Ambassadors Biblical Counselling and Care Inc. (ABCs), U.S.A, has conducted trauma healing for 2600 widows and also distributed assorted food items to 2500 other widows in Jos, Plateau.
ABC’s gesture was part of its ongoing Ambassadors Cup Bearers programme, which commenced on Jan. 18, and will end on Thursday.
Dr Allen Ade, President and Founder of ABCs, said that the programme also featured free medical outreach, where 1,000 people were treated for different ailments.
According to Ade, ABCs, through its ambassadors’ 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 that apart from addressing physical needs and leading the people to Christ, ABCs also trained 120 Church leaders on caring for souls in a local Church.
He said that the vision of ABCs was to help local and global Churches realise their unique ability to provide holistic, biblical, Christ-centered counseling to the leaders, in order to care for the souls of their flock.
“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.
Rev Daniel Dogo, ABCs’ Country Director, said that because of insecurity in the country, many people were traumatised, depressed, and anxious, and described the trauma healing and soul care as timely.
According to Dogo also, 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.
Also speaking at the event, a retired Colonel of the U.S. Army, Basil Catanzaro, said that he spent 34 years with the Marines, and in the course of his assignment, he traversed the world and that was when he knew the trauma and depression people were going through.
Catanzaro noted that the world had been making efforts to address trauma and depression through worldly means, but added that without knowing the cause of the problem, the right diagnosis would never be made.
“I realise 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 News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the delegation included ABCs’ ambassadors from Cameroon, Bostwana, and Hawaii. (NAN)
