Biblical Counseling at URC

Over the weekend the Biblical Counseling Community interviewed Pat Quinn, our Director of Counseling Ministries, about the role of biblical counseling at University Reformed Church.

Pat has been at the church for a long time. He started part time in this position a couple years ago and just came on full time this fall. I'm very thankful for his friendship and his ministry. Here's a little more about Pat from the interview:

I became a Christian in 1972 and soon began to minister the Word of God in various 'venues:' music/worship ministry, teaching Bible for 30 years at a Christian school, serving as a teacher and elder at URC, discipling and counseling. I was initially introduced to biblical counseling through the ministry of David Powlison—especially his book Seeing With New Eyes.  This had a big effect on my own life and I began doing more counseling at the Christian school and at church in the mid 2000′s. In 2009, I began working part-time at URC as Director of Counseling and came on full-time this September. After devouring just about all the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation resources for a few years, I began taking distance education courses from CCEF in 2008. I have my Introduction to Biblical Counseling certificate from them and have audited two more courses. Although I feel I am still a novice, I have seen the Lord work in both counseling and training and am excited to continue to learn and grow in this vital gospel work.

Besides being a great guitar player, Bible teacher, and counselor, Pat's claim to fame is that he went to high school with Bill Murray.

You can read the whole interview here.