A partner you can trust to care for the people you love.
The BCC Care Network strengthens your church’s care with trusted counselors who provide biblical help and hope alongside your local church. Through our Intentional Care Pathway, we equip your church to grow stronger in caring for people from within.
Two ways to partner — jump to whichever fits
A Care Partner is an individual who walks with someone through a counseling season.
A Network Partner is a church or organization that establishes an ongoing relationship with BCC.
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What happens if a church lacks an intentional care pathway?
You already know what this costs.
People fall through the cracks
Someone asked for help in March. It’s August. Nobody is sure who followed up, or whether anyone did.
You refer out and never hear back
You sent someone to a counselor and learned nothing after. No plan for aftercare, no direction for your staff, no clear path to stay involved.
Willing leaders burn out
The deacon who took on the marriage in crisis hasn’t offered to help since. Good people get handed weight they haven’t been equipped to carry.
Pastors are often the last to feel this, and then they feel it all at once. Most start out certain they can carry the counseling themselves — and they can, for a while. Then a second case arrives. Then a third.
Counseling doesn’t scale the way preaching does.
Every situation you take on is capacity you no longer have for the next person who needs you. The bandwidth that felt sufficient in January is gone by spring — not because anyone stopped caring, but because care is nobody’s only job.
Ask most church leaders and they’ll put it more simply: we just haven’t been able to build a culture where our church really cares for one another. It’s said with real regret — and almost always followed by not for lack of trying. A trusted partner with a clear pathway can help your church make real progress.
Counseling should support the church, not replace it.
The Intentional Care Pathway
Effective care needs three things. Most churches have one or two. The Care Network helps you build all three, starting wherever you are.
Who your people would see
Counselors your church can know and trust.
Our counselors hold master’s degrees or higher in counseling and theology, and many hold national biblical counseling certifications. Network Partner churches are assigned a designated counselor who coordinates with your leaders — with the rest of our team available when someone needs a different fit.
Degrees from Westminster, Southern, Masters, Trinity, Moody, Liberty, and other graduate schools and seminaries. Four offices across Chicagoland, plus secure video telehealth.
Where to begin
Two Ways to Partner with the BCC Care Network
One is a person. One is a church. Most churches end up with both.
Care Partner
A Care Partner is one person — a pastor, elder, deacon, group leader, or trusted friend — who walks alongside someone receiving counseling at BCC, so their care stays connected to the life of the church.
- Referral partnership with BCC counseling centers
- Care articles and practical tools from BCC
- Invitations to Care Network trainings and webinars
- A one-time courtesy discount code for an urgent need
- A place in the BCC Cares Training Community, with free and low-cost training
- Someone at BCC to ask when you’re unsure what to do next
How it works
- Complete a short form
- Complete a brief online orientation
- Start walking alongside someone
About 10 minutes, start to finish. You don’t need a churchwide decision to start.
Free. There is no cost to be a Care Partner. We simply want everyone we counsel to have someone from their own church walking with them — and a church can have as many as it needs. We also offer a short online training course to help you develop in biblical care and counseling.
Network Partner
Network Partners give their leaders a plan for what happens next. When a situation exceeds what your team can carry, there is already a trusted counselor, a clear way to refer, and a partnership your church can point to by name.
- Official Network Partner status, with a promotional postcard and media kit for your church
- A designated BCC counselor who knows your church
- Reduced rate of $75/session (standard $90)
- Priority scheduling — goal of same-week appointments
- Eligibility for the Shared Care Program and cost-sharing
How it works
- Tell us about your church
- Have a 20-minute conversation
- Choose your support level
- Set up the pathway with your leaders
Usually a few weeks, at your pace. Nothing is committed until you’ve seen the specifics in writing.
About the monthly fee: it’s an administrative cost — it covers assigning your designated counselor and coordinating our counselors with your leaders. It isn’t a donation, and it isn’t what pays for counseling.
“Partnering with BCC helped our church improve the ways that we care for one another. They provided counseling, training, and resources unlike other counseling centers.”
Pastor Brandon
Counseling Pastor, Chicago area
“BCC has helped us become known in our community as the church that cares.”
Pastor Andrew
Central Michigan
FAQs
Where to start
Care can be better a year from now.
Tell us what your church is carrying, and we’ll help you find the right place to begin — even if that turns out not to be us.
Not sure which one fits? Start the partnership conversation — it takes two minutes, and nothing is committed until you’ve seen the specifics in writing.
