How To Do Our Ministry Has Changed

This recent pandemic caused us to think about how we do our ministry. The Interfaith Counseling Center has a building. The COVID pandemic caused us to 'move' out of our facility for our ministry. For us that meant Teletherapy. As a result of these past three years of COVID as well as a new way of thinking, i.e., outside the familiar ‘box,’ we now have “clients” not only in Lexington and central Kentucky but, also, throughout Kentucky, for example Morehead, Somerset, Hopkinsville, Louisville, etc. In addition, we have had clients who have moved and asked if they could continue so we also have clients who live in North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, Florida, and Texas. Because of international work with missionaries, we also have clients in Europe and Africa. At least one half of our clients now use teletherapy. With apologies to the movie, “Field of Dreams,” it is no longer true that if you build it or program it, they will come. In another movie, “The Graduate,” Mr. McGuire was suggesting to Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman, that the future of making money and a career was in the plastic industry. I think Mr. McGuire was say that today, i.e., 2022 and beyond, the future is through cyberspace. I believe the future of any ministry will involve significant cyberspace. I am grateful that God has pushed us at the Interfaith Counseling Center into a new way of thinking (which was neither easy, pleasant nor comfortable) and thereby is using us to help fulfill the Great Commission of sharing His Gospel to the furthermost parts of the world. Who could have imagined five years ago?