A prayer answered

Chuck and Sharon Betters’ world was turned upside down when they received the dreaded phone call that their 16 year old son, Mark and his friend Kelly were killed in a tragic car accident. They didn’t know if their hearts would keep beating, but God held them tightly in His grip. Often their encouragement came from others who were willing to help by stepping into the darkness and reminding them that God is sovereign and you can trust Him. That was the beginning of MARKINC, an acronym for “Making Abundant Riches Known In the Name of Christ” in honor of their son. The desire of this non-profit is to come alongside others who are hurting just as people further down the road in their grief journey had done for them. While the roots of this ministry were started in a painful, broken place, there has been tremendous beauty that has resulted in the help and hope that has been shared with millions of people around the world.

OUR VISION

Our vision is to offer true and lasting hope by sharing the Gospel to all who come to MARKINC for help, hope, and healing. Our desire is to anchor people’s hope in Jesus so that their faith in Him will bring healing and restoration. We want to encourage and equip others about God’s trustworthiness and faithfulness, no matter how difficult the circumstances, through the variety of free resources we produce and distribute. As a faith-based ministry, we are called and commanded to reach out to those who suffer; as a community of faith, we are instructed to bear one another’s burdens. Because God values hurting people, we must value them also.

In 2018 MARKINC started to investigate the possibility of launching a biblically counseling platform. Up to this point of almost 25 years of offering help and hope to the hurting through the free resources produced by MARKINC, we wanted to do more, we knew we needed to do more. Although our resources offer understanding, encouragement, and practical direction in some of life's darkest places of loss and grief, it did not offer the ability to have a one-on-one with the person reaching out to MARKINC to support moving forward by healing the past. After 2 years of praying, planning, and modifying the structure of what this would look like, God answered our prayers and Anchored Hope Biblical Counseling, a virtual platform became a reality that launched in 2020.

Trusting that this was God’s timing for offering the help and hope of the Gospel to hurting people through one-on-one counseling little did we know… the world would shut down from the COVID pandemic, forcing people all over the world to shelter in place, Anchored Hope was ready to help. Now, hurting people could access biblical counseling from the privacy of their own homes, not just in 2020, but now, four years later, this counseling platform has grown from 5 counselors to over 50 counselors who pour themselves into the lives of 500+ people, helping to direct them from hopelessness to hopefulness

From depression, grief, terminal illness, domestic abuse, caregiving, sexual abuse, broken relationships, and more - those dark places that trap people in overwhelming depression, consumed with worry, anxiety, and hopelessness now can have hope! A hope that can anchor them in the storms of life they face and help them to experience peace and joy again.