Announcing Our New Sumter Location
We here at the Christian Counseling Center are elated to announce that we are expanding once more, this time into a second satellite location in Sumter, SC. Our new location is in Sumter’s Historic District at 232 W. Calhoun St., and we are currently open and serving...
12-Steps for Christian Growth
Trapped in a struggle you cannot overcome? Wrestling with patterns you can't break on your own? Carrying a burden you cannot seem to lay down? 12 Steps for Christian Growth is a support group focused on real life, real hope, and real transformation. 13 weekly meetings...
The Director’s Summer Reading List
Looking for a light read at the beach? Well, the books here are probably not that, but might bring some new perspectives for you this summer on things like faith, mental health, and wellbeing. Submitted below are a few of my recommendations for some summer reading and...
Your Brain on Rest
Back in the 1980s, when drug use in America was quite high, there was a famous PSA released to combat this epidemic. It features a man holding an egg in a kitchen near a frying pan. The egg, he says, is our brain, while the frying pan represents drugs. He then cracks...
Comforting the Downcast
When you’ve been in the business of counseling or pastoring for a while, you begin to notice how life’s difficulties become almost seasonal: anxiety and stress in the Fall as school starts, loneliness and family disruption around the holidays, and sadness in the...
2024 Year End Letter
Dear friends, Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! My name is Dr. Brian Mesimer, and I am the new Executive Director of the Christian Counseling Center of First Presbyterian Church. I have been on staff here at the Center since 2015, while most recently...
Happy Holidays: Myth or Reality?
How do you answer that question? Are the holidays a time of rejoicing, gratitude, and giving? Or, are they a time of pressure, stress, and expectations? The holiday season provides a break, a distraction, from the rhythm of life. That break can...
Arch Swings and Psalm 13
When I was a kid, I was both fascinated and intimidated by the giant steel arch-shaped swings that every amusement park seemed to have in the 1990’s. Part of that fascination had to do with how fun and how scary the ride looked. But part of it had to do with the...
Announcement of Dr. Tom Barbian’s Retirement and the Hiring of Dr. Brian Mesimer as the Next Executive Director
We are just leaving spring as summer approaches here in Columbia, and things are changing all around us. This time of year has often been a time change for the Christian Counseling Center as well. It was April 1, 1997 that the ministry of the Christian Counseling...
Happy Holidays: Myth or Reality?
How do you answer that question? Are the holidays a time of rejoicing, gratitude, and giving? Or, are they a time of pressure, stress, and expectations? The holiday season provides a break, a distraction, from the rhythm of life. That break can...
Main Office
1500 Lady Street
Columbia, SC 29201
Monday-Thursday- 8:30-5:00
Friday- 8:30-12:30
St. Andrews Office
St. Andrews Presbyterian
6952 St. Andrews Road
Columbia, SC 29212
Northeast Office
Crossings Community Church
2831 Clemson Road
Columbia, SC 29229
Sumter - Alice Drive
Westminster Presbyterian Church
230 Alice Drive
Sumter, SC 29150
Forest Acres Office
North Trenholm Baptist Church
6515 N. Trenholm Road, Columbia,
SC 29206.
Lexington Office
Rivercrest Presbyterian Church
4766 Sunset Blvd
Lexington, SC 29072
Sumter - Historic District
232 W Calhoun Street
Sumter, SC 29150
