Who we are

Jim and Dana Johnson are sinners saved by grace and servants of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are the owners of Christian Mediation Services LLC and Certified Christian Conciliators™. We are the co-ordinators of the East Texas Peacemaker Network.

Background - Jim

I have over 40 years experience as an entrepreneur and business manager. I attended the UCLA Business School with an emphasis in marketing and accounting. Among my various business activities I have launched and managed businesses involved in property management, PC computing and graphic arts, printing, manufacturing, distribution, and Christian book publishing. In between I developed and marketed a 1100 acre residential development.

My avocational experience includes three years leading Promise Keepers in East Texas and 20 years leading and facilitating small group bible studies.

Background - Dana

I have 16 years experience with IBM, 8 in management. I followed that with 16 years in real estate the last 12 as owner/broker of my own firm. I graduated summa-cum-laude from University of Texas at Dallas in Business Administration. I have been active in the business community serving as the President of the Greater Tyler Association of Realtors™.

In the church I served with my husband as co-leader of adult ministries at South Coast Community Church and later led women’s ministry at Grace Community Church.

Our history:

We have been married 22 years. We have four children and six grandchildren aged twelve to twenty. We have lived in the Tyler, Texas area for 20 years and attend a local bible church where we lead the Reconciliation Team. We have both experienced the trauma of earlier divorces so we can offer firsthand assurance of God’s grace and full redemption.

Our Training:

Jim Johnson --
Peacemaker Ministries and Institute for Christian Conciliation (ICC) Training completed

• General Prerequisites:
  Personal Peacemaking
  Peacemaker Church
  Conflict Coaching  May 2006
  Mediation Practicum  Sept 2006
• Advanced Training:
  Reconciling Marital Conflict Practicum  June 2007
  ICC Certification Training  Sept 2007
  Reconciling Church Conflict Practicum  Sept 2008
• Additional Advanced Courses
  Church Conflict:
  Intervening in Church Conflict- Summary  Oct 2005
  Reconciling Congregational Conflict - an overview  Sept 2006
  Wounded in The Church  Sept 2006
  Mediating in Cases of Spiritual Abuse   Sept 2007
  Who Runs The Church? Church Polity   Oct 2005
  Conflict Coaching and Mediation in a Church Crisis  Sept 2007
  Business:
  Mediating Business and Commercial Disputes  Sept 2006
  Specialty:
  Challenges of Mediating with a Non-believer  Sept 2007
  Peacemaker Church Assessment Tool  Oct 2005
  Powerful Peacemaking Presentations  Sept 2006
  Convening Mediation Through Conflict Coaching   Sept 2006
  Marriage:
  Difficult Situations in Mediation  Sept 2006
  Mediating the Miserable Christian Marriage   Sept 2007
  Advanced Conflict Coaching - Reframing Questions to get to the Heart of Conflict  Sept 2006

Dana Johnson --
Peacemaker Ministries and Institute for Christian Conciliation (ICC) Training completed

• General Prerequisites:
  Personal Peacemaking
  Peacemaker Church
  Conflict Coaching  Sept 2005
  Conflict Coaching  May 2006
  Mediation Practicum  Sept 2006
• Advanced Training :
  Reconciling Marital Conflict Practicum  June 2007
  ICC Certification Training  Sept 2007
  Reconciling Church Conflict Practicum  Sept 2008
• Additional Advanced Courses
  Church Conflict
  Mediating in Cases of Spiritual Abuse   Sept 2007
  Conflict Coaching and Mediation in a Church Crisis  Sept 2007
  Reconciling Congregational Conflict - an overview  Sept 2006
  Wounded in the Church  Sept 2006
• Business:
  Mediating Business and Commercial Disputes  Sept 2006
• Specialty:
  Challenges of Mediating with a Non-believer  Sept 2007
  Powerful Peacemaking Presentations  Sept 2006
  Difficult Situations in Mediation  Sept 2006
• Marriage:
  Mediating the Miserable Christian Marriage   Sept 2007
  Advanced Conflict Coaching - Reframing Questions to get to the Heart of Conflict  Sept 2006
  Convening Mediation Through Conflict Coaching   Sept 2006

We are Certified Christian Conciliators™ and accountable to the ICC division of Peacemaker Ministries. Hourly fees range from $75-225 and are by quotation depending upon complexity of the case.

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