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While serving in various church and ministry related positions in the 1980's, Evan Parks became increasingly aware of the need for people in ministry to have a safe place to turn for counseling and support. These experiences taught him that many leaders do not get the help they need when facing stress, burnout and depression.  Based on his desire to help leaders, he directed his professional training toward providing psychological services and training to leaders in ministry.  When in graduate school, he began to offer psychological screening for missionary agencies and counsel Christian workers who had returned to the USA.  In 1999, when leading marriage seminars in Central Europe, SEND International asked him to establish a permanent care facility in Europe.  In 2001, Evan and his family moved to Budapest, Hungary and in 2003 began the work of the Care Center.  Since that time, he has traveled throughout Central Europe, Ukraine and Central Asia providing workshops and seminars for mission leaders and national pastors.  

 

Dr. Evan Parks 



Dr. Parks graduated from Cedarville College in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in theology.  In 1987, he completed a Master’s of Arts Degree in psychology from Western Michigan University and worked for the next two years at a community mental health clinic in Michigan.  After moving to Chicago in 1989, he started his work toward his doctorate in clinical psychology at the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology.  In 1993, Evan graduated and began a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, where he continued doing research, writing for professional journals, and teaching at the medical school.

 

After opening a private practice, he became the Clinical Director of Christian Family Services in 1995.  He also taught psychology as an adjunct professor at Michigan Theological Seminary until December of 2000. Dr. Parks is married and has two children. 

 

Currently, Evan is an adjunct professor at Liberty University, where he teaches in the Graduate School for Counseling.  He serves with SEND International.