Life's Seven Ultimate Questions

Learn Biblical Answers to Life's Seven Ultimate Questions

What does the Bible say about the core questions we all ask?

1. What is truth? Where do we find answers?
2. Who is God?
3. Who am I?
4. What went wrong? Why do I sin and suffer?
5. How do people change?
6. Where am I headed?
7. How can I help?

Find out Friday, November, 6, from 9 AM to Noon during my interactive Christian Counseling In-Service “How to Care Like Christ” at Family Concerns Counseling in Valparaiso, IN.

Space is limited, so if you are interested in attending please contact:

Dave Bauer
Family Concern Counseling
2004 Valparaiso St in Valparaiso, Indiana
219-477-5646
famcounseling@yahoo.com
For direction or more about Family Concern Counseling visit: www.familycounsel.org

Purchase “How to Care Like Christ”

You can purchase a copy of the manuscript on which the seminar is based at: http://bit.ly/DEKwc

Other Opportunities

If you're not in the Northwest Indiana area and would like to attend or host a seminar, contact me at rpm.ministries@gmail.com to discuss a half-day In-Service or a Full-Day seminar in your area.

Answering Life's Seven Ultimate Questions

Be Empowered to Care Like Christ

Do you minister to people’s personal needs and care deeply, but desire further equipping so you can care like Christ?

Do you want to be empowered to use the Bible more wisely, powerfully, and lovingly?

Would you like to learn biblical answers to life's seven ultimate questions?

Then attend the RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ.

Our next upcoming How to Care Like Christ Seminar:

Saturday, October 31, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, 1615 Third Street, N.W., Washington DC.

*Cost:

$25 per person. Your costs include a continental breakfast, a light lunch, the seminar notes, and the full-day seminar presentation by Dr. Kellemen.

*To Register:

Contact the Church Office at 202-667-1833 and ask for Minister Charles Traylor and the Changing Lives Seminar.

Or email Paula Stevens-Lassiter at mtsinaidc@verizon.net

Enjoy Life Changing Seminars

Enjoy Life Changing Seminars

I know you are committed to being fully equipped to minister to God’s people for God’s glory.

I also realize that sometimes it is difficult to find a seminar that doesn’t feel like a waste of time, impractical, unbiblical, too academic, boring, or irrelevant.

That’s why I want to introduce you to five seminars that all share the same passion: to provide Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed ministry equipping so you can change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

Each of these seminars has been field-tested in churches, para-church organizations, and college and graduate school campuses. They are biblical, practical, user-friendly, and interesting.

You will enjoy engaging biblical teaching, creative PowerPoint presentations, stirring vignettes, life-changing interaction, moving personal applications, and relevant ministry implications.

After reading the following summaries, please contact us to discuss attending or hosting an RPM Ministries Equipping Seminar: rpm.ministries@gmail.com or 219-662-8138.

Changing Lives Seminar:
How to Care Like Christ

Do you minister to people's personal needs and care deeply, but desire further equipping? Do you want to be empowered to use the Bible and Christian living principles more wisely, effectively, powerfully, and lovingly? Then attend a Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ.

Attend If You Want to Be Empowered and Equipped to:

*Understand people biblically: Discover how God designed us to live, love, and relate.
*Diagnose problems scripturally: Uncover what went wrong--why do we do the things we do?
*Prescribe God's solutions (soul-u-tions) effectively--apply Christ's answers for our daily life issues.
*Weep with those who weep: Offer sustaining care for discouraged people--empathize with people.
*Give hope to the hurting: Offer healing comfort for suffering people--encourage people as you relate God's truth to their daily lives.
*Be a dispenser of grace: Offer reconciling care-fronting for sinning people--enlighten people as you speak the truth in love.
*Disciple, coach, and mentor: Offer guiding counsel for growing people--empower people to tap into Christ's resurrection power.

For a fuller summary of this seminar, please visit: http://bit.ly/o7TxX

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses Seminar:
How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting

Have you experienced a loss and do you long to find God’s hope in your grief? Do you desire to minister God’s healing to your grieving friends? Then discover God’s healing for life’s losses.

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses equips you to apply eight scriptural stages in your response to life’s losses—helping you to find hope when you’re hurting. It also empowers you to minister healing hope to others so that they can face suffering face-to-face with God.

Attend If You Want to Be Empowered and Equipped to:

*Experience personal healing and biblical hope.
*Encounter God in the midst of your suffering.
*Empathize with hurting people more compassionately.
*Encourage suffering people more competently.
*Empower your congregation to become a “hospital for the hurting.”

For a fuller summary of this seminar, please visit: http://bit.ly/uvRog

Sacred Friendships Seminar:
Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith

*Co-Presented by Bob Kellemen and Susan Ellis

Do you long to learn from godly women of the faith how to be a powerful spiritual friend? Far too often we build our models of ministry by ignoring half of the Christian world—women. Sacred Friendships gives voice to the voiceless by celebrating the legacy of Christian women, and by helping all Christians—men and women—to learn from their examples how to be powerful spiritual friends.

At the Seminar, Men and Women Will:

*Be empowered by the heroic sisters of the Spirit to be powerful spiritual friends.
*Be enriched by past wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters concerning how to nurture and enjoy godly living in the home.
*Be enlightened to apply proven ways to help people find healing hope in the midst of deep pain.
*Be enabled to minister more effectively in cross-cultural settings by uncovering the buried treasure of wisdom contained in the legacy of women soul care-givers and spiritual directors.
*Be encouraged to skillfully practice the historic soul care and spiritual direction arts of sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding.
*Be equipped to build healing communities where Christians find courage and comfort in God and each other.

For a fuller summary of this seminar, please visit: http://bit.ly/XSAKB

Heroes of the Black Church Seminar:
Celebrating the Legacy of African American Christianity

Do you long to learn from African American heroes of the faith how God uses suffering to move His people to a place of healing hope? Dr. Kellemen equips Christians of all races to be empowered by the Heroes of the Black Church to minister God’s healing hope to one another.

At the Seminar, Christians of All Races Will:

*Be empowered by the founding fathers of the African American church about how to be a godly male leader.
*Be equipped by the heroic sisters of the spirit of the African American church to be a powerful female spiritual friend.
*Be enriched by past African American husbands, wives, fathers, and mothers concerning how to nurture and enjoy godly living in the home.
*Be enlightened to apply proven ways to help people find healing hope in the midst of deep pain by identifying with past African American believers.
*Be enabled to minister more effectively in cross-cultural settings by uncovering the buried treasure of wisdom contained in the legacy of African American soul care and spiritual direction.
*Be encouraged to skillfully practice the historic soul care arts of sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding.
*Be enthused to build healing communities where Christians find courage and comfort in God and each other.

For a fuller summary of this seminar, please visit: http://bit.ly/10a08K

Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency Seminar:
A Christ-Centered TEAM Approach

Do you long to relate and minister effectively in our culturally diverse society? Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency will equip you to develop four core biblical intercultural relational skills. Be empowered to relate like Christ.

Attend If You Want to Be Empowered and Equipped to Implement the TEAM Intercultural Relational Competencies of:

*T: Taking another person’s earthly perspective through empathy and culturally-informed listening.
*E: Engaging in bridge-building spiritual conversations through focusing on God’s eternal perspective.
*A: Abolishing barriers through forgiveness and reconciliation.
*M: Making intercultural peace through spiritual renewal.

For a fuller summary of this seminar, please visit: http://bit.ly/ZETIN

All Seminars Are Presented or Co-Presented
by Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., LCPC

Bob is a nationally-known speaker, author, consultant, educator, pastor, and counselor. He’s the author of Beyond the Suffering, Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Sacred Friendships, and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. He has equipped thousands of lay people, pastors, and counselors as Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department (Capital Bible Seminary), as Director of the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network, and as Founder/CEO of RPM Ministries.

Be Empowered to Care Like Christ

Be Empowered to Care Like Christ

Do you minister to people's personal needs and care deeply, but desire further equipping? Do you want to be empowered to use the Bible and Christian living principles more wisely, effectively, powerfully, and lovingly?

Then attend or host an RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ.

Attend If You Want to Be Empowered and Equipped

You will be equipped to:

*Understand people biblically: Discover how God designed us to live, love, and relate.

*Diagnose problems scripturally: Uncover what went wrong--why do we do the things we do?

*Prescribe God's solutions (soul-u-tions) effectively--apply Christ's answers for our daily life issues.

You will be empowered to:

*Weep with those who weep: Offer sustaining care for discouraged people--empathize with people.

*Give hope to the hurting: Offer healing comfort for suffering people--encourage people as you relate God's truth to their daily lives.

*Be a dispenser of grace: Offer reconciling care-fronting for sinning people--enlighten people as you speak the truth in love.

*Disciple, coach, and mentor: Offer guiding counsel for growing people--empower people to tap into Christ's resurrection power.

Select from Three Upcoming RPM Ministries
Changing Lives Seminars

1. Saturday, September 26, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM at Community Evangelical Free Church, 4501 Franklin St., Harrisburg, PA 17111.

*To register online please visit: http://bit.ly/P6mlX. For more information please visit: http://bit.ly/p8bjc. To talk to a real live person contact Pastor John Heater at 717-545-1354.

2. Saturday, October 10, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM at Grace Baptist Church, 7210 Race Track Road, Bowie, MD 20715.

*To learn more please visit http://bit.ly/lX5PG. To register contact Pastor Mark Tanious at 301-262-1767. Or, download the online registration at: http://bit.ly/zJMvy

3. Saturday, October 31, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, 1615 Third Street, N.W., Washington DC.

*Contact the Church Office at 202-667-1833 to register. Ask for Minister Charles Traylor and the Changing Lives Seminar. To visit the church website go here: http://bit.ly/N35Cd.

Host an RPM Ministries Seminar

Perhaps you're thinking, "But I don't live close enough to any of those host churches." Then I'd love to connect with you so we could host an equipping event near you.

RPM Ministries exists to equip God's people to change lives with Christ's changeless truth through Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed biblical counseling and spiritual formation.

If your church, para-church group, ministry, or school would like to host an RPM Ministries Seminar, In-Service, or Presentation, please email us at: rpm.ministries@gmail.com or call us at: 219-662-8138.

You can choose from the following five equipping options:

1. Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ. To learn more, please visit: http://bit.ly/o7TxX.

2. God's Healing for Life's Losses: How to Find Hope When You're Hurting. To learn more, please visit: http://bit.ly/uvRog.

3. Heroes of the Black Church: Celebrating the Legacy of African American Christianity. To learn more, please visit: http://bit.ly/10a08K.

4. Sacred Friendships: Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith. To learn more, please visit: http://bit.ly/XSAKB.

5. Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency A Christ-Centered TEAM Approach. To learn more, please visit: http://bit.ly/ZETIN.

In Christ's Grace,

Bob

Biblical Grief Seminar

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses
How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting

A Half-Day or Full-Day Seminar on Grieving and Growing

Have you experienced a loss and do you long to find God’s hope in your grief?

Do you desire to minister God’s healing to your grieving friends?

Then discover God’s healing for life’s losses.

Dr. Bob Kellemen, in God’s Healing for Life’s Losses, equips you to apply eight scriptural stages in your response to life’s losses—helping you to find hope when you’re hurting. Bob will also empower you to minister healing hope to others so that they can face suffering face-to-face with God.

Presented by Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., LCPC

Bob is a nationally-known speaker, author, consultant, educator, pastor, and counselor. He’s the author of Beyond the Suffering, Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Sacred Friendships, and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. He has equipped thousands of lay people, pastors, and counselors as Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department (Capital Bible Seminary), as Director of the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network, and as Founder/CEO of RPM Ministries.

Attend and You Will Learn How To:

*Apply to your life a four-stage biblical model of facing life’s losses with courageous honesty.

*Apply to your life a four-stage biblical model of finding healing hope by finding God.

*Apply proven biblical principles to help hurting people to move through the biblical stages of hurting and grieving: candor, complaint, cry, and comfort.

*Apply proven biblical principles to help hurting people to move through the biblical stages of hope and growth: waiting, wailing, weaving, and worshipping.

*Practice skillfully the biblical counseling and soul care arts of sustaining and healing.

*Build healing communities where Christians find courage and comfort in God and each other.

Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate, Culturally-Informed Biblical Grief Counseling

*Experience personal healing and biblical hope.

*Encounter God in the midst of your suffering.

*Empathize with hurting people more compassionately.

*Encourage suffering people more competently.

*Empower your congregation to become a “hospital for the hurting.”

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses Seminar Schedule

Session One: Launching the Journey of Grief: Honesty with Yourself and with God—Candor and Complaint

Session Two: Inviting God to Join Your Journey: Finding God Even When You Can’t Find Answers—Cry and Comfort

Session Three: Deepening Your Journey During the Dark Night of the Soul: On the Road to Hope—Waiting and Wailing

Session Four: Traveling with God on the Journey of Faith: Joining the Larger Story—Weaving and Worshipping

Endorsed by Pastor Steve Viars

Here are three reasons why I heartily and joyfully encourage you to learn from God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. It courageously faces the hard questions. You are probably fed up with pat answers and pious platitudes. Plastic smiles do not work, not when you are suffering. Bob writes with the seasoned wisdom of a winsome counselor who has spent many hours compassionately listening to people whose hearts are breaking. It skillfully takes you to God’s Word. Listening is wonderful but it is seldom enough. Bob is a careful student of the Bible. He believes that the living God has direction and answers for every hurting person who will humbly come to Him (Matthew 11:29). I went to college and seminary with Bob—I know that he is a diligent and accomplished student and scholar. Yet this book does not read like a distant theological treatise. It is more like a wise conversation with a spiritual friend. It passionately points you to the Savior. The Bible is less like an encyclopedia and more like a novel. Bob’s goal is not to give us a few verses that we simply memorize and recite when times get rough. He is inviting us to use suffering as an opportunity to grow more in love with the One who suffered supremely for us. That is why there is hope for life’s losses.

To Host or Attend a Seminar, Contact:

RPM Ministries, PO Box 270, Crown Point, IN 46308, 219-662-8138
http://www.rpmministries.org/, rpm.ministries@gmail.com

Equipping You to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth

Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate,
and Culturally-informed Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation

Sacred Friendships Seminar

Sacred Friendships Seminar
Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith

A One Day Seminar Presented by
Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., LCPC, and Susan Ellis, MA

Do you long to learn from godly women of the faith

how to be a powerful spiritual friend?

Far too often we build our models of ministry by ignoring half of the Christian world—women. Sacred Friendships gives voice to the voiceless by celebrating the legacy of Christian women, and by helping all Christians—men and women—to learn from their examples how to be powerful spiritual friends.

Bob and Susan

Bob is a nationally-known speaker, writer, consultant, educator, pastor, and counselor. He’s the author of Beyond the Suffering, Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Sacred Friendships, and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. He has equipped thousands of lay people, pastors, and counselors as Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department (Capital Bible Seminary), as Director of the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network, and as Founder/CEO of RPM Ministries.

Susan is the co-author of Sacred Friendships and an adjunct professor and female mentor in the MA in Christian Counseling and Discipleship (MACCD) Department, Capital Bible Seminary. She has mentored hundreds of women in church, para-church, and educational settings.

At the Seminar, Men and Women Will:

*Be empowered by the heroic sisters of the Spirit to be powerful spiritual friends.

*Be enriched by past wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters concerning how to nurture and enjoy godly living in the home.

*Be enlightened to apply proven ways to help people find healing hope in the midst of deep pain.

*Be enabled to minister more effectively in cross-cultural settings by uncovering the buried treasure of wisdom contained in the legacy of women soul care-givers and spiritual directors.

*Be encouraged to skillfully practice the historic soul care and spiritual direction arts of sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding.

*Be equipped to build healing communities where Christians find courage and comfort in God and each other.

Endorsed by Julie Clinton

“Dr. Bob Kellemen and Susan Ellis, in their compelling seminar, Sacred Friendships, provide a voice for the voiceless. Like never before, they tell ‘her story’—the story of our great female forbears in the faith. As we listen, we do not simply learn historical facts; we are empowered and equipped to practice soul care and spiritual direction today. Lay people—male and female, students, Christian counselors, pastors, and spiritual directors will all glean a wealth of life-changing ministry principles from the unburied treasure of historic feminine soul care and spiritual direction.”

Sacred Friendships Seminar Schedule

8:00-8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45-8:55 Praise and Worship

8:55-9:00 Greeting and Prayer

9:00-10:30 Session One: So Great a Cloud of Witnesses: Following the Ancient Paths

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Session Two: Spiritual Friends to Spiritual Giants: Mothers and Daughters of the Church

12:00-1:00 Lunch Fellowship Together

1:00-1:10 Praise and Worship

1:10-2:30 Session Three: Coaching Others in the Spiritual Olympics: Women
Spiritual Champions

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-4:00 Session Four: The Friendship of Women: Consolers of Souls

To Host or Attend a Seminar, Contact:

RPM Ministries, PO Box 270, Crown Point, IN 46308, 219-662-8138

http://www.rpmministries.org/, rpm.ministries@gmail.com

Equipping You to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth

Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate,
and Culturally-informed Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation

Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency: TEAM

Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency
A Christ-Centered TEAM Approach

Do you long to relate and minister effectively in our culturally diverse society?

Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency will equip you to develop four core biblical intercultural relational skills.

Be empowered to relate like Christ.

Enjoy engaging PowerPoint presentations, stirring vignettes,
moving personal applications, and intercultural ministry implications.

Facilitated by Dr. Bob Kellemen

Bob is a nationally-known speaker, writer, consultant, educator, pastor, and counselor. He’s the author of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction, Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Sacred Friendships, and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. He has equipped thousands of lay people, pastors, and counselors as Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department (Capital Bible Seminary), as Director of the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network, and as Founder/CEO of RPM Ministries.

Our Vision

After successful participation in Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency, Christians of all races will be able to implement the TEAM intercultural relational competencies of:

T: Taking another person’s earthly perspective through empathy and culturally-informed listening.

E: Engaging in bridge-building spiritual conversations through focusing on God’s eternal perspective.

A: Abolishing barriers through forgiveness and reconciliation.

M: Making intercultural peace through spiritual renewal.

Our Passion

Cultivating Intercultural Competency is based upon the biblical conviction that God in Christ is moving all of history toward an eternity where “a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people, and language” will stand before the Lamb in united worship (Revelation 7:9-10). Our goal is to equip one another to relate now in light of our eternal future so that God is glorified and others are attracted to Christ by our love.

Contact Us:

To host or attend an RPM Ministries presentation on Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency, contact us at:

RPM Ministries
PO Box 270, Crown Point, IN 46308, 219-662-8138
www.rpmministries.org, rpm.ministries@gmail.com
Equipping You to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth
Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate,

and Culturally-Informed Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation

The Heroes of Black Church History Seminar

The Heroes of Black Church History
Celebrate the Legacy of African American Christianity

A One Day Seminar Presented by Dr. Bob Kellemen

Do you long to learn from African American heroes of the faith

how God uses suffering to move His people to a place of healing hope?

Dr. Kellemen equips Christians of all races to be empowered by the

Heroes of Black Church history to minister God’s healing hope to one another.

Dr. Bob Kellemen

Bob is a nationally-known speaker, writer, consultant, educator, pastor, and counselor. He’s the author of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction, Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Sacred Friendships, and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. He has equipped thousands of lay people, pastors, and counselors as Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department (Capital Bible Seminary), as Director of the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network, and as Founder/CEO of RPM Ministries.

At the Seminar, Christians of All Races Will:

*Be empowered by the founding fathers of the African American church about how to be a godly male leader.

*Be equipped by the heroic sisters of the spirit of the African American church to be a powerful female spiritual friend.

*Be enriched by past African American husbands, wives, fathers, and mothers concerning how to nurture and enjoy godly living in the home.

*Be enlightened to apply proven ways to help people find healing hope in the midst of deep pain by identifying with past African American believers.

*Be enabled to minister more effectively in cross-cultural settings by uncovering the buried treasure of wisdom contained in the legacy of African American soul care and spiritual direction.

*Be encouraged to skillfully practice the historic soul care arts of sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding.

*Be enthused to build healing communities where Christians find courage and comfort in God and each other.

Endorsed by Pastor Tony Evans

“Dr. Kellemen’s work shows us how the pain experienced by people from the African American culture can be redeemed to give life to people from any race or culture. The captivating true stories and first-hand narratives have a therapeutic and healing quality. After you engage Beyond the Suffering, you will have a deeper understanding of how God forged character in people through their suffering and be able to apply many valuable insights to your personal life and future ministry.”

Heroes of Black Church History Seminar Schedule

8:15-8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45-8:55 Worship

8:55-9:00 Greeting and Prayer

9:00-10:30 Session One: So Great a Cloud of Witnesses: Following the Ancient Paths

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Session Two: Watered with Our Tears: Communal Comfort and Family Faithfulness

12:00-1:00 Lunch Fellowship Together

1:00-1:10 Worship

1:10-2:30 Session Three: The Old Ship of Zion: Uniting in Christ

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-4:00 Session Four: This Far by Faith: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy

To Host or Attend a Seminar, Contact:

RPM Ministries
PO Box 270, Crown Point, IN 46308, 219-662-8138

http://www.rpmministries.org/, rpm.ministries@gmail.com
Equipping You to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth
Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate,

and Culturally-informed Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation

Care Like Christ

Care Like Christ

I understand that you care deeply for people, but that you can find it frustrating to obtain equipping that empowers you to care like Christ.

That’s why RPM Ministries offers Changing Lives Seminars to equip and empower you to use the Bible accurately, powerfully, and lovingly in your personal relationships.

Here’s the information you need to be equipped and empowered at three upcoming Changing Lives Seminars. I’d love to see you and connect in person.

Upcoming RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminars

1. When: Saturday, September 26, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Community Evangelical Free Church, 4501 Franklin St., Harrisburg, PA 17111.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: To register online please visit: http://bit.ly/P6mlX. Click here for more information: http://bit.ly/p8bjc. To talk to a real live person contact Pastor John Heater at 717-545-1354.

2. When: Saturday, October 10, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Grace Baptist Church, 7210 Race Track Road, Bowie, MD 20715.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: Learn more at: http://bit.ly/lX5PG. To register contact Pastor Mark Tanious at 301-262-1767.

3. When: Saturday, October 31, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, 1615 Third Street, N.W., Washington DC.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: Contact the Church Office at 202-667-1833 to register. Ask for Minister Charles Traylor and the Changing Lives Seminar. Visit the church website at: http://bit.ly/N35Cd.

Note: If your church, para-church group, ministry, or school would like to host an RPM Seminar or would like to have Dr. Kellemen present for you, please contact us at: rpm.ministries@gmail.com.

Note: For more information about the Changing Lives Seminar please visit: http://bit.ly/o7TxX.

Changing Lives Seminars

RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar

Do you care deeply for people, but find it difficult to obtain equipping that empowers you to care like Christ?

Are you ready to learn the art of Christ Care?

*Learn How to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth

*Learn How to Care Like Christ

*Learn How to Use the Bible Accurately, Powerfully, and Lovingly in Your Personal Relationships

A One-Day Seminar Presented by Dr. Bob Kellemen

Bob is a nationally-known speaker, writer, consultant, educator, and counselor. He’s the author of Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Beyond the Suffering, Sacred Friendships, and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. He has equipped thousands of lay people, pastors, and counselors as Chairman of the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department (Capital Bible Seminary), as Director of the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network, and as Founder/CEO of RPM Ministries.

Learn Biblical Answers to Life's Seven Ultimate Questions

1. What is truth? Where do we find answers?

2. Who is God?

3. Who am I?

4. What went wrong? Why do I sin and suffer?

5. How do people change?

6. Where am I headed?

7. How can I help?

Be Equipped for One Another Ministry
as a Spiritual Friend, Biblical Counselor, and Soul Physician:

*Learn how to understand people biblically: Discover how God designed us to live, love, and relate.

*Learn how to diagnose problems scripturally: Uncover what went wrong—why do we do the things we do?

*Learn how to prescribe God’s solutions effectively: Apply Christ’s answers for our daily life problems.

*Learn how to weep with those who weep: Offer sustaining care for discouraged people—empathize with people.

*Learn how to give hope to the hurting: Offer healing comfort for suffering people—encourage people as you relate God’s truth to daily life.

*Learn how to be a dispenser of grace: Offer reconciling care-fronting for sinning people—enlighten people as you speak the truth in love.

*Learn how to disciple, coach, and mentor: Offer guiding counsel for growing people—empower people to tap into Christ’s resurrection power.

Changing Lives Seminar Schedule

8:30-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00-12:00 Morning Session with Two Breaks

How to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth:
Become a Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate,
and Culturally-Informed Soul Physician

Everyone talks about biblical counseling, but how do we make biblical counseling truly biblical? Learn how to use God’s Word accurately, powerfully, and lovingly. Be equipped to become an artful soul physician by developing a Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed biblical model of people helping, counseling, and one another ministry that values and applies the sufficiency, supremacy, authority, and relevancy of Scripture to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

12:00-1:00 Lunch Fellowship Together

1:00-4:00 Afternoon Session with Two Breaks

How to Care Like Christ:
Become an Empathizing, Encouraging, Enlightening,

and Empowering Spiritual Friend

Everyone wants to “do biblical counseling” and to “be a spiritual friend,” but what does it actually “look like” in practice? Learn how to use God’s Word to empathize, encourage, enlighten, and empower others. Be equipped to become a skillful spiritual friend by developing the biblical soul care and spiritual direction arts of sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding to care like Christ.

Contact Us:

To host or to attend an RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar contact us:

RPM Ministries
PO Box 270, Crown Point, IN 46308, 219-662-8138
www.rpmministries.org, rpm.ministries@gmail.com

Equipping You to Change Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth

Christ-Centered, Comprehensive, Compassionate, and Culturally-Informed Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation

Be Equipped

Be Equipped to Change Lives with

Christ’s Changeless Truth

I understand that you care deeply for people, but that you can find it frustrating to obtain equipping that empowers you to care like Christ.

That’s why I write, speak, and consult about Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed biblical counseling and spiritual formation that equips you to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

Here’s the information you need to be equipped and empowered at upcoming seminars, conferences, and speaking engagements. I’d love to see you and meet you in person.

1. When: Wednesday, September 15, 9 AM to Noon

*Where: At the American Association of Christian Counselors World Conference in Nashville.

*What: Pre-Conference Presentation: How to Develop a Theology and Methodology of Biblical Counseling

*Why: In one morning learn the seven truths that every spiritual friend, spiritual director, pastor, and biblical counselor must apply to change lives and care like Christ.

*How: Go here to register: http://bit.ly/povwo

2. When: Friday, September 18, 8:45-10:00 AM

*Where: At the American Association of Christian Counselors World Conference in Nashville.

*What: Biblical Counseling Track Presentation: How to Practice Comprehensive Biblical Counseling: Dreaming a Dozen Dreams

*Why: In 75 minutes learn the dozen components that will change how Christians practice biblical counseling in the next generation.

*How: Go here to register: http://bit.ly/1TEbg

*How: Go here to sign up: http://bit.ly/RO9T0

3. When: Wednesday, September 23, 2:00-4:00 PM

*Where: Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, IL

*What: Panel Discussion: Embracing Minority Impact in Higher Education

*Why: Hear frank discussion about how and why Evangelical higher education can more effectively equip students of diverse backgrounds and ethnicities for biblical ministry.

*How: Contact us at rpm.ministries@gmail.com for more information.

4. When: Saturday, September 26, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Community Evangelical Free Church, 4501 Franklin St., Harrisburg, PA 17111.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: See costs, benefits, details, and register online at: http://bit.ly/P6mlX. For more information contact Pastor John Heater at 717-545-1354.

5. When: Saturday, October 10, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Grace Baptist Church, 7210 Race Track Road, Bowie, MD 20715.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: Learn more at: http://bit.ly/lX5PG. To register contact Pastor Mark Tanious at 301-262-1767.

6. When: Friday, October 23, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM

*Where: North Park University and North Park Theological Seminary, 3225 West Foster Ave., Chicago, IL 60625, 773-244-6200.

*What: North Park University Student Diversity Leadership Conference. Presentation: Cultivating Christ-Centered TEAM Intercultural Competency

*Why: Learn and apply four central biblical competencies for relating interculturally.

*How: Go here to register: http://bit.ly/10Psrw. For the schedule, visit: http://bit.ly/19nqsb.

7. When: Saturday, October 31, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

*Where: Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, 1615 Third Street, N.W., Washington DC.

*What: RPM Ministries Changing Lives Seminar: How to Care Like Christ

*Why: In one day learn how to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically! Learn how to sustain, heal, reconcile, and guide one another to become more like Christ.

*How: Contact the Church Office at 202-667-1833 to register. Ask for Minister Charles Traylor and the Changing Lives Seminar. Visit the church website at: http://bit.ly/N35Cd.

*Note: If your church, para-church group, ministry, or school would like to host an RPM Seminar or would like to have Dr. Kellemen present for you, please contact us at: rpm.ministries@gmail.com.

What to Do After the Hug

Doc. K. Invites You to Learn . . .
What to Do After the Hug

April 4, 2009, from 8:00-4:30, at Emmanuel Temple Church (10005 Old Columbia Road, Suite N-165, Columbia, MD 21046) Dr. Kellemen and RPM Ministries will present the Changing Lives Seminar: What to Do After the Hug.

In one day, participants learn how to use the Bible accurately, powerfully, and lovingly in biblical counseling and spiritual friendship.

You will learn how to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth to become a comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed soul physician.

You will learn how to care like Christ to become an empathizing, encouraging, enlightening, and empowering spiritual friend.

Dr. Kellemen has summarized nearly 1,000 pages of material (from his first two books Soul Physicians and Spiritual Friends) into a forty-page manuscript, a twelve-page outline, and two creative, engaging PowerPoint presentations. Throughout the day, there will be ten interactive discussion times to apply the material to our lives and ministries.

Attend to learn how to equip others.. Attend to refresh your own equipping. Bring your people so they can be equipped and excited about one another ministry.

The cost is just $25, and includes the full-day seminar, a continental breakfast, a light lunch, and the seminar notes.

To register contact Judy Sheppard at 410-935-1821, or Marcia Williams at 410-312-5483, or by email at etca@emmanueltempleapostolic.org.

For a copy of the conference flier, email Doc. K. at: bob.kellemen@gmail.com

Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency

Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency:
A Christ-Centered TEAM Approach
Revelation 7:9-10

Many of you have asked to hear more about my presentation on intercultural (multicultural) ministry. Here's an outline.

Presentation Objectives

The primary goal of Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency: A Christ-Centered TEAM Approach is to equip participants to develop four championship TEAM skills that empower them to function effectively in our culturally diverse society. Participants will learn how to relate harmoniously by building bridges of understanding across diverse cultures. This seminar is based upon the biblical conviction that God in Christ is moving all of history toward an eternity where “a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people, and language” will stand before the Lamb in united worship (Revelation 7:9-10). Thus the eternal goal is to equip participants to relate interculturally now in light of their eternal future so that God is glorified and others are attracted to Christ by their love.

Student Learning Outcomes

After successful participation in Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency: A Christ-Centered TEAM Approach, participants will be able to implement the TEAM intercultural relational competencies of:

T: Taking another person's earthly perspctive through empathy and culturally-informed listening.

E: Engaging in bridge-building spiritual conversations through focusing on God's eternal perspective.

A: Abolishing barriers through forgiveness and reconciliation.

M: Mentoring interculturally competent disciples through envisioning, empowering, and equipping.

Resources

I have a five-page outline plus a 60-slide PowerPoint presentation. If you are interested in having me speak to your group, feel free to contact me.

God's Healing for Life's Losses

RPM Ministries is excited to announce their newest one-day conference:

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:

How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting

Experience engaging PowerPoint presentations, relevant biblical teaching,
personal healing, and equipping to minister to your hurting friends.

Presented by Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., LCPC

Bob is the Author of five books, including God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting (BMH Books, 2009); Chairman, Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship Department, Capital Bible Seminary; and Director of the Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation Network for the American Association of Christian Counselors.

Attend and You Will Learn How To:

*Apply to your life a four-stage biblical model of facing life’s losses with courageous honesty.
*Apply to your life a four-stage biblical model of finding healing hope by finding God.
*Apply proven biblical principles to help hurting people to move through the biblical stages of hurting and grieving: candor, complaint, cry, and comfort.
*Apply proven biblical principles to help hurting people to move through the biblical stages of hope and growth: waiting, wailing, weaving, and worshipping.
*Practice skillfully the biblical counseling and soul care arts of sustaining and healing.
*Build healing communities where Christians find courage and comfort in God and each other.

Comprehensive, Compassionate, Culturally-Informed
Biblical Grief Counseling

Students of human grief have developed various models of typical grief responses. However, these models fail to assess whether the responses correspond to God’s process for hurting (grieving) and hoping (growing). Dr. Bob Kellemen, in God’s Healing for Life’s Losses, equips you to apply eight scriptural stages in your response to life’s losses—helping you to find hope when you’re hurting. Bob will also empower you to minister healing hope to others so that they can face suffering face-to-face with God.

Attend the God’s Healing for Life’s Losses Seminar To:

*Experience personal healing and biblical hope.
*Encounter God in the midst of your suffering.
*Empathize with hurting people more compassionately.
*Encourage suffering people more competently.
*Empower your congregation to become a “hospital for the hurting.”

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses Seminar Schedule

8:00-8:45--Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45-8:55--Praise and Worship
8:55-9:00--Greeting and Prayer
9:00-10:30--Session One: Launching the Journey of Grief: Honesty with Yourself and with God—Candor and Complaint
10:30-10:45--Break
10:45-12:00--Session Two: Inviting God to Join Your Journey: Finding God Even When You Can’t Find Answers—Cry and Comfort
12:00-1:00--Lunch Provided
1:00-1:15--Praise and Worship
1:15-2:30--Session Three: Deepening Your Journey During the Dark Night of the Soul: On the Road to Hope—Waiting and Wailing
2:30-2:45--Break
2:45-4:00--Session Four: Traveling with God on the Journey of Faith: Joining the Larger Story—Weaving and Worshipping
4:00--Closing Benediction
4:00-4:30--Optional Book Signing

RPM Ministries, www.rpmministries.org, rpm.ministries@gmail.com
PO Box 270, Crown Point, IN 46308, 219-662-8138
Changing Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth
Comprehensive, Compassionate, Culturally-informed
Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Formation