Thursday, October 1, 2009

Pastor Appreciation Month

October is Pastor Appreciation Month. If you are finding this website for the first time after seeing our video, then we want to thank you for checking out our website.

FreshWater exists to help people find significance and confidence in their lives. One of the original goals of FreshWater was to be a source of encouragement to Pastors and churches. The executive director of FreshWater, Chris Morton, served as a Pastor for over 10 years before leaving the ministry in 2008 to help care for his father and help him as he battles cancer. Though not currently in a located ministry, Chris continues to serve the community where he currently lives as he continues to help his dad. FreshWater provides free counseling to those who need it and assists the local churches and pastors through counseling assistance, worship leading, or supply preaching.

Thank you, again, for visiting our website. If you have any questions about the ministry, please contact us.
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Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." - John 4:13-14

What is Spiritual Direction?


We define Christian spiritual direction as help given by one Christian to another which enables that person to pay attention to God’s personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God, and to live out the consequences of the relationship. (William A. Barry, SJ and William J. Connolly, SJ, Center for Religious Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)

Is it the same as counseling?
Although very similar, spiritual direction provides a place to deal with issues that remain hidden and dark within a person’s soul, many times issues that have been suppressed for so long that the person doesn’t fully realize how much it is affecting them. Counseling’s primary focus is on a plan of action to deal with the effects of woundedness within a person’s life. We will sometimes refer to a counselor when a more clinical, psychological approach would be more beneficial. Spiritual direction’s primary focus is to teach people how to let God accompany them through all of their life, including their past pain. By companioning people in their pain, they will gain confidence from His presence and power.