The Spiritual Friendship Counseling class I teach is for the second year students, above. Every year I say, "This is the BEST group of students!" And again I say it.This class has been thoughtful to place a purple cover over the podium and bring new flowers for the lecturers each week.They sing hearty praises to the Lord at the beginning of each class.
One of the features of the counseling class is I pair the students up with a spiritual friend with whom they are to meet for six weeks. I aim to pair people from different locations, denominations, marital statuses and as many other factors as I can find. The idea is to allow the students to see that God can help them identify with their partner across all these barriers. Their testimonies to this at the end of the term are glorious. They are fired up to introduce these partnerships at home. They have seen God's empowerment and the benefit of sharing weaknesses and strengths together in a prayerful, caring relationship.
As has been mentioned before, pastors and other church leaders often get little training here. To have them catch the vision of what God can do through His word, His Spirit and His people is exciting.
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This is great Sue. Loved you sharing about this. Appreciate it that you work at being regular in your updates. You both do a great job - pictures are so good too.
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