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Counseling services discontinued in Seguin Guadalupe Valley Christian Counseling Center closes doors Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
Cheering on the newest batch of Girl Scouts?
Local girls are invited to stop by the Meeting House tonight for a special Cheerleading Fun with Girl Scouts event. Girls are invited to learn about Girl Scouts, meet new friends and learn cheers from the Seguin High School Cheerleaders. The event will be held today from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The Meeting House is located at 216 E. Humphreys St.
Helping you find the right house to call HOME. Gerardo Lopez 830-491-4295
(Seguin) – After almost 30 years of serving area residents, the Guadalupe Valley Christian Counseling Center (GVCCC) has closed its doors. News of the Christian based non-profit’s decision to end affordable counseling services was recently announced to the community. Explaining more behind the decision is Pastor Marcus Bigott of Emanuel’s Lutheran Church. Bigott, who serves as the board chairman for the organization, says the decision was not easy and agrees with the rest of the board members that it brings a level of grief to everyone. “It was something that we had been watching for a while. COVID really took a toll on so many organizations as folks tried to figure out how to be who they needed to be to survive but also to continue the work that they are
doing. We fore started in 1996 by a wonderful group of folks who saw the need to form a partnership and program that was no longer being filled by what was then called Lutheran Social Services and so the Christian Counseling Center was born out of that need. But indeed, following COVID, we continued to struggle with how we continue to meet the mental health needs of our community in a sustainable way and that was just not something that we could figure out in our current model of doing ministry and of doing work. And so, as the board looked at it finances and looked at the ways in which we were trying to operate, we realized that we needed to step back and strategically rethink how we were doing this and what we were going to do going forward because what we were doing is not sustainable,” said Bigott. Counseling, pg. 3