"It's all about asking God better questions... and follow up questions."

Journey Tools is a listening prayer and care approach that majors on Jesus being the Wonderful Counselor - He is present through His Word and Spirit and able to do more than human reasoning alone can do. Donny Godsey (CCM Founder and Journey Tools author) discovered that asking God strategic questions brought healing much faster than years of his own counseling training provided, both for himself and others.

The Journey Tools course covers many of the concepts and strategic questions used to efficiently address a variety common and difficult cases including grief, forgiveness, addiction, relationships, and more. Participants have found it well grounded in Biblical principles and immediately practical for addressing stubborn issues.

The focus for the group experience is engaging the material and sharing what the Lord is showing you. Participants have said this was far better than groups where people just dump their problems.

The material is simple enough to use with children and profound enough to stump theologians and experienced professionals. Check out sample content available on this site.

Cross Care Ministries is the 501c3 nonprofit that schedules Journey Tools training, access and organizes EAP grant opportunities.

EAP stands for "Employee Assistance Program”. Originally developed in the 1930’s and 40’s as a means to help alcoholic issues in the workplace. By the 1980’s, corporate EAPs had expanded to include a much wider range of employee mental health.

EAPs over time had become another form of corporate insurance (a $3.6 billion a year industry), which was substantially more profitable the less people actually used it. In fact, pre-covid, as a national average, only 3% of employees used their company’s free mental health services via EAP for a variety of reasons: top of which was fear that it would get back to their HR departments or bosses and so the employees opted to pay for their own care out of pocket or skipped it entirely.

Case in point, research showed Georgia and North Carolina EAP counselors made only $24 an hour, which begs the question how good is the actual care when independent counseling commands 3 to 10 times higher fees.

According to the majority of employees and HR managers interviewed, they believed the EAP resources were subpar to what they wanted for addressing their home and workplace issues.

EAPs are a very good idea as a core concept, but desperately need rebuilding for why they exist and how they are interacted with to better serve their client companies and their employees.

Cross Care Ministries and Journey Tools are available through partnering provider networks. If your EAP or care provider is not connected with us, let us know and we will sort out how to remedy that.

Peer led groups, 1-to-1 ministry, and self directed care are available.

In many cases, no. It is a simple add-on for those using our care model. We work out the service access at the EAP program end.

The course is focused on equipping and typically done online as a 9 week training that involves video based homework and weekly online group discussion.

Many participants want to go through it again at a slower pace to try to capture more mastery of the material and leverage deeper transformation across more issues.