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Nader Sahyouni

X. Nader Sahyouni is a licensed clinical professional counselor and a spiritual director with a Doctor of Ministry in Spiritual Formation. He regularly speaks at retreats and conferences on the intersection of psychotherapy, spiritual formation, and brain science. He is the author of “Anxiety Transformed: Prayer that Brings Enduring Change,” as well as “The Three A’s Anxiety” prayer workbook. Nader lectures annually at North Park Theological Seminary’s Center for Spiritual Direction. He also volunteers as Asst. Director of Spiritual Foundations for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

Cultivating Intimacy with God Together (Ministry Playbook)

God also designed us to grow closer to him through community! This course will help equip you to lead others together into beautifully intimate moments with God.

Evangelism Learning Plan

Are you interesting in developing your evangelism skills? Use this Learning Growth Plan individually or with a community to learn skills and grow in confidence as you share the good news of Jesus with others.

Meeting Jesus in Scripture on Retreat

A quick resource for engaging Scripture on a retreat day.

2022 Retreat Guides

Collection of retreated guides produced in 2022.

God and the Patient Experience Bible Study

These Bible studies connect the patient experience with the Triune God. The same Father God who sustained the Apostle Paul lives today. Jesus sees each person living with physical ailment or disability as an individual, not an annoyance. He sees their true need. The Holy Spirit speaks truth to God’s children when they don’t even know how to pray. God in all his fullness desires to bring hope, healing, and redemption to all.

Reflections on the Journey in the Second Half of Life

In this article, veteran staff member Doug Stewart explores the changes that occurred in his relationship with the Lord in his midlife years. He discusses spiritual disciplines that seemed to dry up and other new ones that began to refresh his inner world.

Discipling Evangelistically

This resource is designed for people who are wanting to find ways to introduce evangelism values and culture into their chapters without overhauling all of their processes and structures. It gives recommendations for each major structure in three categories (structural habit to adopt, resource to use, spiritual discipline to practice).

Alice Brown-Collins

Alice R. Brown-Collins, Ph.D., ordained Minister, was the Associate Director, National Intercessory Prayer, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Presently, she is a spiritual director and pastor at New Hope Christian Ministries, with her husband, Rev. Boris Collins. She has been coordinator of the prayer warriors and women’s ministries, a member of the missions’ board, and a teacher for the discipleship classes.  

Dr. Brown-Collins has a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder and has been a former professor at several universities. As a social psychologist, she is a lecturer and teacher, conducting numerous seminars and workshops on families, married couples, evangelism and missions, discipleship, college ministries, multiethnicity, race relations, and women. In addition, she has served internationally in Ghana, Guyana, Kenya, and Australia. 

Dr. Brown-Collins is the editor of a recently published book, Soul Care: A Devotional for Black Educators.

Dr. Brown-Collins is the spouse of Rev. Boris E. Collins, and they have two children; Jamal and Kateri; a daughter-in-law, Marisha as well as two grandsons, Jake and Shamar.
 

The Faculty Gatherings Toolkit

This toolkit provides everything needed to gather faculty/administrators/staff to launch a community of faculty following Jesus together on campus including a guide and template for hosting a first faculty gathering, and resources for further gatherings.