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 candidates to be credentialed as Certified Christian Conciliators®.

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 14 years in real estate the last 10 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 21 years. We have four children and six grandchildren aged nine to eighteen. We have lived in the Tyler, Texas area for 18 years and attend Sylvania Church. 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
• 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
• 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

Over the last three years we have received over 100 hours each of formal training as mediators. In 2007 we were accepted as candidates to be credentialed as Certified Christian Conciliators®. Hourly fees range from $75-225 and are by quotation depending upon complexity of the case.

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