Chris and Carol Green are are a husband-wife (community & marketplace) team with one calling, one purpose and one mission: Healing for Hearts and Homes. They have been faithfully married over 45 years and they have three adult sons, two daughters-in-love, two grandchildren, and a God-chosen few people throughout the world who call them 'mom and dad'. 

Marketplace missionaries like Chris and Carol, are ordained ministers (servants) commissioned by their local/ home church to work, serve and minister in a secular workplace which they view as a mission field, integrating faith with professional life to share the gospel. They often work in, or start businesses in, restricted-access countries or communities, focusing on relationships and integrity as a vital part of their evangelism strategy. 

Their professional distinctions have included earning Board-certification as master mental health coaches (BCMMHC) with emphasis on Marriage and Family (Carol), and Crisis Response and Trauma Care (Chris); certified master CARE-Readiness coaches and trainers (CMLC), serving as ordained ministers, marriage, family and ministry coaches and mentors, holistic wellness promoters, and human value advocates. They have also been educated and trained in Christian Servanthood, with Chris earning additional certifications in Biblical Counseling, Chaplaincy, and Business Administration.​

They are also professional writers. It's their passion. They are published authors, poets, contributing authors (in two international books/ one best-seller), and songwriters/ producers of audio songbooks. All of this creativity flows from their marriage, personal and professional life experiences, and inspiration from their relationship with God through Yeshua (aka Jesus) the Christ.​​

For their many accomplishments, and after decades of innovative work, they have received numerous awards and acknowledgements, highlighted by each being conferred a life-evidence and achievement, competency-based ministry doctorate (DSe), and two honorary doctorates (Hon.Causa). 

They have been advisors to international leaders; and have been consultants/ professors/ and humanitarian statesmen; and have served as ordained, licensed and commissioned ministers for more than 35 years. They view themselves simply as nameless and faceless servants in their community. 

Having been through times of income loss and homelessness; been targets of theft, fraud, betrayal, character smearing and swindle; been denied, detoured, delayed, disappointed, disillusioned, discouraged, and battled through burn out/ compassion fatigue, as well as the mental and emotional wear and tear that comes with life's setbacks; they know what it means to live in bitter seasons, and to have to pray, plan, wait, work and rise again; again and again. 

Their Story: Part of the Green's marketplace missionary deployment meant stepping outside of traditional religious settings and facilities to directly connect with and serve their community. Their community-supporting initiatives have included volunteering and hosting monthly workshops in an unemployment center, on-call life coaching support and monthly training for the staff of a women's emergency shelter, providing consultation and training for local human service organizations, and collaborating with various community outreach efforts. 

From that priceless wealth of experience, wisdom and insight, they launched a network of marketplace ministries. They founded C and C Connections, LLC, for their book/music publishing, and it is also their coaching and consulting business that helps organizations, ministries and community leaders build capacity in the Green's registered-trademark coaching model of CARE (Compassion, Authenticity, Respect and Empathy);  and the STEP Forward Life Institute, a teaching ministry that cultivates  and prepares the soil of hearts for the seeding of God's Word through Biblical Counsel, Coaching and Mentoring.  

Their collaboration with local and international partners has been essential to their work with the professionals and volunteers who labor in diverse and under-served communities, and all who are seeking to inspire or experience a higher quality of life and greater purpose for living. 

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Honors, Awards, Achievements and Acknowledgements 

·         Authors of 20 Books, 3 Training manuals, and over 50 online course curricula

·        Contributing authors in an International Best-Seller

·        Writers, producers and publishers of the Family Legacy Audio Songbooks (100= songs)

·        Founders and Lead Instructors of the STEP Forward Life Institute™

·        Founders and Spiritual Wellness Support Group Facilitators of the Fruitful Life Learning Community

·        Business Owners, Consultants and Life Coach Trainers of C and C Connections, LLC

·        Creators of the CARE-Ready Life Coaching® model: CARE-Readiness/ Training/ Certification 

·        Certified Chaplain Assistant (Chris)

·         Board Certified Master Mental Health Coaches (International Board of Christian Care)

·         Presidential Membership with the American Association of Christian Counselors

·         Global Senior Advisors and Searcherdemic Professors (UGCSI)

·         Certified Master Life Coaches (UGCSI)

·         Life-Based Civility Expert Award: 2026 World Civility/ Royal Civility Institute (United Kingdom)

·        Life Achievement Doctorates: Searcherdemics (2022)

·        ICN World Civility Icons: 2022 Global Educators of the Year (I Change Nations™)

·        Productive Business Civility Award for Global Civility Business Leadership (2021)

·        Inducted as Icons of Greatness in the 2021 World Book of Greatness (London, UK)

·        Honorary Doctorates: Society and Human Rights (2018)

·        International Humanitarian Statesmanship (ICN™, 2017)

·        United Way Volunteer of the Year Nominations (2017)

·        Honorary Doctorates: Christian Leadership and Humanities (2016)

·        Goodwill Ambassadors of World Peace and Civility (ICN™)

·        Certification: Biblical Counseling (AACC/ Light University, 2003)

·        Ordained Ministers and Affiliate Members of the Urban Pastors and Leaders Alliance

·        Founders Award (Metro Christian Worship Center, St. Louis, MO, USA)

·        Producer of the Year (Chris) - DHTV: 1999 Best Religious Cable Television Broadcast (St. Louis, MO, USA)

·        Outstanding Leadership Award (Metro Christian Worship Center, St. Louis, MO, USA)

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Chris and Carol's travels have taken them from coast to coast within the United States, to Hawaii, the Bahamas, Trinidad, the United Kingdom, and West Africa. 

They are a husband-wife team with one call, one purpose, and one mission: Healing in Hearts and Homes. Therefore, they are not aligned with any political party, religious dogma, or 'bandwagon' social movements.  They have been front-line participants within an international, under-the-radar phenomenon in which people of faith have been moving, by the thousands, outside of their traditions and buildings, to carry God's love, healing and hope to their personal and professional communities.