The news: Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) has announced a formal partnership with Evangelical Theological Seminary in India to expand Christian counseling training across the country. The collaboration aims to equip more Indian ministry leaders with professional-level Christian counseling skills to serve their congregations and communities more effectively.
Why it matters for church leaders: Mental health needs in Indian congregations are growing — and most pastors are navigating grief, trauma, addiction, and family crisis with little formal training. A partnership like this that brings internationally recognized seminary resources into an Indian context is a meaningful step toward building local counseling capacity inside the church.
The takeaway: Encourage your associate pastors or youth leaders to explore counseling training programs — a church that can counsel well is a church that retains and disciples people through life's hardest seasons.
Source: Standard Newswire
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