Teleios Training Comes to Vineyard North West

Leigh, Karen, Ray and Jody are seen here working hard to figure out ways to take the Vineyard North West to a deeper level of care and nurture.

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Meg Rinck's article a few days ago noted that I started the Teleios ministry at College Hill Presbyterian Church in the late Seventies. From CHPC the very popular and practical approach to raising up lay pastors and lay helpers, was taken to the world as a very effective way to do discipleship and Bible study at the same time the church equips the members to provide care and counsel.

The Teleios Ministry is now operating under that and several other names in a wide variety of countries and languages. It is also continuing to spread its wings right here in the Queen City. Van and Laurie Cochrane are old friends from The Vineyard in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois who came here to pastor.

A coupe of years ago they planted a new Vineyard just off Colerain Avenue and it has grown like a weed. Van and Laurie have continued to study with me at Life Way Ministries and Yesterday I taught the Pastoral Staff the basic principles behind a Teleios Ministry that can develop the entire church into a healing-growth community over a short time.

A Critical Need In Cincinnati

Because I am a Clinical Counselor who founded an in-patient hospital and outpatient clinic, I know all too well how desperately we professionals need a strong Christian support system to prevent serious problems from developing out of minor issues. We also need good care and support for people who suffer from depression, anxiety, marital stress and other forms of emotional/relational problems.

Van and Laurie are on the cutting edge of providing the kind of support hurting people need. Their worship, preaching and love go a long way toward, "Healing the broken hearted and setting the captives free."