November 2020 Newsletter

Angie possesses strong credentials and experience for working with individuals who have experienced trauma. She has an EdD in Professional Counseling and Supervision and is a respected director of the counseling center at Georgia Highlands College. Chris and Angie have traveled abroad with several Battlefield teams to minister through marriage events and missionary team retreats. Angie recently responded to a missionary in crisis in a difficult cultural context overseas. The situation called for Angie’s disaster mental health and trauma training in order to minister according to the person’s needs. They are grateful for supporters who stand at the ready to provide for immediate care such as this.

Chris and Angie like to work with people returning to the States from living and working abroad. Many times the transition is difficult for those ministering in a different culture and political system. Often, the missionaries need to process their experiences with trusted individuals. Chris and Angie are an excellent resource for ministering to these people.

Angie’s position at a local college and her leadership in the Georgia College Counseling Association make her a perfect fit to supervise counselors at Battlefield who are working toward licensure. Angie’s skill in coming alongside people in difficult parts of their story benefits the clients she serves and the counselors she supervises. At Battlefield and the college, suicide prevention is a large part of her work. In addition to her counseling work Stateside, Angie’s current sphere of influence has broadened to the international community through the use of technology.

Chris is a licensed marriage and family therapist and counselor who has gradually learned that his passions within the realm of the counseling profession lie in helping to train counselors through CE events and supervision. But, more than that, it is the field in which God has given him a platform for teaching. He believes God has designed and called him to teach. He first noticed this as a new believer while in college, but only recently did it become a reality. Chris is now a full-time professor at Liberty University. He is also an adjunct professor at Richmont Graduate University. God continues to provide a platform from which Chris is able to influence professionals in the counseling industry. He is President Elect of the Georgia College Counseling Association where he is organizing a conference called “The Spirit of College Counseling.”

Battlefield’s CE effort is a perfect place for Chris to focus his gifting as it blends teaching, training, and scholarship with our core values; values with which he agrees and embraces. He was the driving force behind our organization getting approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. Chris’ passion is to equip counselors. He loves to help them grow in the profession and be equipped in areas in which he himself felt ill-equipped when starting out. Chris wants to encourage counselors to feel free to be themselves and to use their unique gifting in the profession while abiding by the legal and ethical requirements currently set in place. He assists them in developing their personal approach to counseling. In supervision, Chris does all of the above and further helps these young counselors by challenging them to apply the theories learned in school to the counseling session.

Chris is planning to publish a book on a Christian approach to vocation/career decision making called Design Discovery: Finding Your Vocation through Relationship with Your Creator. It will include two new career assessment instruments. He has published three career counseling interventions in a book by the National Career Development Association. Angie is published in the Journal of Military and Government Counseling.

Chris and Angie are valuable team members, ministering not only to our clients, but to our staff as well. As God uses them to sow into us professionally and encourage us to be vessels of health and healing, they are making a decided effort to ensure Battlefield will be able to continue the legacy of offering care according to the needs of future clients.

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After years of referring students to Battlefield, Jeremy began to wonder if he may be called to be involved with their care. Out of Jeremy’s relationship with Nathan Phillips came the hopes of possibly answering the call to become a counselor. Nathan was instrumental in helping Jeremy discover that he was suited for counseling and after completing his MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Regent University, Jeremy began offering counseling at Battlefield.

Jeremy loves to work with college students adjusting to a major change. After over a decade of college ministry, he is familiar with the common themes of challenge and opportunity in this transformative season of life. Having worked with college students for many years, Jeremy and his wife Stacie have done premarital counseling with over thirty couples. Jeremy has found it an interesting shift from working with couples who think everything is great and are invited to look at things they have never considered to working with couples who are struggling to remember what “everything is great” felt like.

Jeremy works with couples who are in crisis or experiencing difficulties in their relationship. He does not shy away from taking a couple who says this will be their one session and then it is over. Jeremy has a way of infusing hope into these couples who believe there is no hope for their marriage. Often trust has been broken or they are experiencing another stressor such as recently having a baby. He helps them step back from the current situation to see one another’s hearts. They can find the space to do this in the Battlefield office. Jeremy sees that while some couples come in with only a pebble of hope while others have a boulder, caring for and adding to that hope makes it possible for couples to find and walk a new path for their relationship.

Having grown up in and been very involved in church all his life, Jeremy also has a heart for people who have been hurt by the Church. He has seen a lot of people whose deepest wounds were from either messages of the Church or from people in the Church who hold places of authority. Jeremy does not want someone’s relationship with their Creator to be hampered by their experience with the created. Frequently, people are carrying shame that has been instilled in them by well-meaning people. Since Genesis 3 we see that shame makes us want to hide from God and others. Jeremy believes people are most deeply wounded through relationships and God has created us to be healed through relationships as well. So, helping people to journey out of hiding and shame and into freedom and intimacy is a passion for him.

Jeremy, his wife Stacie, and their three girls live on a large family farm where Stacie oversees a menagerie of livestock and a variety of yummy crops. As a family they love playing outside, reading great books, doing crafts, and having spontaneous dance parties in the kitchen. They attend Seven Hills Fellowship where Jeremy serves as an elder. Jeremy continues to work for WinShape where he oversees training and development for WinShape staff.

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