KINGDOM ACADEMY

Course:

Salvation

Assignment No:

Lecturer:

Madam Sharon Somi

Assignment topic:

Counselling Assignment

Date:

24th July 2012

Student No:

S/KA1001/JG 12

Submitted under the Salvation course in partial fulfilment of the Diploma in Christian/Kingdom Ministries

Case Study I: The counsellee is a forty-year old father of two teenage girls. He is separated from their mother after 13 years of marriage, though they are still legally married. He has come to the ministry offices seeking help in relating with his daughters aged 18 and 15, both of whom live with their mother.

He states that the circumstances leading to the separation were that he drank excessively, but since accepting Christ as His Lord and saviour, his life is now stable. He feels that his wife has poisoned the girls towards him. He thinks she is also in turn influenced by her pastor whom he says was once his junior at work, and therefore feels he, the pastor, is not objective.

He says that he does not want his wife back as his life is now more peaceful without her, but wants to have an ordinary relationship with his daughters especially since they are now older and more mature. His attempts to speak to his girls are not very successful as they are suspicious of him; they dislike the lower income neighbourhood he lives in, and attend a different church than him (where everybody drives).

He feels that if someone could prevail on his wife (and the pastor who used to be his junior) then he would have a chance with his daughters.

Please advice.

Case study 2: Toma is a 17 year-old boy who has been brought up in a Christian home. The youngest of four children, he is now in a city boarding school as his parents moved upcountry to attend to their farm. His siblings are all working and living independently. Toma used to attend the the church with his parents, but stopped coming when they moved upcountry.

Recently he sought an appointment with the youth pastor saying that he needed to see him urgently. Upon hearing Tomas story, the youth pastor has sought your help. Apparently, Toma was approached at school by some boys whom he admired to join them after prep one night. He found them talking in hushed tones about the leader. He, feeling privileged to join this group of elite students enquired of them who the leader. He was told he would get to meet with him on the school exeat that weekend; in the meantime he was give something that looked like a cigarette to have a puff. Up to that point, Toma did not smoke, but felt that if these boys felt it was OK then who was he to argue. After all the school captain was among them.

That weekend they met with the leader at a local cinema hall, where he proceeded to tell them about how they could gain secret knowledge and power if they learned to chant some things which he proceeded to demonstrate. This leader was very well dressed with a lot of gold jewellery, so Toma was convinced that what he was telling them would work. Ever since, Toma has been chanting as instructed, three times per day facing the east (source of all beginnings). However he feels uneasy all the time, and senses that he is being watched and that he is never alone. He says nowadays he is unable to read the bible or to pray. He also gets nightmares, and a strange rash has appeared in his armpit.

Please advice.

Case Study 3: Genevieve is a 25 year-old tailor engaged to be married to a man she was introduced to by her mother. He owns three shops that sell tailored clothing and her mother is convinced that Genevieve will be happy and fulfilled in this union.

However, Genevieve herself is not persuaded. First she is in love with the choirmaster at her church, and though he has never said anything, she is convinced that he likes her because she is always chosen to sing solos. He also smiles at her when he is conducting the choir. Secondly, this man her mother wants her to marry is an SDA, and Genevieve has heard that if you marry someone from that church, you have to convert automatically. Thirdly, this man is in his fifties and has a daughter the same age as Genevieve; in fact they used to go to nursery school together.

Genevieve is not happy, but does not want to disappoint her mother. Please advice.