Our Counselors

                   

JONATHAN PALACI, Director and Pastoral Counselor

Jonathan serves as Director and Counselor of Heart To Heart Care & Counseling. He has been a pastor and counselor for over 15 years. 

Jonathan holds a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Counseling from Liberty University in Virginia and a B.A. in Organizational Leadership from Trinity University in Chicago. He is currently working on his second MA in Leadership from Southern Seminary. He is a Certified Counselor with the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) and is certified with Prepare Enrich, a marriage counseling organization. He also serves as an Emotional Health and Family Assessor for families with the North American Mission Board.

Jonathan's area of emphasis and passion is Marriage & Family Counseling. He leads marriage groups and retreats that help strengthen and restore marriage and families.

He also currently serves as the lead pastor of Gateway Baptist Church, Florida and has been married for over 15 years to wife Marilyn and has 3 children.

 

JOSE PRADO - Pastoral Counselor

Pastor Jose Prado serves as the lead pastor at Christ Family Church. He and his wife, Kristine, have four children. Jose graduated from The Sovereign Grace Ministries Pastors College in Gaithersburg, MA in 2010 as an ordained pastor. He serves as an evaluator of Church Planters for the Acts 29 Network and the North American Mission Board (NAMB) with the Southern Baptist Convention. He is a co-host of Saints and Sinners Unplugged, a podcast that provides Gospel conversations to a modern church desperately needing to return to the basic message of grace through Jesus Christ.

 

 

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