The Faculty of Counselling and Health Care aims to disciple nations by training and mobilizing followers of Christ to bring God’s healing to the nations as it relates to physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and relational health. The faculty has the family as a focus, because the family is widely recognized as a basic building block of society. Three major areas of emphasis in our training programmes are biblical counselling, primary health care, and family ministries.

Biblical counselling is a means by which people can be brought into an encounter with God to receive revelation, healing, grace and spiritual authority. Our training programmes equip counsellors to help others grow in personal and relational wholeness.They can see changes in the thinking, attitudes, feelings and behaviour that result from personal choices, family issues, conflict, compulsive behaviours, abuse and the wounds of injustice. Around the world, improved access to basic health care is an almost universal felt need. Health care training focuses on helping families and communities prevent and treat diseases and improve their water, nutrition and child deliveries at the household level. Students learn skills in assessment, treatment, prevention, and education.

Family ministry training schools and seminars equip students and offer healing in the context of a biblical understanding of family. God’s intention for family is that it be a place of love and nurture, where one’s identity and values are shaped; where they learn acceptance and encouragement; honour and submission; discipline and forgiveness This model then becomes a powerful evangelistic bridge for strengthening families and discipling nations. An important focus for graduates of this faculty is the poor and needy. Students learn an integrated biblical model of ministry that is easily adaptable to different cultural and social settings, providing a powerful entry into the lives of individuals and families.