Your mission field just might start at your kitchen table. Perhaps you're a woman who wants to help others with their problems, but you're not sure how to reach out or what to say.
Kitchen Table Counseling is the resource you've
- Address your own needs so you can effectively help others
- Take people to Jesus without taking on responsibility for their burdens
- Discern whether others really want to change and grow, or just complain
- Balance a counseling ministry with your other life priorities
- Offer true biblical hope to others in the face of inexplicable heartache
Join authors Muriel Cook and Shelly Cook Volkhardt as they share the valuable lessons Muriel has learned throughout her life as a lay counselor addressing the needs of hurting women from a spiritual perspective. Kitchen Table Counseling will prepare you for the fulfilling, vital ministry of encouraging other women to know Christ and trust Him through the difficult experiences of their lives.
CONTENTS:Part 1: Guidelines for the Kitchen Table Counselor
- "I Need Help! Can I Talk with You?"
- "Am I Really Qualified to Be a KTC?"
- Getting a Handle on the Big Picture
- The Bottom Line of Most Problems
- When the Heartache Seems Unexplainable
- Keeping Your Priorities Straight
- Moving On to Spiritual Maturity
Part 2: Help for Dealing with Specific Issues
- Anger
- Controlling Husbands
- Depression and Burnout
- Difficult Family Members
- Fear
- Grief
- Married and Tempted
- Married to an Unbeliever
- Overbearing parents
- Pornography
- Sexual Abuse and Rape
- Singleness
- Spiritual Strongholds
- Suicide
- Worth
For the KTC in Training: Questions for Study and Discussion
For Leaders: Training Others to Become KTC
Topical Scripture Reference Index
Notes
COMMENTS from Readers
Book Dimensions: 14 x 21 cm.
Comments from people who have used this material:
You listen to her heartache, you care, you pray, but you don't know
what to do next. This clear, step-by-step book will guide you in helping
others deal with painful realities. It doesn't promise any unrealistic
quick fixes but instead lays out the path to the freedom of walking in
God's ways.
PAMELA REEVE/ professor; author of Faith Is....and Parables of the
Vineyard
You are holding a treasure chest full of wisdom, direction, and
biblical insight. Cook and Volkhardt have carefully crafted an
invaluable guide for every woman who has ever desired to see God bring
hope and healing to others. As you turn these pages, be prepared to draw
near to the true wonderful Counselor and watch Him transform your heart
as well.
ROBIN JONES GUNN/ author of the Sisterchicks novels and the Christy
Miller series
