Equipping families to heal the nations.
Restoring, training, mobilising and multiplying family therapists to serve God for the healing and enrichment of the family in
1. The purpose of the Australian Institute of Family Counselling (AIFC) is to implement the vision through excellence in Christian family counselling training in
2. Its purpose is to obey the command of Jesus Christ to "Go and make disciples of all the nations" (Matthew 28:19).
3. Its purpose involves both prevention and therapy. Prevention means demonstrating and teaching God's principles of marriage and family, before breakdown occurs. Family therapy occurs when breakdown has occurred and is a ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18-20). These aspects of the training involve:
o teaching of biblical principles of marriage and family, so people will no longer call evil good, or good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter (Isaiah 5:20);
o teaching on family systems - on how families operate - the functional and the dysfunctional; specialised training in counselling and family therapy, in view of the restoration of broken and hurting individuals and families; and
o teaching and helping families to become 'World Christians' and be involved in the fulfilment of the Great Commission of making disciples of all the nations.
4. Its purpose is to offer professional counselling training at a minimal cost to the Christian community.
5. The accredited training is based on middle-of-the-road, mainstream counselling drawing from theological, psychological and spiritual perspectives.
6. Its purpose is to multiply the vision throughout