We now have an Amazon Wishlist!

Have you been wanting a specific and tangible way to help support Anew Day financially? If so, you may want to check out our newly added Amazon Wish List! It has a variety of optional items that we feel would improve the services we offer to our clients. You can add them to your Amazon shopping cart, and after purchasing, the items will be sent to our office directly. It is a great way to fulfill our particular needs and help our organization directly. We plan on updating this wish list, so check back in periodically to see new items that have been added. We greatly appreciate all the support that our local community has provided over the many years!

Here's the link to our Amazon Wish List: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/TD8V1ALQDF4N/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex

Welcoming New Staff

I started my time with Anew Day in 2016 when I joined as a Registered Associate MFT pursuing licensure through Anew Day's Professional Training Program. In 2020, I also joined the Administrative department, helping Anew Day navigate both COVID and a change in executive leadership. In 2021, I became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and have held numerous positions including serving since June 2023 as Clinical Director.

I also support Anew Day by offering Information Technology support, helping the organization grow in this new technological age. Being able to serve Anew Day in multiple areas has given me a strong appreciation of the important work that Anew Day does in serving our local community.

Garrett Kronland

Clinical Director

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After first training as a nurse, then staying at home to teach our

eight children, I now have the privilege of serving the Lay Counseling Team at Anew Day. We are a team of men and women from our 20’s to our 80’s who volunteer to meet with clients on a weekly basis. Some of us have one client on one day a week and others have multiple clients on multiple days each week.

We come from different walks of life and bring a variety of types of training and experience with us. What unites us is our passion to provide our clients with the hope and healing that they can experience when they find they don’t have to navigate their experiences alone. I count it an honor and joy to work with such an amazing team of dedicated counselors.

Julie Bousfield

Lay Counseling Supervisor

Grasping for Lifelines & Finding Solid Ground

Growing up, life was relatively simple for me. My family and I lived in a quiet neighborhood. We had a table to eat at, beds to sleep in, friends to play with, schools to teach us. It was mostly great. Nothing is perfect, of course, my family had its share of challenges, as we all do, and I managed them with the skills I had available to me in my youth.

As I grew older and life changed, things got a lot less simple. I found myself having to navigate some difficulties that I hadn’t been prepared for; difficulties like my parents’ divorce, poverty, loss, loneliness, depression, and even suicidal thoughts. Many of the things I had relied on for support were not the solid ground I had once considered them to be. Without knowing how to cope with such adversity on my own, I was sent into a spiral, grasping for lifelines. Today I thank God constantly for having provided unexpected lifelines to me through the likes of pastors, mentors, and counselors at Anew Day.

In my time of need, Anew Day provided ongoing counseling at no cost to me. Through my counselor, I received a listening ear and a helpful guide through some of the most difficult things I’ve ever experienced. We worked through all sorts of things, and today I still use the skills I gained and benefit from the time that we spent in those sessions.

Looking back, I can see that Anew Day provided some of the help that I sorely needed, help I’m so glad I received. I am truly grateful for the support I was given in some of my darkest moments and for the invaluable life and relationship tools I developed at Anew Day.

I am also grateful that Anew Day operates in such a way that I am able to serve others in the same way I was served. Today, I am now part of Anew Day’s Lay Counseling Division. I get to walk through difficult things with others, be a listening ear and a compassionate heart to people who are just like me.

In both experiences, my time here has been that of incredible worth. For those in need of counsel, I cannot more strongly recommend Anew Day. For those seeking opportunity to serve hurting people, I cannot recommend Anew Day more strongly. I am glad this ministry exists. I expectantly praise God for the many years of faithful ministry to come.

Jake Freeman

Lay Counselor