About The Author

Born Roger Allen Eyman in a relatively small town of Canton, Illinois, in the central part of the state in 1942. His father was a modestly prosperous carpenter working for his grandfather, a local general contractor. His mother was a hard-working and popular mother of two boys and one girl. The Eyman children were normal children with a sense of adventure spending a lot of time camping and fishing. The children were trained to work hard at whatever they were doing and to do the job right and to advance themselves through higher education. The family attended diverse churches with Roger attending Trinity Lutheran Church and served there as an alter boy for five years.

After graduating from Orange Coast Jr. College in Orange, California with a psychology major, Roger went to California State University in Los Angeles, California continuing with his major in clinical psychology and a minor in cultural anthropology. After his ordination in 1987 he took up missionary work with Native Americans in Arizona, Alaska, and Canada. He took his doctorate in ministry from Bethany in Alabama in 1990 graduating summa cum laude.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Courses taken in Clinical Psychology and Counseling at
C.S.U.

1. Psych 1A Introduction to Psychology
2. Psych 1B General Psychology
3. PSY 308 Contemporary Psychology
4. PSY 302 Statistical Methods for Psychology
5. PSY 410A Abnormal Psychology
6. PSY 410B Abnormal Psychology
7. PSY 416 History of Psychology
8. PSY 412A Human Development
9. PSY 412B Human Development
10. PSY 418A Personality
11. PSY 423 Motivation & Emotion
12. PSY 304A Experimental Psychology
13. PSY 304B Experimental Psychology
14. PSY 499 Experimental Psychology Independent Study
15. PSY 326 Factors of Marriage
16. PSY 448 Psychology of Labor-Management Relations
17. PSY 401 Physiological Psychology
18. PSY 406 Mental Retardation
19. PSY 424A Psychology of Learning
20. PSY 438 Intermediate Clinical Psychology
21. PSY 430 Psychological Measurement
22. PSY 442 Industrial Psychology
23. PSY 441 Small Group Behavior
24. PSY 446 Employment Psychology

Graduate & Post Graduate Seminary Work
at B.T.S. & L.U.

Stress and Trauma Care

Acute Stress and Trauma

Introduction to Cris Counseling
Grief, Loss and Complicated Grief
Trauma and Abuse
Anxiety and Depression
Trauma and Attachment
Counseling Strategies Panel

Basic Crises Intervention

Impact Dynamics of Crisis and Trauma
Methods and Techniques for Immediate Response
Peer Support and Accountability
Survivor Guilt and Fostering Resiliency
Managing the High Cost of Care
Community Response and Cultural Differences

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Signs and Symptoms of PTSD
Risk Factors for PTSD
Trauma and Addiction
Suicide Assessment and Prevention
Treatment Protocols for PTSD
The Journey from Trauma to Transformation - A Soldiers story

Military Applications

War, Deadly Force and the Bible
The Realties of Military Service on the Service Member
The Realties of Military Life for Families
The Combat Trauma Spectrum
Military Medical System, Veterans Medical System and Related Issues
Assessment and Treatment Protocols

Spiritual Solutions

Theology of Suffering
The Role of the Chaplin
The Role of the Family as a Platform for Spiritual Healing
The Role of the Church and the Para-Church
The Role of the Counselor and the Community
From Trauma to Transformation - A Team Approach

Hope Coaching

Introduction to Hope Coaching
The Power of Perspective
Understanding Our Differences – Personalities and Coping
Grieving the Loss of the Way Things Were
Creating Intimacy with God and Others Through Difficult Times
Good Days, Bad Days and Better Days
Taking Care of Business
The Power of Encouragement – A Key to Hope Coaching
Living With Uncertainty
Caregivers Caring for Themselves – Preventing Compassion Fatigue
A Theology of Suffering and Hope – Bringing Balance
Celebrating Life
Living With Uncertainty
Tough Questions Cancer Survivors Ask

After a brief and successful stint at a mission church on a Papago reservation in Arizona and moved on to Alaska where he set up numerous mission churches in the arctic areas in Alaska and Canada. Roger wrote the training program for all of those churches and ordained all of the pastors who pastured them. Later he expanded into Mexico, Singapore and Indonesia.

For all of his concerns about worldly issues, Dr. Eyman was above all a super naturalist, who fervently believed that God is love, that miracles happen, and that the Lutheran Church best taught the divinely revealed truths about life and death.

Although founder of now 38 mission churches around the world, Roger has shied away from ostentatious titles such as Bishop preferring to remain humbly in the background.

Because of his outstanding contribution to the missionary world of evangelism and humanitary contributions, he is listed in the presigious Marquis publications;

Who's Who in America,New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who(WhoAm 54)
Who's Who in Religion. Fourth edition, Wilmette, IL: Marquis Who's Who (WhoRel 4)
Who's Who in the West(R, 27th edition, New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who(WhoWest 27)

Dr Eyman still gives assistance to the pastors he trained with administrative visits and assists with pastoral counseling for premarital, marital, and family problems. He avails himself for counseling those with post traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) from loss of family members and for military personnel suffering from problems related to their war experiences.

Types of Counseling We Undertake

Premarital

For those seeking nuptials in the Church must undergo at least three sessions; one alone for each and one with both participants together. Lutheran Pastors are not allowed to join in Holy Matrimony anyone the are not convinced should be married under our Church Doctrine.

Post-Marital

For those problems arising out of a marital relationship.

Family

Problems with interrelationships in the family unit as a whole.

Grief

After the death of a loved one most people begin a grieving process and when they do not or do so improperly, outside intervention is sometimes a wise action. Grief is a part of life and learning to grieve is learning to live. One of the functions of the counselor to help cope with death, loss, or major life problems of loved ones.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Definition - An anxiety disorder that occurs after exposure to a traumatic event which triggers memories of the traumatic event and is characterized by intense fear, helplessness, and horror. Being a Lutheran Pastor and mental health professional I have worked with this from military personnel returning home from deployment in a war zone and those in the civilian life who were exposed to other types of trauma.

It has long been our official position that counseling of our parishioners and occasionally others outside of our church to not go beyond ten or twelve sessions. We know that if any problem goes beyond that, more in-depth counseling by those who's profession it is to handle those kinds of problems best serve those we serve. We do have in most of the locals we work in an established network of Christian Counselors to make a referral to.

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