Assessments & Support Sessions for Church Leadership
ACCFS offers a variety of assessments and/or support sessions for individuals, you and your spouse, or your minister team. Understanding your personality as well as how you react to and approach circumstances can help you learn your tendencies and how to relate to others. Below is a list of potential assessments and sessions. To begin …
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ACCFS Overview
Helping the Hurting. Nurturing Hope. Encouraging Growth Our Mission Statement We will nurture, through counseling and teaching, the spiritual well-being of individuals through God’s word as it relates to their emotional, relational, and mental health needs. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:2). Our goal is to alleviate suffering and to promote Christian maturity so that people …
Resources for a New Elder
How to be a People Helper Author: Gary R Collins Everyone faces problems, and it is likely that we can help people more than we realize. This book helps people to: 1) become more sensitive to the feelings of others. 2) learn how to deal with “people problems” 3) learn how to use principles similar …
Children’s Mental Health
Children, like all of us, can struggle with a variety of issues for a variety of reasons. Sometimes these issues can be part of the normal growing process a child goes through, but often there may be emotional, relational, and even mental health challenges involved. The following resources are meant to inform about some common …
Truth Talk
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”- Proverbs 23:7 Truth talk is a tool to help you build godly, healthy self-talk. It takes only a few minutes to read the text or listen to the audio. ACCFS counselors frequently recommend that individuals read/listen to Truth Talk on a regular basis. It can …
Porn Landscape: An Overview
In April of 2016, some staff from ACCFS attended the Set Free Global Summit international conference which examined the church’s understanding and reaction to the reality of pornography as it exists in society and the church today. Conclusions from the Barna Group’s 2015 research study – The Porn Phenomenon were the statistical groundwork which framed up …
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Karen Knapp
Head Receptionist Karen received her Associates in Science Degree in 1991. Karen was in the management field for five years prior to becoming a wife and mother of four children. Karen was hired in February 2010 as Head Receptionist for ACCFS. In her position as Head Receptionist, Karen is responsible for meeting client’s needs, taking …
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Cheryl Rickets
Bookkeeper Cheryl received an Associate’s Degree in Accounting from J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, VA in 1979. She worked at at Simmon’s Oil Corp as a Senior Accountant in Phoenix, AZ from 1980 and 1984. Cheryl married her husband, Jon, in 1982, moved to Illinois, and worked at Heights Finance in Peoria as …
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Tim Funk
Administrator Tim worked as an electrician for local contractors in the Peoria area for 10 years prior going to work for Caterpillar Inc., where he worked for 26 years. He completed management training at Bradley University where he also earned a Bachelor of Science degree. He left Caterpillar in 2015 where he served as a …
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Bill Schmidgall
Church Outreach Services Specialist & Discipleship Counselor Bill farmed several years before beginning a 24-year career with the U.S. Postal Service. He served 20 years in management as a postmaster and was also a mediator and workplace environment consultant as well as a training facilitator. He retired from the Postal Service in March of 2009 …