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Biblical Counseling II
By Cathi Schuurmann

Study Section 1: Who am I? Who are you?

“For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you
because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Psalm 139:13-14

1.1 Connect

My name is Cathi Schuurmann, and I am the creator of this Biblical Counseling II course. The
plan was for me to teach this course at IBCZ at the same time my father, Richard Lauger, was
teaching another course. You’ve had him as a professor in the past (The Pentateuch and The
Poetical Books), and I will likely refer to him during this course. I taught Introduction to
Psychology at IBCZ for five summers (2012-2016) but did not teach the past three. I hope to
return next summer providing we all can be on campus together again.

It feels important that you know some background information about me during this distance learning
course, just as you would if we were on campus. I’ll spend a little time here telling you some
information that is helpful as we begin Biblical Counseling II. If we were on campus, I would also learn
about you. To me, this is an important part of the first day of class especially in a counseling course.
Who we are influences how we see others, which impacts how we help those around us. You will be
learning about me while you also reflect about yourself during this course.

1.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to summarize facts about my life.

2. Students should be able to identify significant people, places and events
from their lives.

3. Students should be able to show and explain these events on a life map.

1.3 Who Am I?

I grew up in a small town (population of 2,300) in the state of Wisconsin which is in the middle
of the United States. You can see its location on the map. Wisconsin is sparsely populated with
many small towns. We lived in an area that had many lakes, rivers and forests. It was about a
two hour car trip to a large city. I grew up in a small neighborhood with around twenty houses.
There were several kids in the neighborhood close to my age. We often played games outside
together, built forts in the woods and went swimming in a river close to our homes. Wisconsin is very
cold in the winter, so we would get several feet (60 centimeters or more!) of snow from November until

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