{"id":131,"date":"2019-04-22T16:52:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T21:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/?p=131"},"modified":"2019-04-22T17:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T22:03:19","slug":"equipping-biblical-counselors-internationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/equipping-biblical-counselors-internationally\/","title":{"rendered":"Equipping Biblical Counselors Internationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Alexandre Sacha Mendes is a<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/master-of-divinity\">Faith Bible Seminary M.Div.<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">grad (2010) who recently earned his <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-100\" src=\"https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20190213123744\/FBS-6-Sacha-Mendes-Small-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20190213123744\/FBS-6-Sacha-Mendes-Small-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20190213123744\/FBS-6-Sacha-Mendes-Small.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>D.Min. in Expository Preaching from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Pastor Sacha\u2019s D.Min. project focused on equipping Brazilian pastors to preach Christ from the Proverbs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Mendes was part of FBS\u2019 first M.Div. cohort (2007-2010). Upon graduation from FBS, Sacha was hired as an Associate Pastor at Maranatha Baptist Church in S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, Brazil. On February 24, 2019, Pastor Mendes was installed as Sr. Pastor at this church where he has served for nearly a decade.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSacha\u201d as he likes to be called, recently joined Curtis Solomon, the Executive Director of the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/\">Biblical Counseling Coalition<\/a>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">in a video interview as part of the BCC\u2019s <em>15:14<\/em> interview series. Sacha is the first international member of the Board of Directors for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. He lives\u00a0in San Jose Dos Compos, Brazil,\u00a0where he\u00a0serves as\u00a0one of the pastors of Maranatha Baptist Church. Additionally, Sacha leads the<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/abcb.org.br\/\">Brazilian Association of Biblical Counselors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Watch the video interview and learn more about how God is using Dr. Mendes in equipping biblical counselors internationally.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/275279212\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/275279212<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alexandre Sacha Mendes is a Faith Bible Seminary M.Div. grad (2010) who recently earned his D.Min. in Expository Preaching from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Pastor Sacha\u2019s D.Min. project focused on equipping Brazilian pastors to preach Christ from the Proverbs. Dr. Mendes was part of FBS\u2019 first M.Div. cohort (2007-2010). Upon graduation from FBS, Sacha&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/equipping-biblical-counselors-internationally\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26602],"tags":[244,26602,29550],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Equipping Biblical Counselors Internationally - Faith Bible Seminary Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/equipping-biblical-counselors-internationally\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Equipping Biblical Counselors Internationally - Faith Bible Seminary Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Alexandre Sacha Mendes is a Faith Bible Seminary M.Div. grad (2010) who recently earned his D.Min. in Expository Preaching from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. 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