Something I’ve spent 30 years building is finally ready for the people you care for
More than three decades of counseling-room and church wisdom, now organized into 50 Care Packs, each one pairing sound clinical understanding with Scripture. Every pack is free to explore and to share.
Browse everything free: no account, no commitment.
Christian Care Resources is new. The clinician behind it is not. Over the last 16 months, the self-guided resource library Dr. Baumchen built at Journey to Recovery (the same clinical foundation behind every Care Pack) was downloaded by people searching for help all over the world.
These figures count downloads of Dr. Baumchen’s self-guided resources on journeytorecovery.com, March 2025 to July 2026. Christian Care Resources draws on the same clinical library.
Hello,
I’m Dr. Hal Baumchen, and I have some exciting news to share about a project that’s been years in the making.
Over more than three decades as a clinical psychologist and pastor at heart, I’ve written and developed emotional and spiritual resources for the struggles I’ve seen most often in counseling rooms and in churches: anxiety, grief, marriage struggles, addiction, identity, spiritual burnout, and dozens more. For a long time, that material lived in file folders, session notes, and hard-won lessons learned one counseling hour at a time.
Now it’s organized, accessible, and ready for you, through Christian Care Resources.
We’ve built 50 Care Packs, each centered on a specific concern people carry (things like anxiety, boundaries, grief, marriage conflict, addiction, and spiritual burnout), and each one comes with carefully chosen resources to help you understand what you’re facing and take real steps forward, grounded in both sound clinical understanding and Scripture.
Here’s what makes this different: everything is easy to browse, easy to assign, and just a click away. Whether you’re a pastor caring for someone in your congregation, a counselor building a client’s plan, or simply someone looking for help with what you’re carrying right now, you can explore the site, click on any Care Pack, and see exactly what’s inside. It’s all free.
No wading through files. No guessing where to start. Just clear, focused help for the most common struggles people bring to counseling and to prayer.
I’d love for you to take a few minutes and explore what we’ve built. Click into a Care Pack that speaks to something you or someone you love is facing, and see for yourself.
This has been a labor of love for a long time, and I’m genuinely glad it’s finally in your hands.
Ten Reasons Leaders Are Choosing Christian Care Resources
Someone in your congregation finally tells you what’s really going on. You want to hand them something better than good intentions: something biblically grounded, clinically sound, and ready the moment they need it. That’s what Christian Care Resources is built for.
You can respond the same day someone opens up to you.
No waiting for a counseling intake, no six-week wait list. Someone tells you what’s really going on, and you can have the right resource in their hands within minutes.
It’s written by a licensed clinical psychologist, not a well-meaning volunteer.
Every Care Pack blends 30+ years of clinical practice with sound biblical grounding: professional quality and faith alignment, without having to choose one over the other.
You don’t need training or a program to launch.
No curriculum to learn, no certification, no rollout. Pick the pack, send the link, done.
It’s organized the way people actually talk, not the way clinicians do.
“We can’t stop fighting” and “I’m anxious all the time,” not diagnostic categories. You don’t need to know what anything is called to find the right help.
It meets people where they actually are.
Not everyone is ready for counseling, can afford it, or will go. This gives them something real to hold onto in the meantime.
It protects your time and your limits.
You’re not becoming their counselor. You’re pointing them toward real help and staying in your lane as their pastor, which is both more sustainable for you and more appropriate for them.
There’s no account or login friction for the person you’re caring for.
They click a link and read. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to remember a password for, no extra barrier between them and the help.
It’s free for your whole congregation.
There’s no subscription and no per-person fee. Send as many links to as many people as you need (a couple, a grieving widow, a teenager, yourself on a hard week).
Your people can open the whole library themselves.
The Member Library holds all 197 readings, self-checks, and trackers. Members enter an email once and everything opens, so help is there even between conversations with you.
It scales with whatever your church needs next.
Beyond the 50 Care Packs, you can build your own pack from any of the 197 readings in a couple of minutes, so you’re never stuck without something to reach for.
Free for every church
All 50 Care Packs and all 197 readings in the Member Library, at no cost to your church or to the people you send them to.
No subscription · no per-person fees · nothing to install.
Explore the Care Packs →Leading a counseling practice or a network of churches? We can help you get started: info@journeytorecovery.com · (651) 363-9973