Vision statement
Healing and nurturing the broken hearted
Motto
To provide holistic development to the congregations
Objectives
- • To provide mental, emotional, and spiritual healing towards the human beings and develop a healthy personality
- • To provide guidance and counselling to the entire developmental stages
- • To provide quality training to the clergy and the laity to become barefoot counsellors
- • To enhance a bridge between church and the society
- • To provide rehabilitation towards the addicts, differently abled and the subaltern
- • To provide ample attention towards the contemporary pastoral challenges
- • To provide premarital counselling for healthy relationships of the families.
Strategies
- • Conduct awareness programmes
- • Arrange seminars and camps
- • Organize retreats
- • Compulsory premarital counselling workshops
- • Pastors counselling refresher courses
- • Short term training programmes for children, adolescents, and youths
- • In depth attention towards the challenging issues [addiction, suicide, etc]
Target plan
- • Equip barefoot counsellors to every section of agmdc
- • Develop a team of qualified counsellors from the district
- • Publish a yearly bulletin
- • Premarital workshops for two days in three regions
- • Short term training programme
- • Construct a counselling and rehabilitation centre
- • Regular family seminars
Courses
- Certificate in Clinical Pastoral Counselling [CCPC]
Medium: ENG/MAL | Duration: 6 Months Eligibility: Passed Higher Secondary
- POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN Clinical Pastoral Counselling [DCPC]
Medium: ENGLISH | Duration: 1 Year Eligibility: Degree in a branch of discipline
Resource persons
- 1. DR. SANTHOSH JOHN - DIRECTOR
- 2. DR. ISSAC V. MATHEW - PATRON
- 3. REV. K. S. SAMUEL – SECRETARY
- 4. REV. SAM P MATHEW-TREASURER
