Current CAP Churches

CAP is open to churches from any denomination.

Below is a list of current CAP churches. Scroll down further for some reflections about CAP from clients, churches and psychotherapists.

Alliston Christian Reformed Church, Alliston

All Nations Christian Fellowship, Toronto

All Saints of North America Orthodox Church, Hamilton

Ancaster Christian Reformed Church, Ancaster

Bethany Christian Reformed Church, Bloomfield

Bethany Christian Reformed Church, Fenwick

Bethel Church, Acton

Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Listowel

Bethel Christian Reformed Church, London

Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Newmarket

Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Waterdown

Blenheim Christian Reformed Church, Blenheim

Dresden Christian Reformed Church, Dresden

Cephas Christian Reformed Church, Peterborough

Community Christian Reformed Church, Frankford

Community Christian Reformed Church, Kitchener

Covenant Christian Reformed Church, Woodstock

Discovery Church. Bowmanville

Emmanuel Baptist Church, Bloomfield

Faith Christian Reformed Church, Burlington

Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, Brighton

Fellowship Canadian Reformed Church, Burlington

First Christian Reformed Church, Hamilton

First Christian Reformed Church, Guelph

First Christian Reformed Church, Kingston

First Christian Reformed Church, Sarnia

First Christian Reformed Church, Toronto

Forward City Church, Chatham

Georgetown Christian Reformed Church, Georgetown

Grace Christian Reformed Church, Chatham

Grace Christian Reformed Church, Cobourg

Grace Christian Reformed Church, Scarborough

Grace Church, Port Hope

Hebron Church, Whitby

Hope Fellowship Church, Courtice

Hope Church, Port Perry

Immanuel Christian Reformed Church, Hamilton

Ingersoll Christian Reformed Church, Ingersoll

Jennings Creek Christian Reformed Church, Lindsay

Jubilee Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, St. Catharines

King’s Community Church, Oakville

Living Hope Christian Reformed Church, Sarnia

Maranatha Christian Reformed Church, Bowmanville

Maranatha Christian Reformed Church, Cambridge

Meadowlands Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, Ancaster

Meadowvale Christian Reformed Church, Mississauga

New Hope Christian Fellowship, Belleville

New Hope Church, Hamilton

New Life Christian Reformed Church, Guelph

The Parish, Peterborough

Redeemer Christian Reformed Church, Sarnia

Rehoboth Christian Reformed Church, Bowmanville

Stratford Christian Reformed Church, Stratford

Tillsonburg Christian Reformed Church, Tillsonburg

Trinity Christian Reformed Church, St. Catharines

Waterloo Christian Reformed Church, Waterloo

Wallaceburg Christian Reformed Church, Wallaceburg

Westside Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, Kingston

Willowdale Christian Reformed Church, Willowdale

Wyoming Christian Reformed Church, Wyoming

Zion Christian Reformed Church, Oshawa

I can’t imagine going back (to not having CAP).

In CAP client surveys, 95% said they would recommend the use of CAP to a family member or another church. 49% had never accessed counselling support prior to CAP.

I think people would hesitate to volunteer for any counselling if there were strings attached somewhere. Through CAP, it is easier to talk about this program, so it becomes user friendly and individuals use it because it’s easy. It’s easy to use. You don’t have to go through your pastor. You don’t have to go through your elder or your deacon. You just call it up.

CAP has been a great support with the church offering this help. If I have to pay for this, it is a strain, on top of all the other losses, and health. If having to pay, it would feel like a bought service, rather than a gift from the church, to help through very trying times.

When it started, I thought, “Ah, big deal. Who would use this?” And after a year or two, all of a sudden, I find that it’s fully used, and it was a shock for me. We are in the deacons to help and heal, and to me, that is a prime example of our duty.

For me it also means that I don’t have to research and interview all the counsellors in this area so that I have an idea of who I could refer someone to. Or I’m not scrambling to talk to my colleagues and say “Someone made this request. Who would you recommend?” Because honestly I don’t have the expertise even in some ways to be able to carry some of that out.

You know, the redemption that God brings to us in Christ is body, soul, spirit. CAP allows us, as a church, to sort of highlight that element of God’s redemption that includes psychological and social aspects that people sometimes struggle with, and to find healing in those areas. We can do a lot of physical help, you know, hands-on help with people. We can do a lot of spiritual counselling. I can do that. But as soon as it gets into psychological then it’s out of our field.

It’s cheap. To be quite crass, it’s all about money for me. We’re not having to hire an on-site counsellor, we’re not having to assume the legal liability of providing very personal counselling sessions to people, there’s a built-in confidentiality because it’s not happening on-site. There’s just all kinds of reasons why it’s a very good win-win situation from a purely administrative point of view. The transfer of liability is extremely attractive to me right off the pop, and it’s cheaper than hiring a full-time person.