Christian Lay Counseling Certificate Training
Telephone Prayer & Crisis Line Ministry
“Teaching the ordinary layperson how to help others in times of personal crisis.”
A THREE-PHASED LAY COUNSELING MODEL
PHASE I
"How Can I Help?"
Telephone Prayer & Crisis Line Training
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This training is about life and how to handle the personal crisis situations that come into our lives.
It is a course in personal Christian Lay-Counseling that teaches how to reach out or respond when someone is in crisis. It presents a practical counseling model that utilizes Biblically based counseling techniques taking examples from the Ministry of Jesus.
course OBJECTIVES:
1. To give the student an understanding of personal crisis situations.
2. To help the student to understand the role of the personal counselor/helping friend.
3. To impart practical counseling skills to the student and build confidence through role play experience.
4. To broaden the student's counseling skills.
5. To teach the student how to go about solving problems.
6. To communicate the personal command from Christ that his followers should respond to the people in personal crisis and to inspire and challenge the student to answer the call of Jesus to minister to others.
7. To confirm the student’s understanding of the Christian faith.
8. To teach the student how to resist temptation and sin; and how to counsel others, helping them to change thought and behaviors.
9. To teach the student how to integrate his Christian faith into the personal counseling process.
10. The exercises and role play experiences thought-out the course builds the student's confidence and prepares him to answer the call to minister to people in crisis.
PHASE II
Intercessory Prayer
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this study you will learn what intercessory prayer is and how to do it effectively using the dynamic spiritual resources that have been delegated for this purpose. You will learn special applications of intercession to prayer line ministry.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon conclusion of this course, you will be able to:
1. Define prayer.
2. Explain how prayer is answered.
3. Summarize the role of prayer in the life of Jesus Christ.
4. Identify the levels of prayer.
5. Identify the different types of prayer.
6. Define intercessory prayer.
7. Explain the Biblical basis of the believer's ministry as an intercessor.
8. Identify Jesus Christ as our model for intercession.
9. Describe how intercession is done.
10. Explain why intercession is important and how to intercede and what to intercede for.
11. Summarize principles of effective intercession
12. Use spiritual resources for intercession.
13. Identify and eliminate hindrances to effective intercession
AND MORE...
Intercessory Prayer
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this study you will learn what intercessory prayer is and how to do it effectively using the dynamic spiritual resources that have been delegated for this purpose. You will learn special applications of intercession to prayer line ministry.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon conclusion of this course, you will be able to:
1. Define prayer.
2. Explain how prayer is answered.
3. Summarize the role of prayer in the life of Jesus Christ.
4. Identify the levels of prayer.
5. Identify the different types of prayer.
6. Define intercessory prayer.
7. Explain the Biblical basis of the believer's ministry as an intercessor.
8. Identify Jesus Christ as our model for intercession.
9. Describe how intercession is done.
10. Explain why intercession is important and how to intercede and what to intercede for.
11. Summarize principles of effective intercession
12. Use spiritual resources for intercession.
13. Identify and eliminate hindrances to effective intercession
AND MORE...
PHASE III
Crisis Intervention
Provides knowledge of basic crisis counseling from a biblical perspective for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Suicide and other related subjects including making proper referrals as needed.