Ambassador Biblical Counseling and Care Services USA, which is nonprofit Counseling training organization that equips Christians to provide holistic scripture based soul care for people suffering locally and globally has conducted trauma healing for 2600 widows and also distributed assorted food items to 2500 other widows in Jos, Plateau State.
ABC’s support to the widows mostly those affected during several attacks in Plateau state held during Ambassadors Cup Bearers programme, which commenced on January 18 and will terminate on February 8.
President and Founder of ABCs, Dr Arllen Ade while speaking to Journalists in Jos disclosed that they have also given out free medical outreach, where 1000 people were treated for different ailments.
According to him, ABCs, through its ambsasadors’ cup bearers, was following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ by not only preaching the gospel but also meeting the needs of the people.
He said that apart from preaching the gospel, Jesus Christ fed thousands and healed many people of different ailments.
The president further said apart from addressing physical needs and leading the people to Christ, ABCs also trained 120 church leaders in caring for souls in a local church.
He said that the vision of ABCs was to help local and global churches realize their unique ability to provide holistic, biblical, Christ-centered counseling in order to care for the souls of people well.
“We are equipping the church, repairing broken and hurting Christians, and also preparing repaired people with clinically informed Bible tools to help others in their Church and surrounding communities.
“The essence is to glorify God by equipping the saints to make disciples through counseling one another.
“We aspire to change one life at a time by counseling and training in the word, through the power of the spirit, and in the community of believers,” he added.
Also Speaking the ABCs’ Country Director, Rev Daniel Dogo said tbecause of insecurity in the country, many people were traumatised, depressed, and anxious, and described the trauma healing and soul care as timely.
Dogo said that the ministry’s training helps people come out of such situations.
The country director said that ABC organised its first counseling and training programme in Nigeria in 2018.
A retired Colonel of the US Army, Basil Catanzaro, said that he spent 34 years with the US Army, that he traversed the world, and that he knew the trauma and depression people were going through.
Catanzaro said that the world tries to address trauma and depression through wordly means and added that without knowing the cause of the problem, the right diagnosis cannot be made.
“I realize that the gospel is able to address everything that we are going through because our God is able to heal physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
“In teaching, we have been able to address the root cause of trauma. Whatever the source of the trauma or depression, the Bible has a solution to it,” he added.
The delegation included ABCs’ ambassadors from Cameroon, Bostwana, and Hawaii.
