-based counseling or soul-care ministry. The material is designed to be implemented by trained volunteers within a local church structure.

  • What are the two care models presented in the book?

    The book presents two flexible, reproducible models: a G4 group-based model for addressing common life struggles through lay-led small groups and mentoring, and a premarital/marital enrichment model focused on preparing and strengthening couples. Both are designed to be adapted to a church’s size and volunteer capacity.

  • How does the book address oversight, ethics, and liability?

    Hambrick provides practical frameworks for defining the scope of lay care, establishing supervision and referral protocols, setting confidentiality and boundary policies, and creating leader support structures. The guidance is aimed at protecting care recipients, volunteers, and the church while maintaining gospel-centered ministry.

  • How can a local church implement the strategies in this book?

    Use the book’s models to select an approach, recruit and train volunteer mentors, assign an oversight leader, create written policies for confidentiality and referrals, launch a pilot group or cohort, and provide ongoing supervision and leader care. The content is formatted for replication so churches can adapt steps and training to their context.

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