Margaret Shaw, Laity Care Leader – Mobile, AL

Learning to serve God as a Laity Care Leader is an incredible privilege and exciting beyond words. It’s getting to witness God’s transforming power through His Word with my own eyes!

“I discovered my God given talents as a teacher and encourager at the LCC. It is a great blessing for a Christian to know what their talents are and then have the opportunity that the LCC creates to apply them in service as my gift back to God.”

Having a degree in Psychology and also working in the secular field I noticed that my clients were continuing to deal with the same issues in life with no real remedy. It was frustrating for both them and me. Our church offered me the opportunity to train as a laity counselor and I realized that…

I was at wits end with my 14 year old son and tried secular and other counselors but was getting nowhere. He was on a hopeless, downward spiral. I took him to the Laity Care Center, where he was counseled, accepted Christ into his life, was discipled, loved, and prayed for. Now he’s literally a…

“As a pastor I have long had the conviction that the church IS THE PLACE for counseling; but we have allowed the secular world to take away that role from us and have even convinced ourselves that we are not qualified to counsel! In reality it is the exact opposite! God’s people using GOD’S WORD…

To see hurting people’s lives changed by words of truth from God lifts my spirit and encourages me in my walk of faith I’ve witnessed the Holy Spirit’s control at the LCC as He orchestrates and changes appointments so that the appropriate counselor meets with the appropriate counselee in God’s appointed time. Glory, honor and…