STATEMENT OF FAITH

CROSSTIES COUNSELING MINISTRIES, INC.

CrossTies Counseling Ministries, Inc. acknowledges and accepts all canonical books of the Old and New Testament as the revealed Word of God, verbally inspired, and acknowledge and accept all the confessional writings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church contained in the Book of Concord of the year 1580 to be the true and genuine exposition of the doctrines of the Bible. These confessional writings are the three ecumenical creeds (Apostles', Nicene, Athanasian), the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, The Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles, Luther's Large and Small Catechisms and the Formula of Concord.

VISION STATEMENT

CROSSTIES COUNSELING MINISTRIES, INC.

"We will be a major educational and training resource for the Lutheran churches of the greater Houston area by assisting and equipping them to be loving Christian centers of spiritual and emotional wholeness and health for themselves and the people they touch in their communities."

MISSION STATEMENT

CROSSTIES COUNSELING MINISTRIES, INC. 

"Guided by the Holy Spirit, our mission is to provide professionally led training and a wide variety of materials to equip pastors, elders and other leaders in the Lutheran Churches of our area to use properly all the resources available in the Holy Scriptures, the Lutheran Confessions and modern psychological studies so that their churches may be loving Christian centers of spiritual and emotional wholeness and health."