Counseling
If you're dealing with doubts, grief, anxiety, depression, disappointment or lonelines, talking with another person can help you find truth, direction and healing. Everybody needs help at some point in their lives.
Pain is like water. It runs down where the floor is uneven and finds the lowest spot. The longer it sits there unattended, the more damage it does to the floor. And if left completely to its own, the water will find a crack or a crevice in the floor and move again to the next lowest spot that it can find. The initial problem was that the sink in the bathroom was leaking, but suddenly the basement walls are rotting out.
In the same way, traumatic things happen to people, but when we don't face the problem, that doesn't mean it goes away. It goes somewhere. Jesus was someone who was willing to face pain and trust that, on the other side, God offers us something better. When we embrace the painful things that have happened, we have faith that God will put us back together and redeem our pain.
At Mars Hill
While Mars Hill doesn't provide professional counseling, we do offer opportunities for you to share your story with a trained individual or with a support group. We would be honored to sit with you to discern your best next step. whether it be a licensed individual counselor, or a healing group opportunity here at the church, a Pastor is available to listen, honor your story and help begin your healing journey.
Retelling
This 12-week healing community is a place for you to tell your story and identify themes that have shaped your identity and beliefs. Together
we can learn that we are not alone, that we can be healed, and that we are part of God's redemption story. Register now for our next Retelling class, which begins on January 22 [registration deadline is January 13]. For more info, contact Michelle at 616-406-3940 or info@marshill.org.
Retelling Information | Retelling Registration Form
Other Resources
Cradles of Grace
Cradles of Grace is an extended care pregnancy support center dedicated to inspiring life transformation through the love of Christ in women who have chosen life for their unplanned pregnancy by providing mentoring, education and housing until lives are rebuilt. For more information, contact Carol Lubs at 616.874.6194.
healing Hearts - Abortion
There is hope and healing after abortion. All calls are confidential. Contact Jennifer at 616.566.0843 or Barb at 616.396.2764 or toll-free at 877.811.8710 or barbjr@healinghearts.org.
Men's Resource Center
The Men's Resource Center helps men to discover and explore what it means not just to be a man, but also to be a whole human being. Programs include a focus on issues of alcohol and drug abuse, sexual addiction, addiction to work. To learn more, call 616.456.1178 or visit www.menscenter.org.
Pregnancy Resource Center
415 Cherry St SE, Grand Rapids. Phone: 616.456.6873.
Safe Haven Ministries
Domestic Abuse Service for Women and Their Children offering Shelter, Counseling, Support Groups, and Educational Inservices. Daytime phone: 616.452.6664. After-hours phone: 616.940.2394. safehavenministries.org.
Well Spring Counseling Center
616.460.3341 / wellspring-counseling.org For more information, contact info@marshill.org or call 616.249.3337.