Mrs. Marilyn Hardin
Henley
(my husband's name is Randall Henley)
Lawrenceville, Ga
30044
770-237-9126
770-339-7957
EDUCATION:
Carson-Newman College, Jefferson
City, Tennessee – 1976
BA, Art, and Minor: Education
Certification to Teach Art, Kindergarten –
12th Grades in Tennessee,
North Carolina and Georgia
Certification to teach elementary education
grades K-5
Extensive Training Through Courses in Pastoral
and General Counseling
Classes in Psychology at Carson
Newman College
Course with Dr. Steve Finn, Psychologist in
basic counseling
Course with Andy Comiskey on
reflective listening based on his classes at Fuller Theological
Seminary.
Seminar with Leanne Payne in Santa
Monica Ca and also in Dallas, Tx. area.
Earned Certificate, in Seattle, to
conduct a 12 step program based on AA, but more Christ centered.
Group therapy demonstrated 1 year
at a ministry called in Pasadena, Ca, led by psychologist Susan
Hylyman
(she moved in the gifts of the Holy
Spirit.)
John and Paula Sanford led
counseling course in Atlanta, which I completed with certificate.
Completed class on a Personality
Theory System called Creation Therapy.
Earned Certificate in Theophostic
Ministry (Which is leading someone to God so that their experience
with
him would help that person
overcome the difficult or traumatic memories of their lives.)
Received certificate for
counseling through classes taken at Christ Centered Counseling.
Became a member of Atlanta
Christian Counselor Association, 1995.
Ordained through Christ Centered
Counseling, in Atlanta Georgia, 1998.
EXPERIENCE
TUTORING
Atlanta, Georgia – February 1990 to May
1991
*Tutor. Emphasizing reading and study
skills for elementary age children and readiness
Skills for kindergarten and
preschoolers.
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY SCHOOLS
Brevard, North Carolina – February 1988 to
May 1989
*Substitute Teacher for Kindergarten
through 12th grades.
Taught all subjects including
learning disability classes.
REDONDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
Redondo Beach. California
*Second Grade Teacher
-August 1986 to May 1987
*Preschool Teacher
-May 1983 to August 1984
*Third Grade Teacher -May
1982 to August 1983
DESERT STREAM, MINISTRY OF THE VINEYARD
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
Santa Monica, California – part
time
*Counselor: Small Group Facilitator
and Individual Counselor – February 1981 to 1984
*Head of Women’s Counseling,
Full-Time -0 1984 to 1986
Main responsibility: Individual
Counseling. Also, facilitated groups, wrote articles for newsletter, spoke at
Seminars, spoke at Fuller Seminary
for a pastoral counseling class and taught a class at an Exodus
International conference held in San
Francisco, CA.
SELF-EMPLOYEED CONTRACTED WITH TRANSANT
INDUSTRIES
Redondo Beach, California – August 1981 to
February 1983
*Art Consultant and Accessory
Designer
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY SCHOOLS - Brevard,
North Carolina
*Brevard Elementary Art
K-5th Grade – Aug 79 to May 80
*Pisgah Forest Elementary Art
K-5th Grade – Aug 78 to May 79
*Brevard High School Art
9-12 Grade – Aug 78 to May 79
*Transylvania Co. Schools
Substitute K-12 – Jan 77 to May 78
References available upon request.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
I was born and grew up near Brevard, NC. My parents were very
active in the local Baptist church.
My Dad was a deacon and both parents were Sunday school
teachers among other jobs
at church. Their relationship with God and expression of it
has been a was very important influence throughout my life.
I accepted Christ as my savior at age 11. But at age 13 I
hear someone speaking saying the miracles were symbolic not
literal
and I questioned everything not having personally seen any
miracles, I decided that Jesus being raised from the dead was a
miracle and if that did not happen my whole faith was in
vain.
By God’s grace I quickly realized I had no reason to be on
this planet without God and His plan for my life.
I asked God to show me his presence and he did I was deeply
serious about God and His purposes for me after that I soon
found that even at 13, I was doing a lot of listening to
people’s problems, I came to believe being a pastoral counselor
was my calling. I went to a Baptist college, where I
immediately got involved with a charismatic prayer group that
formed
from several freshman. I had already prayed to be filled with
the Holy Spirit but there I received the gift of praying in
tongues
and began to pray for people to be healed. Some were shocked
when they were healed.
Our prayer group experienced great joy seeing the reality of
the work of the Holy Spirit.
At that point I wanted to find a path for counselor training
other than the secular route or the seminaries that I knew
anything about at that time, really promoted a secular point
of view. I believed I heard God tell me after fasting and
praying for a few days to go feed his lambs in California. I
was amazed since at that point I still a freshman at Carson
Newman college in Tennessee. I decided to stay open to it
and see what would happen in North Carolina.
After I graduated and taught in public school 2 years in
North Carolina. Which is what I learned to do.
I went to Los Angeles traveling with a Christian girlfriend
that I attended the same college with, that is where I
met Andy Comisky asking for information to help a guy, I knew
in college, that had decided he was gay.
Andy invited me to go to his meetings and soon ask me to lead
the group for woman that were lesbians. I told him I
didn’t know anything about lesbians. He replied he couldn’t
find anything written about lesbians, the year was 1981.
I prayed about it and felt the Lord said listen to the Holy
Spirit which is what I learned to do.
Through the years, as I have worked, as a counselor, I have
seen a full spectrum of people, with a varied list of issues.
It has always been interesting and often amazing, to be
involved with the presence of God, working in the lives of
people,
as he leads them, toward restoration, so that they, will be
able, to walk out his plan, for their individual lives.
My hope is to continue pastoral counseling, on a more full
time basis. The gifting that God has given me, prophecy and
mercy, seem to expand the more it is used. With great
expectation, I look forward to how I might be used, by
God, to see people delivered from emotional and often
physical pain, to be free to be all they can be, in Christ.
Pastoral-Counselor
