Vision
Equipping the local church with care training resources for addressing mental health needs in our communities.
Self-care, Community care & Pastoral care.
Biblical meaning of EDIFY - "Oikodome"
‘The act of one who promotes another’s growth in Christian wisdom, piety and holiness.’
Edify
EDIFY is an organization, established by Madz Deyzel in 2019, founder of Grace Counselling, that seeks to partner with local churches in order to offer hope to communities struggling with mental health needs. Madz has a BA Hons degree in Theology & Counselling through Brunel University UK & London School of Theology
A Missional Model
EDIFY is built on a Missional Model Approach to pastoral care & counselling that God envision Madz with in 2009.

Community Needs:
Communities turn to their local churches for support when they are in a spiritual and emotional crisis.
Church Impact:
Churches want to impact their local communities’ needs however, they often miss connecting in the emotional crisis due to a lack of counselling resources.
Counselling Resource:
The resource is twofold.
Firstly, it empowers mature volunteer believers with pastoral care skills, thus alleviating the pressure off of pastors, who often find themselves overwhelmed with the need.
Secondly, it more effectively serves the local community by being a message of hope to those in an emotional crisis.
Madz applied this approach to Grace Counselling, a ministry she started at Grace Family Church in Durban SA in 2007, they now have over 100 volunteers lay counsellors serving the local community of Durban.
Imagine the impact if every church invested in some level of pastoral care resources in order to better serve the needs of those hurting around them.
This is the drive behind EDIFY
CARE

Madz has developed a number of CARE courses to aid help grow in self-awareness and empower them with tools for owning their mental health.

Level 1
Self Care
Madz has developed a number of self-care courses designed specifically to give people tools to grow self-awareness and change destructive cycles whilst laying solid spiritual identity foundations in Christ.
Courses such as:
The Wholeness Course
Identity Foundations
Healing the Wounded Inner Child
Grief Care
Medication & Mental Health
Your Mind Matters
Blended Families
Into Me You See
EQ 4 Kidz
Jeremiah 17:14 “God, pick up the pieces. Put me back together again.” MSG

Level 2
Community Care
Small group & ministry leaders are at the forefront of people’s stories, yet most often they feel completely ill-equipped for effective discipleship conversations, and find themselves getting stuck in peoples stories.
Therefore Madz developed Coffee Cup Convo – Skills for Effective Conversations is an amazing discipleship training resource for equipping those who have a heart for discipleship. It is based on the parable of the Wise Man who built his house on a rock.
The first half of the training uses the components of “the storm, the house and our foundations” as an analogy for life and the choices we make. The second half covers basic processing skills, empowering you on how to get the most out of a conversation over a coffee.

Level 3
Pastoral Care
Formal pastoral care ministries are incredible opportunities for mature volunteers to walk advance discipleship journies with others.
Madz has developed a biblical framework specifically for pastoral lay carers called The Wholeness Model. It it a navigation tool to help them work through the complexities of peoples stories whist helping them process their thoughts according t truth and point them back to a right relationship with God.
The Wholeness Counselling Skills Course to equip your team with some practical tools to aid them with pastoral care.
NOTE: This training does NOT qualify you to set up your own private practice.
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