Equipping Businesses to Care for Their People

The Business Alliance Program is designed to help organizations strengthen their teams and care for their people through Kingdom-focused principles. We provide guidance and support in areas such as Employee Care, Mental Health Access, Leadership Support, Workplace Culture, and Faith Integration. Through our tiered partnership options, businesses receive customized resources, counseling access, and chaplain support that meet them where they are and help them build a healthy, resilient, and purpose-driven workplace.

Strengthen Your Business. Support Your People. Equip Your Leadership.

A partnership program designed to care for business owners, leaders, and employees across Southeast Georgia.

Featured Resources

  • Chaplain Care & Pastoral Support – Trusted presence for prayer, encouragement, and crisis response
  • Employee Counseling & Referral Pathway – Direct access to confidential, faith-informed counseling
  • Leadership Support & Consultation – Guidance for navigating difficult personnel and organizational challenges
  • Crisis Response Support – Immediate care during critical situations (grief, trauma, addiction, etc.)
  • Faith Integration in the Workplace – Thoughtful, respectful integration of Biblical principles into leadership and culture
  • Workforce Wellness & Family Support – Strengthening the personal and relational health of employees

Description:

Behind every business are people carrying real burdens—stress, family struggles, addiction, grief, and mental health challenges.

Most leaders want to help.
Few have the resources to do it well.

The Business Alliance Program exists so you don’t have to carry that responsibility alone.

The Leadership Development Program is designed to strengthen leaders from the inside out: personally, professionally, and spiritually. We come alongside business owners, managers, and emerging leaders to help them navigate the weight of leadership with wisdom, integrity, and confidence.

Through a combination of coaching, practical tools, and faith-integrated guidance, we help leaders grow in their ability to lead people well, make sound decisions, and cultivate a healthy workplace culture.

What We Focus On

Personal Leadership Health

  • Managing stress, pressure, and emotional weight
  • Developing self-awareness and emotional intelligence
  • Maintaining integrity and consistency in leadership


People & Team Leadership

  • Navigating difficult conversations and personnel issues
  • Leading with both truth and grace
  • Building trust and accountability within teams


Faith-Integrated Leadership

  • Applying Biblical principles to everyday leadership decisions
  • Leading with humility, conviction, and purpose
  • Creating a culture that reflects your values without being forced or performative


Decision-Making & Clarity

  • Processing complex situations with wisdom
  • Avoiding reactive leadership
  • Strengthening confidence in high-stakes decisions


How It Works

  • One-on-One Leadership Coaching
    Personalized sessions focused on real-time challenges and growth areas
  • Situational Consultation
    Support when navigating difficult employee or organizational situations
  • Ongoing Partnership
    Consistent check-ins to ensure leaders are supported, not isolated


Why This Matters

Leadership can be isolating. Many leaders carry the weight of their team’s challenges without a trusted place to process, reflect, and seek counsel.

This program provides that space.

When leaders are healthy and supported:

  • Teams become more stable
  • Conflict is handled more effectively
  • Culture becomes stronger and more consistent
  • People feel seen, valued, and cared for


Best Fit

This program is ideal for:

  • Business owners and operators
  • Managers and supervisors
  • Emerging leaders with growth potential


Integration with the Business Alliance

Leadership Development is woven into our Business Alliance partnerships, ensuring that care for employees is matched with strong, supported leadership.

Healthy leaders build healthy organizations. We’re here to walk alongside you as you lead.

Every organization is different and so are the challenges your people face. Our Custom Trainings & Discipleship offerings are designed to meet your team where they are, providing practical teaching, Biblical guidance, and real-life application that strengthens both individuals and your overall culture.

Whether addressing specific challenges or building a stronger foundation for growth, we partner with you to deliver training and discipleship experiences that are relevant, engaging, and impactful.

What We Offer

Custom Trainings
Targeted sessions built around the needs of your team, including:

  • Mental health awareness in the workplace
  • Substance misuse education and prevention
  • Marriage and family health
  • Stress, burnout, and emotional resilience
  • Conflict resolution and communication
  • Leadership development and team dynamics

Each training is designed to be practical, interactive, and immediately applicable.

Discipleship Opportunities
Intentional spaces for spiritual growth and encouragement, such as:

  • Devotionals or faith-based team gatherings
  • Small group discipleship for employees or leaders
  • Biblical teaching on work, purpose, and integrity
  • Encouragement and prayer in the context of real-life challenges

These moments are always offered in a way that is respectful, invitational, and aligned with your organizational culture.

How It Works

  • We assess your team’s needs and priorities
  • We design a customized training or discipleship plan
  • We deliver sessions onsite or virtually
  • We follow up with additional support or resources as needed

Why This Matters

Training informs but discipleship transforms.

When your team is equipped with both practical tools and Biblical truth:

  • Communication improves
  • Stress is managed more effectively
  • Relationships grow stronger
  • Culture becomes more unified and resilient

Best Fit

This offering is ideal for organizations that:

  • Want to proactively invest in their people
  • Are facing specific cultural or personnel challenges
  • Desire to integrate faith into workplace development in a meaningful way

When people grow, organizations thrive. We’re here to help you invest in both.

Leadership carries weight: personally and professionally. The Chaplain Care & Leadership Support offering provides a steady, trusted presence to walk alongside you and your team through both everyday challenges and critical moments.

We serve as a confidential, faith-informed resource for leaders, employees, and subcontractors offering care, counsel, and clarity when it’s needed most. Whether responding to a crisis or simply being present in the day-to-day, our goal is to ensure that no one has to navigate life’s challenges alone.

What We Provide

Chaplain Care for Your Team

  • Availability for prayer, encouragement, and pastoral conversation
  • Support during times of crisis (grief, loss, addiction, family challenges)
  • Relational presence that builds trust over time
  • Care extended to both employees and subcontractors

Crisis Response & Care

  • Immediate support during critical incidents
  • Presence during seasons of loss, trauma, or instability
  • Coordination of care and connection to counseling when needed

How It Works

  • Ongoing access to chaplain support for leadership and referred situations
  • Scheduled or as-needed connection points
  • Seamless referral into counseling for deeper care needs
  • Consistent relationship built over time not just in moments of crisis

Why This Matters

Most leaders care deeply about their people but don’t always have the capacity or training to respond to complex personal challenges.

This is where we step in.

When trusted care is present:

  • Employees feel seen and supported
  • Leaders are not left carrying difficult situations alone
  • Crisis moments are handled with wisdom and compassion
  • A culture of care and trust begins to take root

Best Fit

This offering is ideal for organizations that:

  • Want a trusted, faith-aligned presence available to their team
  • Are navigating high-stress or high-risk environments
  • Desire support in caring for people without overstepping professional boundaries

A steady presence can make all the difference. We’re here to walk with you and your people every step of the way.

Every organization has people walking through real-life challenges:  stress, anxiety, marriage struggles, addiction, grief, and more. Left unaddressed, these issues don’t stay at home they impact focus, performance, relationships, and overall workplace health.

Our Employee Care & Counseling Access offering ensures your team has a clear, trusted pathway to professional help when they need it most. We provide confidential, high-quality counseling services that integrate clinical excellence with Biblical truth—helping individuals experience real healing and lasting change.

What We Provide

Professional Counseling Services

  • Licensed, experienced counselors
  • Support for a wide range of issues including:
    • Anxiety, depression, and stress
    • Marriage and family challenges
    • Substance misuse and addiction
    • Trauma and past wounds
  • Faith-informed approach that integrates Biblical truth with clinical best practices

Simple & Structured Access

  • Easy referral process for leadership or designated contacts
  • Employer-approved session structure (ex: 5 or 10 sessions per employee)
  • Clear communication and billing process
  • Option to scale care based on organizational needs

Confidential & Trusted Care

  • No personal information shared with employers
  • Strict confidentiality maintained at all times
  • Only high-level utilization data provided (if requested)
  • A safe place for employees to be honest and get help

How It Works

  • Leadership or a designated contact submits a referral
  • We connect the employee with a counselor quickly
  • Sessions are scheduled directly with the client
  • Billing is handled monthly based on sessions used (or included package structure)

Why This Matters

When employees have access to real help:

  • Stress and distraction decrease
  • Focus and productivity improve
  • Relationships at work and home become healthier
  • Turnover and burnout are reduced

More importantly, people feel cared for not just as workers, but as individuals.

Best Fit

This offering is ideal for organizations that:

  • Want a trusted place to send employees in times of need
  • Recognize the impact of mental and emotional health on performance
  • Desire to care for their people in a meaningful and practical way

When your people have a place to turn, everything changes. We’re here to provide that place.

Culture is not built by accident, it is shaped by what is modeled, reinforced, and valued over time. For many leaders, there is a desire to integrate faith into the workplace, but uncertainty around how to do it appropriately and effectively often creates hesitation.

Our Faith Integration & Workplace Culture offering helps you cultivate a healthy, values-driven environment where faith can be expressed in a way that is authentic, respectful, and life-giving. We come alongside your leadership to provide clarity, guidance, and practical ways to strengthen your culture without creating pressure or discomfort.

What We Provide

Faith Integration Guidance

  • Support for thoughtfully incorporating faith into workplace rhythms
  • Biblical perspective on leadership, work, and purpose
  • Guardrails to ensure all expressions are:
    • Respectful
    • Non-coercive
    • Aligned with your organizational values

Workplace Culture Development

  • Insight into current cultural strengths and challenges
  • Practical strategies to strengthen trust, unity, and morale
  • Reinforcement of healthy communication and relational dynamics
  • Support in creating a workplace where people feel valued and supported

Onsite Presence & Engagement

  • Optional devotionals, prayer moments, or encouragement when invited
  • Relational engagement that builds trust over time
  • A visible, steady presence that reinforces care and connection

How It Works

  • We learn your organization’s culture, values, and goals
  • We help identify natural and appropriate points of integration
  • We support implementation through presence, guidance, and consistency
  • We adjust as needed to ensure alignment with your team and leadership

Why This Matters

When faith and values are integrated well:

  • Culture becomes more unified and purpose-driven
  • Employees experience deeper meaning in their work
  • Trust grows between leadership and team members
  • The workplace becomes a place of encouragement, not just productivity

Done poorly, it creates tension. Done well, it creates transformation.

Best Fit

This offering is ideal for organizations that:

  • Want to incorporate faith into their workplace in a thoughtful way
  • Value culture as a key driver of long-term success
  • Desire to lead with both conviction and wisdom

A healthy culture doesn’t just happen, it is built with intention. We’re here to help you build it well.

Option 1: Counseling Referral Only

$120 per session
$150 per session for Specialties (Trauma, Play Therapy, and Equine Therapy)

Includes:

  • Confidential, professional counseling
  • Faith-informed clinical care
  • Pre-approved session model (8 or 10 sessions)

Ideal for:
Organizations seeking a trusted referral option for immediate needs


Option 2: Business Alliance (Basic)

$500/month

Includes:

  • Counseling referral pathway
  • Quarterly leadership consultation
  • Quarterly engagement insights

Ideal for:
Organizations seeking consistent care presence and support


Option 3: Integrated Care Partnership $1,500/month

Includes:

  • Everything in Basic Package
  • Chaplain support for leadership and referred situations
  • Up to 8 counseling sessions per month
  • Monthly onsite chaplain presence
  • Priority care and crisis response


Option 4:  A Customized Program for each Business

Ideal for:
Organizations committed to proactive care, strong culture, and long-term impact


Your Role as a Partner

  • Provide a point of contact for coordination
  • Encourage employees to utilize available care
  • Participate in periodic check-ins
  • Help cultivate a culture where care is accessible and valued

Getting Started

  1. Schedule a consultation
  2. Select your partnership level
  3. Begin with a 90-day pilot phase
  4. Launch a customized implementation plan

We work with you to ensure the process is simple, aligned with your business, and easy for employees to access.

Credentials

Credentials of Cord of 3

Cord of 3 is a nonprofit ministry that has worked in Southeast Georgia for 18 years.  We are recognized as a provider for the American Association of Christian Counselors and by Focus on the Family Counselor Referral Network.  

Credentials of our counselors

Our counselors are all master’s level or higher clinicians with degrees in Professional Counseling or Marriage and Family Therapy. Degrees include:  Master level, Specialist level, and PhD level clinicians.  We are all licensed or licensed eligible with the state of Georgia (licensed eligible means they are completing the necessary supervision requirements post-master’s degree for the Georgia licensure board).  Some hold specialized certifications such as:  Certified Addictions Counselor II (CAC II), Registered Play Therapist (RPT), Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor (CPCS), National Board Certification (NBC), Trauma Counselor Certification (STAR & TF-CBT), and various other certifications.

The standard by which we provide biblical and clinical counseling

Cord of 3 provides sound clinical counseling in that we use evidence based models of therapy to guide the treatment planning and interventions used with the families we serve.  These models are:  Structural Family Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Strategic Trauma Abuse and Recovery.  We do not use any models that hold a humanistic worldview as the tenets of therapy.  While our counselors are trained with all the theories of counseling, we are selective in which models we use so that we can maintain the integrity of Biblical Truth in the counseling sessions.

Cord of 3 provides sound Biblical Counseling on two levels.

  1. The majority of our counselors have graduated with their master’s degree in Christian Counseling which leads them to an integrative model of Biblical/Pastoral counseling for licensure as a Professional Counselor.  They have graduated from colleges such as Liberty University, Richmont Graduate University, and Regents University.  These master’s programs are uniquely and unapologetically Christian and Biblical in their approach. 
  2. Cord of 3 has implemented certain measures into our practices that help us maintain the integrity of the Biblical side of our counseling.  All new hires at Cord of 3 go through a 40 week Integration training conducted by the Executive Director which walks them through the Nouthetic Counseling model for Biblical Counseling.  In addition to this, Counselors are required to attend a certain # of hours of supervision monthly with a specific focus of supervision being on the Biblical integrity of the counseling we provide.  Finally, all staff members are a part of a weekly Spiritual Formation group where we are looking at scripture and its application to our lives. 

We communicate with all of the families we serve that we believe the Bible, not psychology, is the authority on life. Therefore, this changes the approach that we take to the counseling sessions.  We then have certain measures we monitor to make sure the Bible is used as the standard for all counseling sessions.

To be employed with Cord of 3, it is a requirement that you are an active member of a healthy Bible believing church in order to provide counseling to families.  

Also, in every treatment plan with the families we serve, we have a specific focus on cultivating the “client’s” identity in Christ.  A successful discharge from counseling at Cord of 3 includes the family having gone through this ‘Identity in Christ’ counseling and we look for the fruit of the spirit as our primary outcome measure in this area.

Cord of 3 monitors the spiritual health of the staff through 3 parameters

  1. A Monthly balance wheel which assesses the components of a counselor’s spiritual life.
  2. An annual Professional Development Plan which assesses the counselor’s annual goals for spiritual growth. We monitor progress made on those goals on a monthly basis.
  3. A bi-monthly one on one check-in by the Executive Director with each counselor to talk about their walk with God.

Our Statement of Faith

As a Christian agency, Cord of 3 does reserve the right to screen employees on the basis of our statement of faith.  We expect all employees to agree to and to abide within our statement of faith.

  • We believe in one true and living God:  The Father, Son and Holy Spirit;  that these Three are One, and are harmoniously equal in infinite power, wisdom, justice, holiness, mercy, love and truth.
  • We believe that God created man good, able to stand but liable to fall, and that man fell from this pure estate and brought himself under condemnation and death, and that man is wholly unable to deliver himself from this condition.
  • We believe that God chose a people unto salvation or eternal life and that this choice was eternal, particular, and unconditional.
  • We believe that God was in Christ and that by the sacrifice of Jesus, all whom God chose unto salvation were forever redeemed from the curse of the law and made righteous in Him.
  • We believe that all who were redeemed by the Son, will in time be effectually called by the Holy Spirit, “Born Again”, and made partakers of the Divine nature.
  • We believe that all who are regenerated (effectually called) will be finally saved.  Not one can be finally lost.
  • We believe that the bodies of all men will be resurrected from the grave and that the joys of the righteous will be eternal and that the punishment of the wicked everlasting.
  • We believe that all who are called of God, are under obligation to do good works, and that in keeping of His Commandments, there is great reward.
  • We believe that the Church is the highest ecclesiastical authority on earth, subject alone under God for all her acts and that her form of government is congregational, each member having an equal voice in all her acts.  Each employee MUST be an active member of a local conservative Bible believing church.  The Executive Director is the sole discretionary decision maker on what constitutes a conservative Bible believing church.
  • We believe the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments (of which we consider the King James Translation to be the best) to be the inspired word of God.  And that they alone are to govern God’s People both in faith and practice.

Join the Business Alliance Program today and equip your ministry with the tools, training, and support to strengthen your Business and advance God’s Kingdom.

For more information or to inquire further, contact:

Clay Gill, Executive Director
Tim Ritchie, Strategic Relationships
Cord of 3 Family Ministries
info@cotcs.org
912-282-0992

Marriage Intensive

In contrast to traditional weekly counseling, where progress can be slow and interrupted by life’s distractions, a marriage intensive provides an immersive, extended period of therapeutic care designed to help couples make meaningful, measurable progress in their relationship in just one dedicated week.

Cord of 3 Nonprofit Alliance Program

Our Nonprofit Alliance Program is dedicated to empowering other nonprofits to thrive through Kingdom-focused principles, guiding them toward sustainability and growth in Program Development, Strategic Planning, Advancement, Financial Accounting, and Capital Campaign management. We offer tiered service levels to meet nonprofits at their stage of development and growth goals.

Training and Discipleship

The Cord of 3 training and discipleship program serves the community by offering educational seminars on various mental health and related topics (parenting subjects, coping with loss, warning signs of addiction) as well as conferences, retreats, and seminars for area churches on matters that pertain to God’s design for the family.

Counselor Education & Supervision

Cord of 3’s Counselor education and supervision program is deigned to support interns who are completing their master’s degree, counselors who are working toward licensure, and professionals who are working to integrate their Chritian faith into their clinical practice.

Equine Therapy

Cord of 3’s equine therapy program is designed for individuals ages 7 and up as well as women ages 13+ and families. Equine therapy can help individuals and families overcome challenges, cuiltivate healthy relational skills, build trust, improve interpersonal and behavioral functioning, and create positive self-concept and identity in Christ.

Play God’s Way

A Christ-centered play therapy model to meet the spiritual, emotional, and mental health needs of children. Through play therapy, children learn to accept responsibility for behavior, engage in healthy coping strategies, acquire problem-solving skills, develop empathy for others, and gain an understanding of identity in Christ.

ADDICTION RECOVERY

Addictions always originate in pain… The question is never ‘why the addiction?,’ but rather ‘why the pain?’” (Dr. Gabor Maté). Counselors can help those struggling with addictions address underlying painful issues and then break the addictive patterns.

Child & Adolescent

Behavioral issues at home or in school often have an underlying cause, such as trauma, depression, anxiety, or other mental health conditions. The experienced staff at Cord of 3 meets each child with love, builds trust, and applies effective treatment that approaches the root cause of the behavior.

Marriage & Family

As in couple’s counseling, family counseling focuses on the relationship and dynamics within the family unit and between the individual members of it. Counselors will help clients identify unhealthy or unhelpful patterns, and to address them by developing healthier communication and conflict resolutions skills, create realistic expectations, and restructure familial roles to benefit everyone. The ultimate goal is to help the family be better able to thrive as a team.

STRESS & TRAUMA

Every person will at some point have at least one potentially traumatic experience, but this doesn’t impact everyone in the same ways. When struggling to process and move on from negative life experiences, therapy offers a powerful method of finding support and healing.

EMOTIONAL WHOLENESS

Individual counseling can help overcome the sometimes overwhelming fear and hopelessness by helping you better understand the conditions that led to the emotional brokenness you are experiencing, and applying healthy coping skills against them.