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With great joy
and renewed enthusiasm we report that
Agape's counselors participated in an
all-day Team Building Event on June 25! We
would like to express heartfelt thanks to
Jodi Allen for creating the program for the
day and for giving us strategies to continue
fostering a sense of camaraderie and
togetherness into the future. Her
presentation was outstanding! She was a
professional among professionals, and
maintained a balance between focusing on
issues, development, fun and fellowship.
Jodi's presentation was counter to
the often stereotyped "team building day".
She engaged, challenged, and encouraged in a
relatable and authentic fashion. As a
corporate team builder, she delivered the
goods!
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Mary O'Brien
will be leading a children's
Social Skills Group
for boys ages 8-12, beginning July 2. This
group will focus on functional social skills
that your child can use in everyday social
settings. For more information or to
register, please call Mary at 314.303.3385.
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Beginning
June 20 and July 9,
Brenda McCall
will be
leading a therapeutic support group -
Compassion Fatigue
- for those suffering from this
secondary traumatic stress disorder. This
group will be offered at two different
locations. For more information
or to register, please call 314.229.9819.
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Carolyn Knarr
and Darrell Provinse would like to thank
Grace Church
for inviting them to hold a Single
Parenting Workshop on June 15. They touched
on communication patters, boundaries,
absentee parents, stress, and more.
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We welcome our
newest therapist to Agape,
Carolyn Knarr!
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Darrell
Provinse would like to thank
Joni
and Friends: International Disability Center
for inviting him to speak on the topic of "Fires of
Conflict: Going from Heat to Warmth"
on June 2.
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Read our
Article Resources:
Tyler Sparks and
Darrell
Provinse have written an article on a
definition and holistic evaluation of sexual
addiction - Sexual Addiction: A Multi-Factoral Approach.
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Read our
Article Resources:
Darrell
Provinse has written an article on anger
defined, expressed, and addressed -
Anger: A
Multi-Factoral Approach.
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Read our
Article Resources:
Kristin Pirrie
has written an article on stress -
Warning Signs of
Distress.
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Hannah Porcella
and Kristin
Pirrie offered an educational
presentation on the topic of clinical
depression to the Celebrate Recovery
leadership group at
Hope Church in Columbia, Illinois on
Feb. 26. This CR group had been
interested in gaining a more comprehensive
understanding of the difference between
sadness and depression, how addiction
and depression co-occur, and ways to
intervene when leaders observe members experiencing a
specific constellation of symptoms. There
was a time for questions and case examples
toward the end that allowed leaders to
verbalize and validate their experiences as
well as gather information about resources
relevant to the care of their members.
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Featured
Therapist: read Randi Borroff's
personal
note and article
on the what makes Christian counseling
distinct!
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Darrell
Provinse, Frances Thomas, and
Hannah Porcella
thank Grace Bible Church for the opportunity
to speak to during their lay counseling
training Jan. 26. The counselors
provided their perspective on Knowing
When to Refer to a Professional.
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Does God
really love me? Darrell Provinse
shared on the topic of "How I Know God Loves Me
(and You) at
Grace and Peace Fellowship
at 6:30 pm Sunday Nov. 7. Thank you to Grace
and Peace for this wonderful opportunity!
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Rachel Peterka,
Hannah Porcella,
and Darrell
Provinse thank
Grace
Church for the opportunity to present a
seminar on Depression on August 18.
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Darrell
Provinse thanks
First
Evangelical Free Church for the
opportunity to speak on "Knowing
God Loves Us" at Celebrate Recovery at 6
pm on Monday August 9.
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Hannah Porcella
and
Darrell
Provinse held a workshop on
Procrastination, hosted by
Grace Church
June 16. Many thanks to Grace for
providing this opportunity!
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Many thanks to
McGuire Furniture Rental & Sales
for their generous donation of furniture for
our offices.
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Hannah Porcella
and Darrell
Provinse held a Repairing
Relationships Workshop at
Grace
Church April 21. They presented on
forgiveness and reconciliation,
discussing both subjects in depth and as
different from one another. Thank you
to Grace Church for this engaging
opportunity.
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Thank you to
Home Depot for your gift card donation for
our Lake St. Louis work center construction!
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Darrell
Provinse's presentation at
Hope
Christian Church on "Dark Night of the
Soul: Understanding, Identifying, and
Treating Depression" went well. Thank
you, Hope Church, especially the Women's
Ministry, for the invitation to speak on
such a relevant issue.
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Darrell Provinse and
Kristin Pirrie
gave a presentation on adolescent suicide to
the youth group at Korean First Presbyterian
Church on October 26. Beginning and
ending with corporate prayer and worship,
the counselors presented statistics, risk
factors, and signs of suicide ideation in
teens.
Kristin led the group in discussing personal
insight and research on the topic, shedding
light on warning signs and depressive
symptoms that put teens at high risk.
They recognized that thoughts of suicide are
the result of "an imbalance of pain and
hope, and often a permanent solution to a
temporary condition." The group also
examined how to empathetically respond to
friends when they are in crisis and how to
seek help if the crisis is their own.
Darrell
effectively magnified biblical truths that can refresh a
hopeless heart: tethering the temporary painful
circumstances of our world to the irrefutable
permanency of God's perception of us. Both
Darrell and Kristin had a wonderful
experience--thank you Jim Han and other at Korean
First Presbyterian for the opportunity to connect
with your youth!
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Tai Yong co-led a
Saturday marriage seminar to couples at New City
Fellowship on August 22. The seminar was based
on research from the
Preparation and Relationship Enhancement Program,
focusing on recognizing poor communication, learning
speaker-listener techniques, expressing the self in
specific terms, coming to proper resolution, and
developing friendship. Not only did Tai
present reliable theory, he also allowed the couples
the opportunity to make the knowledge practical
through role play exercises.
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