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Wayne A. Mack

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Wayne is a graduate of Wheaton College (BA); the Philadelphia Seminary (MDiv, Greek); the Westminster Theological Seminary (D.Min - Research project on marriage and family counseling). • He has also been involved extensive graduate studies in various subjects at several graduate schools (psychology at LaSalle University; counseling, theology and church history at Eastern Baptist Seminar; theology and Bible subjects at Wheaton graduate school and Trinity Evangelical Seminary). FAMILY • Wayne has been married to his wife, Carol, since 1957. They have four adult children and 21 grandchildren. • From 1958 to 1976 Wayne served as a pastor in local churches. From 1976 to 2004 he taught college and graduate school courses in biblical counseling at The Master's College and Seminary; Westminster Theological Seminary, Biblical Seminary and the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation. • During this time, Wayne conducted seminars and conferences all over our country and around the world. He has also functioned as the Director of a Counseling Center and Training School and done extensive counseling. • For most of this period of time (1976 to the present) Wayne has been an elder in a church, formerly in Grace Community Church where he also served as a pastor of one of the fellowship groups, and more recently in Grace Fellowship Church of the Lehigh Valley in PA where his son Joshua was pastor. In January 2006 he and Carol moved to Pretoria, South Africa, where he resides in the Faerie Glen section, so that Wayne could teach biblical counseling to pastors and aspiring pastors in the region. Since his arrival in 2006 Wayne has taught a twoyear program in Biblical Counseling to students from all over South Africa, Zambia, Namibia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Germany and Brazil. Wayne serves as a pastor/elder along with his son-in-law Sybrand DeSwardt at Lynnwood Baptist Church. Presently he also teaches at the Strengthening Ministries Training Institute that is a ministry of Lynnwood Baptist Church. SMTI provides biblical counseling training for pastors and church leaders and people from many parts of southern Africa. He also has taught biblical counseling classes at Mukhanyo Theological College located in the Mpulalanga Province of South Africa, • In 1992 Wayne planned and supervised the development of the MA program in biblical counseling in which presently more than 200 students are enrolled at The Master’s College in Santa Clarita, California, USA. • Wayne is a member of the Academy of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. Since its inception 40 years ago, he has served as an executive board member and in 2006 was inducted into the highest level of this counselor certifying organization as a Member of the Academy. Wayne has spoken regularly at NANC's annual national conference. • Wayne has served on the board of FIRE (Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals) and on the Board of Directors of Publicaciones Faro de Gracia. He is now on the board of the Sola 5 Association of Churches and also the Executive Director of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors of Africa. • Through Strengthening Ministries International, he seeks to strengthen churches and Christians by developing and distributing biblically based practical books, audio and video tapes on counseling, theological and Christian living subjects. PUBLICATIONS • Wayne has written 24 books including Strengthening Your Marriage; Your Family God's Way; Preparing for Marriage God's Way; Sweethearts for A Lifetime; Homework Manual for Biblical Living, Volumes 1 and 2 and 3; Life in the Father's House; An Introduction to Biblical Counseling (with John MacArthur); Twin Pillars of the Christian Life; The Role of Women in the Church; God's Solutions to Life's Problems; The Fear Factor; Down But Not Out; Out of the Blues; Anger and Stress Management God's Way; True Success and How to Attain It; To Be or Not To Be a Church Member: That is the Question; Humility: A Forgotten Virtue; A Fight to the Death; Reaching the Ear of God; Maximum Impact; In Laws: Married with Parents; The Biblical Concept of Church Discipline; To God Be The Glory; You Can Overcome Interpersonal Problems; How to Overcome Despondency. Wayne has also contributed chapters to the book The Sufficiency of Scripture and several other books including a Men’s Counseling Men book published by Harvest house Publishers. • Wayne has produced numerous audio and video tapes on various subjects. Included among the audio and video tapes on various subjects are many entire counseling courses and Christian Living Courses. All of these are available and are distributed by www.noutheticmedia.com.
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