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ABOUT NEAR HAVENWelcome to the place where location and therapy and personal service meet. Just minutes outside of Baltimore Maryland, you will find a place of peace and a center of calm in this busy world - Near Haven. Near Haven is your pastoral destination for the purpose of relaxing, resolving and renewing. Near Haven’s facilities provide a perfect setting for the psychological, spiritual and whole health services we offer our clients. Fronted by a fruit orchard, the three acre Near Haven estate features a prayer garden, a meditative walking labyrinth, and an organic vegetable garden in the rear. The property is distinguished by its symphony of decorative flowers and shrubbery that are frequently visited by local birds and exotic butterflies. In the spacious, sun drenched main complex, you are embraced by panoramic views of the grounds, and warmed in winter by a magnificent river stone fireplace and other interior appointments that must be experienced personally; such as the state-of-the-art acoustic therapy room which awaits to envelop you with soothing therapeutic music, ushering you into a state of deep relaxation. Our integrated approach to optimum health brings together cultural, spiritual and therapeutic modalities, creating a holistic vision and a therapeutic path toward a healthy mind, body and spirit. People are daily being blessed at Near Haven. Our peaceful facility, ongoing therapeutic programs, services, and Whole Health Living lectures and classes for individuals, couples, families, and small groups make Near Haven your personal choice for help and healing toward whole health. ABOUT BRIDGE POINT MINISTRIESAt Bridge Point, clinicians and clergy connect to provide effective Christian-biblical counseling services to the church, on a retainer basis. Our services include professional resources to the Pastor for case referral, case consultation and/or clinical supervision, personal/professional continuing education and development, and for executive coaching. Our direct services to church members include individual, couples, and family counseling; personal or professional biblical conflict resolution; personal and family financial and estate planning; & whole health biblical stewardship living. We also provide consulting services to the church, the Pastor, and the church Board. ABOUT THE UNIVERSAL PEACEMAKERS FOUNDATIONSince its inception in 1994, The Universal Peacemakers Foundation, a Maryland nonprofit, non-stock corporation, has had as its purpose charitable, educational, training, and counseling services in the area of crisis & conflict resolution, in accordance with section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; and the undertaking of other projects, programs, and activities consistent with tax exempt IRS Code. Jesus is the “universal peacemaker,” and the foundation of our work to help people learn to resolve conflict in an effective and biblically faithful manner. ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLERGY COACHINGThe clergy-focused program of Bridge Point Ministries, the ICCC is designed to help clergy build the characteristic fruit of Christian coaching in their own lives. These Christian coaching characteristics require accountability, encouragement, and a personal commitment to growth. The ICCC is designed to help clergy become “peacemakers” in their marriage relationship, in their parenting relationships, in their extended family relationships, in their church family relationships, and in their relationships in society, bringing all Christian life and living under the authority of the Church of God which is accountable to the Word of God. The ICCC is involved in helping clergy more clearly discern, articulate, and live-out God’s will for their lives in four critical areas: their call to the clergy, their Christian character, the content of their ministry, and the continuation of their ministry, TO THE GLORY OF GOD !!! ABOUT THE INSTITUTE FOR CHRISTIAN CLINICAL SUPERVISIONThe clinician-focused program of Bridge Point Ministries, the ICCS mission is to provide future solutions now for the problems that emerge when people have not found the job that God wants them to do. The solutions are embedded in professional supervision. The ICCS vision involves the expert professional supervisor as “the student who learns ahead” , “leading from one step behind”, another less experienced professional. The ICCS goals are: to emphasize and promote the qualities of a Christian Biblical Counseling Supervisor; through the use of the tools of the Christian Biblical Counseling Supervisor; for the worldwide offering of “future solutions now”; in the provision of clinical supervision services; and training in clinical supervision. ABOUT THE BRANTLEY GROUPTHE BRANTLEY GROUP has as its company mission the provision of Christian management and mental health services to individuals, couples, and families who are learning to live, love, and serve like Christ. Within the financial, emotional, and spiritual realms, we provide people with adequate and accurate information, in a timely manner, so that they can make important decisions that affect their lives and the lives of their families. We are Christian/Biblical role models for individuals, couples, and families; and advisors to Christian professionals serving the Body of Christ. We are God glorifying Kingdom Agenda people when we are disciples of Jesus Christ, and His “ministers of reconciliation” in all our human relationships, in our families, in our church, and in our community. II Corinthians 5:17-21 THE BRANTLEY GROUP manages THE UNIVERSAL PEACEMAKERS FOUNDATION, a Maryland non profit organization that sponsors and hosts BRIDGE POINT MINISTRIES @ NEAR HAVEN |
STATEMENT OF FAITHWe believe that the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired and only infallible authoritative Word of God. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through his shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary. We believe that a person is justified by grace alone, through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ alone. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost—those who are saved, unto the resurrection of life, and those who are lost, unto the resurrection of damnation. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ and His Church. |
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