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EDUCATION
- Wayne is a graduate of Wheaton College (BA with honors); the Philadelphia Seminary (MDiv) with honors); the Westminster Theological Seminary (D.Min - Counseling emphasis with research project on marriage and family counseling).
- He has also been involved extensive graduate studies in various subjects at several graduate schools (psychology at LaSalle University; counseling, theology and church history at Eastern Baptist Seminar; theology and Bible subjects at Wheaton graduate school and Trinity Evangelical Seminary).
FAMILY
- Wayne has been married to his wife, Carol, since
1957. They have four adult children, three daughters-in-law and
17 grandchildren.
EXPERIENCE
- From 1958 to 1976 Wayne served as a
pastor in local churches. From 1976 to the present he has taught
college and graduate school courses in biblical counseling at The
Master's College and Seminary; Westminster Theological Seminary,
Biblical Seminary and the Christian Counseling and Educational
Foundation.
- During this time, Wayne has conducted seminars
and conferences all over our country and around the world. He
has also functioned as the Director of a Counseling Center and
Training School and done extensive counseling.
- For most of this period of time (1976 to the
present) Wayne has been an elder in a church, formerly in Grace
Community Church where he also served as a pastor of one
of the fellowship groups, and more recently in Grace
Fellowship Church of the Lehigh Valley in PA where he ministered along with his son Joshua.
In January 2006 he and Carol moved to Pretoria, South Africa, where he resides eleven months out of the year, so that Wayne can teach biblical counseling to pastors and aspiring pastors and other church leaders. In Pretoria, Wayne is an elder of Grace Fellowship Church and frequently preaches and teaches in their services.
- Carol regularly teaches women's bible studies in South Africa and is very involved in the counseling ministry along with Wayne. In June 2007, the Mack's were joined at GFC-Pretoria by their son Joshua, who serves as co-pastor and as spiritual director of Mercy Ministries - a ministry to orphans and African nationals. In South Africa, Wayne teaches at Grace School of Ministry, a school designed to prepare people for effective ministry throughout Africa especially in the area of biblical counseling/ discipleship. Grace School of Ministry provides 16 biblical courses on various subjects over a two year period for students who come from at least seven different countries in Africa and also with some coming from Europe. Fulfillment of the courses and their required assignments can be applied toward an Honor's degree at Northwest University.
- Wayne is a charter member of the National
Association of Nouthetic Counselors (NANC - founded in
the early part of the 1970s). For much of this time, he has
served as an executive board member and in 2006 was inducted into the highest level of NANC as a Member of the Academy. Until he came to South Africa Wayne regularly taught at NANC's annual national conference.
- Wayne has served on the board of FIRE (Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals) and on the Board of Directors of Publicaciones Faro de Gracia for many years.
- Through Strengthening
Ministries International, he seeks to strengthen
churches and Christians by developing and distributing
biblically based practical books, audio and video tapes on counseling,
theological and Christian living subjects.
PUBLICATIONS
- Wayne has written many magazine articles that
have been published in Reformation Today, The Journal of Pastoral
Counseling, The Journal of Biblical Counseling and The Master's
Journal.
- He has written more than 20 books including Strengthening Your Marriage; Your Family God's Way; Preparing for Marriage God's Way; Sweethearts for A Lifetime; God's Plan for In Law Relations; Homework Manual for Biblical Living, Volumes 1 and 2 and 3; Life in the Father's House; An Introduction to Biblical Counseling (with John MacArthur); Twin Pillars of the Christian Life; The Role of Women in the Church; It's Not Fair; God's Solutions to Life's Problems; The Fear Factor; Down But Not Out; Out of the Blues; Anger and Stress Management God's Way; True Success and How to Attain It; To Be or Not To Be a Church Member: That is the Question; Humility: A Forgotten Virtue; A Fight to the Death; Reaching the Ear of God; The Biblical Concept of Church Discipline; To God Be The Glory; You Can Overcome Interpersonal Problems; How to Overcome Despondency. Wayne has also contributed chapters to the book The Sufficiency of Scripture and several other books. Many of his books have been translated into other languages such as German, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Indonesian and Africans.
- Wayne has produced numerous audio and video tapes on various subjects. Included among the audio and video tapes on various subjects are many entire counseling courses and Christian Living Courses. All of these are available and are distributed by www.mackministries.org.za in South Africa and www.mackministries.org in the United States of America.
- Presently, Wayne devotes some of his time to developing additional material (books, articles, audio and video tapes, web site information) for strengthening and equipping the church for the work of ministry and for building up the body of Christ (Ephesians 4:12).
- Mrs. Carol Mack has spoken and participated in many marriage and family seminars and retreats for women. She has addressed such topics as "Taming the Tongue," "How to handle Stress before it handles you," "How to be a Fulfilled and Fulfilling Wife, "Mothering God's Way," " "How to be content", "The Disciplines of a Godly Woman", "Developing an Attitude of Gratitude" and many other topics.
- Mrs. Mack has served as a pastor's wife for many years and has been a spiritual mentor for many younger ladies whose husbands were in seminary or in the pastorate. She regularly teaches women's bible studies in South Africa and is very involved in the counseling ministry along with Wayne.
- She is a graduate of Wheaton College, and since graduating from college, has taken numerous courses on educational subjects and on Biblical Counseling.
- Prior to and after the child bearing and rearing family life period, she served for many years as a teacher, mainly in Christian schools. Her ministry of counseling women and children has been greatly blessed of the Lord, with many women seeking her out for direction and assistance on many problematic issues.
- While her husband was teaching at The Master's College she met weekly with the wives of seminary students to disciple and counsel them. As mentioned previously, Dr. and Mrs. Mack were married in 1957 and have four children and presently have 17 grandchildren.
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