Drug & Alcohol Counselor Certification

FINAL REGULATIONS GO WELL FOR US!

May 21, 2005

May 19, 2005 - For years we have been hearing about the
discussions that have taken place between the older secular
certification organizations wondering about what the final
outcome would be and how it would effect Biblical
Christians. Often times, along the way, there have been
suggestions made for regulations and legislation that would
effectively cut Christian Professionals, who are aware of
the deceptions of humanism and believe in the sufficiency
of scripture, out of the professional and public arena.
Every year, there still are continued efforts to pass
legislation that would limit Christian counseling by
allowing it to take place only behind the confines Church
walls.

But the good news for us today is that somebody has been
watching out for us and God has been good to us. As of
now, under the new regulations, in the State of California,
every certification organization can openly teach
professional Biblical counseling without being told that
they can not use scripture. So long as we choose scripture
that speaks to the core competencies outlined in the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's
Technical Assistance Publication 21, no one can legally or
morally fault us. Leaning upon the sufficiency of
scripture, good common sense, and remaining respectful of
the well-defined regulatory mandates (so long as they don't
oppose Scripture, which at present they do not do), we are
free to train biblically to become certified professionals.

In this month’s issue we want to talk about how God is
moving and raising up institutes not only in California but
on the east coast and Canada as well.

ACADC INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Rev. Dr. C. Phillip Johnson, Ph.D., Director of the Johnson
Center and the pastor of a local church in Washington,
D.C., has joined our association and will be the
administrator of our Washington, D.C. ACADC Institute. Dr.
Johnson is a pastor and a psychologist who understands the
true psychology that is effective to set people free from
their addictions and bondages, is not found in the
conflicting theories of man, but in God’s inspired Word.
Dr. Johnson will also be our dissertation advisor to all
students who are working on a doctorate through our
institute.

ACADC INSTITUTE, CITY OF ORANGE & HUNTINGTON BEACH

Rev. Robert Tucker, M.A., CDAAC who has served this year as
vice president of ACADC, has begun his first institute in
the city of Orange in Orange County. This class takes
place from 3 to 6 every Saturday at Zion Christian Center.
He will also be starting a second institute in Huntington
Beach. The building in which the class will be taught has
already been secured and final negotiations are taking
place. Not only will Pastor Tucker be teaching courses to
counselors at these sites, but he will be doing counseling
through these sites as well while raising up a cadre of
equipped and qualified counselors who go through his
training program.

ACADC INSTITUTE, CANADA

Coriennia Doering-Caswell, The administrator of ACADC
CANADA in Saskatchewan is going through her wine press in
great style. It so often seems to be that those people who
God uses to be squeezed by the more powerful spiritual
adversaries, God uses for the more powerful work to further
HIS Kingdom on earth. Coriennia has been having her bouts
with her province’s authoritarian (not authoritative)
rulers and modern day Pharisees and legalists who do not
have the spiritual discernment to have a clue about God’s
purpose and calling upon her life. They do not know God
because in their arrogance they think they are HIM. But
especially they do not know that God put the same spirit in
her that the prophet Jeremiah had. It burned in his very
bones like a consuming fire that could not be extinguished
no matter how many times those powerful people motivated by
powers, principalities and rulers of darkess in high places
tried to destroy him and his reputation. Gods word, which
does not come back void, made it’s mark in the land. We
will see God, through the faithful and longsuffering
obedience of HIS maidservant Coriennia bear much fruit in a
land that needs her ministry desperately. Please keep her
in your prayers.

ACADC INSTITUTE SAN DIEGO

Rev. James Profit, MFC, CSACI the administrator of the
ACADC Institute San Diego is our first institute to
graduate Marriage & Family Counselors and certify them with
the professional MFC designation which allows them to
practice marriage & family counseling under the authority
of the Association of Christian Alcohol & Drug Counselors.