National Assoc. of Nouthetic Counselors

What is NANC?

The National Association of Nouthetic Counselors is a fellowship of Christian pastors and laymen who have banded together to promote excellence in biblical counseling. NANC was founded in 1975 in service to Christ to address several needs in the biblical counseling community.

NANC exists to help pastors and those who would be ministers of the Word of God by providing help and encouragement. NANC is first and foremost a certifying organization. The certifying process is rigorous but attainable by even the busiest pastor. The process consists of the completion of an approved training course, the completion of both a theological and a practical counseling test, several references, and a minimum of 50 hours of supervised counseling experience. The first step in the process is to write the NANC office and request a membership packet.

For the Pastor

NANC also exists to promote the cause of Biblical counseling and the doctrine of the sufficiency of the Scriptures. The Biblical Counselor, NANC’s newsletter, goes out to a mailing list of 14,000.

NANC also desires to be a key resource for the busy pastor who is looking for biblical answers to the problems he faces as he ministers the Word to his people. Over the years the annual NANC conference has featured hundreds of lectures on almost every topic relating to counseling. A listing of these taped workshops can be found on the Sound Word website as well as information about ordering tapes. The NANC website is becoming more and more useful as a resource for information about training and help for specific counseling issues.