We offer this local (Central Coast of California) AND online/distance Biblical Counseling Training course. Please contact us on contact form at the bottom of this page if you have any questions or if you are interested in signing up!
Biblical Counseling Course Overview:
*To be enrolled in this course, you will need your pastor’s recommendation. Please contact us for a recommendation form.
*This course will be led by an experienced Word Of Hope Ministries Certified Biblical Counselor. Men and women may enroll locally. If you prefer the online/distance option, please contact us for details. Completing our course will prepare you very well to pursue continued requirements for certification as a Biblical Counselor if that is your desire. We are happy to mentor you through your IABC certification process. We are an approved IABC Training Center.
*We utilize the Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship video training sessions and corresponding workbooks (Levels 1 and 2, plus their observation videos.) We also have some additional reading and assignments that you will be given throughout your training.
*If you prefer not to pursue certification but wish to take our course, you will not be qualified to call yourself a “Biblical Counselor” but you will certainly be equipped to do excellent one-another ministry in your sphere of influence. It is not a requirement that you pursue certification. (Our online training is only for those who wish to seek certification.)
NOTE: FOR A MORE DETAILED EXPLANATION OF UPCOMING LOCAL TRAINING, PLEASE GO TO THE
Training Instructions PAGE.
The following video is an overview of the training videos we utilize in our course:
Biblical Counseling Course Overview:
*To be enrolled in this course, you will need your pastor’s recommendation. Please contact us for a recommendation form.
*This course will be led by an experienced Word Of Hope Ministries Certified Biblical Counselor. Men and women may enroll locally. If you prefer the online/distance option, please contact us for details. Completing our course will prepare you very well to pursue continued requirements for certification as a Biblical Counselor if that is your desire. We are happy to mentor you through your IABC certification process. We are an approved IABC Training Center.
*We utilize the Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship video training sessions and corresponding workbooks (Levels 1 and 2, plus their observation videos.) We also have some additional reading and assignments that you will be given throughout your training.
*If you prefer not to pursue certification but wish to take our course, you will not be qualified to call yourself a “Biblical Counselor” but you will certainly be equipped to do excellent one-another ministry in your sphere of influence. It is not a requirement that you pursue certification. (Our online training is only for those who wish to seek certification.)
NOTE: FOR A MORE DETAILED EXPLANATION OF UPCOMING LOCAL TRAINING, PLEASE GO TO THE
Training Instructions PAGE.
The following video is an overview of the training videos we utilize in our course:
We have two goals for our Biblical Counseling Training Program:
*Churches will become increasingly equipped to care for people as men and women become qualified to serve as Certified Biblical Counselors.
*To raise up more Certified Counselors to work with Word Of Hope Ministries to provide in person and online counseling for those who do not have the option to receive it in their own churches.
Upon completion of our Training Program, some may choose to become Certified with the International Association of Biblical Counselors. We are an IABC approved Training Center and can assist trainees through their certification process both locally and online.
These Certified Counselors may wish to affiliate with Word Of Hope Ministries as a counselor, or serve in their own church, or serve in another ministry capacity, or a combination of these and more possibilities.
*Churches will become increasingly equipped to care for people as men and women become qualified to serve as Certified Biblical Counselors.
*To raise up more Certified Counselors to work with Word Of Hope Ministries to provide in person and online counseling for those who do not have the option to receive it in their own churches.
Upon completion of our Training Program, some may choose to become Certified with the International Association of Biblical Counselors. We are an IABC approved Training Center and can assist trainees through their certification process both locally and online.
These Certified Counselors may wish to affiliate with Word Of Hope Ministries as a counselor, or serve in their own church, or serve in another ministry capacity, or a combination of these and more possibilities.