2027 Biblical Counseling Training Conference Will Equip Disciple-Makers With Scripture

The 2027 Faith Biblical Counseling Training Conference is scheduled for February 7–12 in Lafayette, Indiana, with both in-person and virtual participation designed to serve Christians from across the United States. Faith Church’s official conference site describes the week as an opportunity to hear biblical counseling leaders share the Word of Truth and demonstrate how to minister that truth with grace, compassion, kindness, mercy, and love. The national event expects interaction among more than 1,500 counselors and offers seven intensive tracks so attendees can enter at an appropriate level of experience. Track 1 provides foundational training in personal ministry, the sufficiency of Scripture, spiritual growth, the heart, biblical communication, marriage roles, anger, depression, suffering, forgiveness, parenting, worry, guilt, repentance, and care for people facing medical or psychological diagnoses. Additional tracks build intermediate and advanced counseling skill, provide new ongoing training for experienced counselors, prepare candidates for Association of Certified Biblical Counselors exams, address topics relevant to counseling women, and offer concentrated instruction in marriage and reconciliation. The published schedule begins with registration and welcome sessions on Sunday, February 7, continues through daily teaching, case observation, worship, fellowship, and question-and-answer opportunities, and concludes Friday, February 12. In-person participants will gather at Faith Church East, 5526 State Road 26 East in Lafayette, while virtual options extend the training to churches and ministry workers who cannot travel. Registration includes electronic student notes and 90 days of virtual access to the sessions in the selected track, giving participants time to review dense material after the conference. The Biblical Counseling Coalition’s event listing, published October 26, 2026, identifies the gathering as an in-person and virtual national training conference and confirms Faith Church as the organizer.

This conference is best suited to pastors, elders, biblical counselors, counseling-center staff, women’s ministry leaders, small-group leaders, marriage mentors, and mature church members who regularly walk with people through suffering and change. Its value is not limited to professionals. The event’s foundational emphasis treats personal ministry as part of ordinary Christian discipleship, asking how believers can listen carefully, offer biblical hope, understand the heart, give wise instruction, and assign practical steps without becoming cold or formulaic. Churches considering a team approach may benefit from sending people to different tracks and planning a structured debrief afterward. A newer care volunteer could attend foundational training while an experienced counselor pursues advanced or ongoing instruction, a certification candidate works through exam preparation, and a marriage-ministry leader studies reconciliation. Before registering, participants should read the descriptions and prerequisites carefully because each person selects one track, and several advanced tracks assume previous foundational training or active counseling experience. Virtual attendees should confirm the delivery details for their track, since some sessions are live-streamed while other track content may be prerecorded. In-person attendees should also plan for a full six-day schedule beginning Sunday afternoon and continuing through Friday morning. A practical church preparation plan would include identifying the counseling needs most often encountered locally, choosing the track that addresses those needs, arranging pastoral accountability for how material will be used, and scheduling follow-up practice rather than allowing notes to remain on a shelf. The 90-day recording window can support that process through team review sessions. The larger reason to attend is not to collect techniques or credentials; it is to become a more faithful disciple and disciple-maker who ministers Scripture with humility, theological care, compassion, and patience. Used responsibly, the conference can help congregations strengthen their culture of one-another ministry while recognizing when complex situations require medical, legal, safeguarding, or other specialized assistance alongside pastoral care.