DR. CHARLES R. SOLOMON – ANOINTED TO SERVE

AUTHOR PROFILE

SHORT PROFILE

“Handbook to Happiness” (Tyndale House Publishers) is the foundational book for SpirituotherapyTM, Dr. Charles R. Solomon’s doctoral thesis from the University of Northern Colorado in 1972, awarding the degree of “Doctor of Education in Spirituotherapy.” This Bible-based approach to counseling or discipleship is called Exchanged Life counseling. “Handbook to Happiness” is the flagship book of the Exchanged Life counseling movement, synonymous with revival. Hurting people are healed by the living Word of God. Dr. Charles R. Solomon is the Founder & President Emeritus of Grace Fellowship International (GFI), incorporated in 1969, to implement a spiritual counseling ministry to share the power of the Cross with hurting people. GFI trains professionals and lay people on six continents to share the power of the Cross and see the Holy Spirit radically transform lives. GFI is a nondenominational corporation with allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ and to the infallible and immutable Word of God. GFI pioneers a Christian counseling model that applies the victorious life message of the New Testament to personal ministry, teaching how one can be equipped for Christ-Centered soul care ministry as a biblical counselor. Starting a full time ministry on February 1, 1970, GFI now transforms lives in revival and sanctification, through the ministry of discipleship counseling and the printed page.

LONG PROFILE

“Handbook to Happiness” is the foundational book for SpirituotherapyTM, Dr. Charles R. Solomon’s doctoral thesis in psychology and counseling from the University of Northern Colorado in 1972, for which he was awarded the degree of “Doctor of Education in Spirituotherapy.” This Bible-based approach to counseling or discipleship is also known as exchanged life counseling.

Dr. Charles R. Solomon is the Founder & President Emeritus of Grace Fellowship International (GFI), incorporated in Colorado, USA in 1969, to implement a spiritual counseling ministry to share the power of the Cross with hurting people. The first GFI office opened on February 1, 1970, in Denver, Colorado. The first branch office opened in 1975, and the first international office was opened in Argentina in January 1981. The first training seminar was conducted in Colorado Springs in 1972.

Grace Fellowship International (GFI) trains professionals and lay people on six continents to share the power of the Cross and see the Holy Spirit radically transform lives. Hurting people are led directly to the Cross of Christ – both for eternal life with Christ, and for the abundant life, here and now. God called Dr. Solomon in 1967 to pioneer the approach after God’s work in his own life in 1965, through the words of Isaiah 58:10-12.

Grace Fellowship International (GFI), originally established in Denver, Colorado in 1969, has now relocated to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It is a nondenominational corporation, whose allegiance is to the Lord Jesus Christ and to the infallible and immutable Word of God. “Handbook to Happiness” is greatly used by God to lead hurting people into victorious living, by the glorious healing grace of Jesus Christ. Hurting people are healed by the living Word of God.

The mission of Dr. Solomon’s Grace Fellowship International (GFI) is to teach how to live victoriously, disciple strategically, and counsel effectively, using a personal ministry model that simplifies with clarity, illustrates with diagrams, personalizes and demonstrates. Since 1970, GFI pioneers a Christian counseling model that applies the victorious life message of the New Testament to personal ministry, teaching how one can be equipped for Christ-Centered soul care ministry as a biblical counselor.

Grace Fellowship International (GFI), incorporated in 1969, began full time ministry on February 1, 1970. It now has a prominent presence on six continents, transforming lives in revival and sanctification, through the ministry of discipleship counseling and the printed page. Handbook to Happiness (Tyndale House Publishers) is the flagship book of the Exchanged Life counseling movement, synonymous with revival. Chapter 2 has been condensed into tract form, the Wheel and Line, and translated into 49 languages.

Dr. Charles R. Solomon received his B.S. degree from East Tennessee State University and his Master of Personnel Service degree from the University of Colorado. While employed with Lockheed-Martin Corporation as a senior engineer from 1951 until 1970, he began counseling part-time, under a contract with the Department of Labor, in which Lockheed-Martin was to hire staff for clerical work. His master’s thesis was based on the results of that program. Dr. Solomon’s doctoral thesis was published as the first edition of “Handbook to Happiness.”