Information for Professionals
Message to Pastors and Professionals
HeartLife Professional Soul-Care is an interdenominational “not for profit” corporation designed and structured to function in accordance with the positions stated in our Position Paper. We are committed to support, strengthen, and grow the Body of Christ. We have a Board of Directors consisting of pastors and lay leaders.
Our clinicians are licensed professionals trained in both graduate programs and seminaries. Learn more about our staff. Our mission is to provide excellence in Christian soul-care, train and support staff and laity in the local church.
We believe this model of professional counseling is necessary if we are to be Christian Counselors. It has been researched, tested, and applied (in varying degrees) in other churches. It has been taught in Seminary. This model has been discussed in detail with preeminent Christian scholars, pastors, and theologians.
The Church has drifted away from its God directed, primary role in the care and cure of souls. With the support and direction of Christian scholars and theologians, it is our hope that the Church will confront our history of passivity. With God’s help and His direction, we can now begin the process of taking back what we relinquished to the world in the mid 1950’s.
HeartLife Professional Soul-Care has ecclesiastical oversight, accountability, criteria for selection of counselors, practice methodology, and risk protection for the local church. The model is designed to be a true ministry in structure and function. Combined with a church based Biblical Counseling Ministry (Pastoral Counseling) consisting of church staff and trained laity, we will reach into the body of the Church and reach out to a hurting world for the Glory of God.
HeartLife clinicians have been examined theologically and doctrinally. We are highly trained, broken people, saved by God’s incomprehensible grace dedicated to the principles in 2 Corinthians 1:3-7, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. Just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.”
If you are a pastor or Christian Counselor and wish to learn more about beginning a soul-care ministry, we will be honored to talk with you.
Chuck Hannaford, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Executive Director
