Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Helping the Helper

I received an email from Tim Westbrook (Associate Director for Institute for Church & Family) telling me about an upcoming event called "Helping the Helper" on June 5-8 at Harding University. Tim claims the following:

The Institute for Church & Family would like to invite you to attend our
Helping the Helper seminar in June 5-8. We will cover your lodging and food
here on Harding's campus.


He also gives the following as a description of the seminar:

"In conjunction with Marriage and Family Therapy, we will host a seminar
designed to teach ministers and youth ministers how to reach out to those in
their communities who are hurting emotionally and mentally. All instructors
are licensed counselors with years of experience.

"The seminar is fluid dealing with sexual abuses, divorce, death, marriage,
mental abuse, mediation, etc."


He says that if anyone is interested they should contact Penny Light at 501-279-4660. Tim's email is twestbrook@harding.edu and the web site is http://www.churchandfamily.net/

I have been to their web site but couldn't find further information. This seems to be an interesting offering in light of the revelations of sexual abuse in the church by ministers in recent times. Does anyone know about this?

3 comments:

Matt said...

They have some really good faculty who might be involved but I have not heard about it.

Anonymous said...

Try the website now. The information should be there.

Tim W.

Bob Bliss said...

Thanks Tim.