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Counseling Blog

Redeeming Your Marriage (Part 1)

April 11, 2011

The following blog was written by Sojourn East member Terra Santos in preparation for the upcoming Redeem: Marriage Conference.
Do you ever wonder what happened to the excitement you once experienced with your spouse? Maybe your story sounds something like this:
I remember having butterflies the first time we held hands. By the sheer [...]

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Day 6—Leaving Haiti & the Trip Home: Friday, 28 May 2010

June 13, 2010

Waking up tired and sticky, the cold shower never felt so good!  I was up by 5:15am as we took turns taking showers, packing, and cleaning up evidence of our stay at the guesthouse for the past 5 days.  I applied one more layer of insect repellent from head to toe as we waited for [...]

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Day 5—The God of All Comfort & Tent Cities in Haiti: Thursday, 27 May 2010

June 11, 2010

I woke up around 3:45am by a loudspeaker that amplified the drone of a Haitian man whose message was delivered in a militant-like cadence.  It was hard to go back to sleep because I thought I heard the jeer of a crowd, which caused my mind to imagine a rebellious uprising taking place right outside [...]

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Day 4—Teaching & Longing for Home in Haiti: Wednesday, 26 May 2010

June 9, 2010

I woke up around 5:00am thinking about how I will teach the pastors about gospel counseling, which requires both understanding the heart of a person and proclaiming gospel truths in specific and personal ways. The Lord was gracious to help me sketch out the details and approach for the two practical skills training sessions. After [...]

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Day 3—A Birthday and A Spiritual Battle in Haiti: Tuesday, 25 May 2010

June 8, 2010

Right after receiving a “Happy 50th Birthday” text from my precious wife, my good friend Pastor Mike Wilkerson was the first one in Haiti to wish me a happy birthday … he confessed that my wife reminded him to do so!  I felt loved anyway!  I was thankful to not only wake up to another [...]

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Day 2–God’s Faithfulness in Haiti: Monday, 24 May 2010

June 4, 2010

I woke up after a good night’s sleep to the smell of an open wood fire, roosters crowing, and goats bleating.  Most Haitians cook outside since homes tend not to have indoor kitchens or bathrooms. By 6:45am I take a quick cold shower-no hot water available, spray on insect repellant from head to toe, eat [...]

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Churches Helping Pastors Conference–Haiti 24-27 May 2010

June 3, 2010

A massive earthquake hit Haiti on 12 January 2010 around 5pm, leaving an estimated 3,000,000 in need of humanitarian aid. At the end of April 2010, I received an invitation to be a part of a team to lead a pastors retreat in Port au Prince, Haiti sponsored by Churches Helping Churches.  We had 1 [...]

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Pastor Robert and a Council of Counselors

May 21, 2010

Pastor Robert Cheong will be attending the Council of Counselors task force this May, in an effort to aid Haitian pastors.
This is the counseling task force that will teach and equip atChurches Helping Pastors in May, where CHC will provide a week-long retreat for the beleaguered Haitian pastors. The team is Robert Cheong from Sojourn Community [...]

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It’s All About Gospel Vision!

May 6, 2010

What does the vision of Sojourn have to do with counseling? Answering this question from a traditional counseling perspective, you might simply say that Sojourn vision’s will reach more people in more communities … more people means more counseling needs which means more counselors needed. This answer is not really wrong but the perspective is [...]

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Biblical Counseling Coalition Summit Meeting, May 3-4, 2010

April 30, 2010

God is strengthening and unifying his church in the area of counseling. For too long, churches have shirked its responsibility in caring for its members as they struggle with life. Churches have allowed the modern therapeutic world to diagnose and deal with the problems of life and as a result, ministry leaders have lost perspective [...]

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