About Conflicts Within: A Journey Through Real and Lasting Change
Conflicts Within: A Journey through Real and Lasting Change is a transformative and insightful book for those seeking to overcome inner struggles and experience lasting peace. This book confronts unresolved conflicts by combining practical/skill-building knowledge with real-life experiences, resulting in a book that helps each reader courageously face conflicts within and with others. Your knowledge base will increase, your life application skills will be strengthened, and your spiritual growth will blossom. This book is not simply based upon knowledge and skill; the author, Elton L. Young, opens a personal window and allows the reader to see and feel some of what he experienced in his life, like the cancer diagnosis and eventual death of his wife Brenda after 22 years of companionship. The writer was first comforted and then challenged by God to turn his pain into a blessing for others. As a result, Conflicts Within: A Journey through Real and Lasting Change was born.
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Author Bio:
Elton L Young is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the youngest child of James Fletcher and Frances Marie Young, the husband of the late Brenda Faye Bryant Young, and the proud father of six beautiful daughters. Elton L Young became a Christian at the age of twelve (12) and received his ministerial calling at the age of sixteen (16). In 1980, he graduated from Brainerd High School (Go Panthers). Immediately following his high school graduation, he joined the United States Marine Corps, where he served honorably as an Artillery Weapons Specialist, Administrative Assistant, and Assistant to the Office of the Chaplaincy (1980-1984). After being honorably discharged from the military, Elton L. Young returned to his native home of Chattanooga, Tennessee, where, under the tutelage of Dr. Virgil J Caldwell, he developed his style of preaching and teaching as he learned how to oversee the administrative duties of a church. Under Dr. Caldwell's leadership, Elton L Young built up his confidence, developed resiliency, and improved his decision-making and problem-solving skills as he overcame many of life's obstacles.
In 1995, Elton L. Young graduated from Christian Bible College and Seminary, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biblical Counseling and Psychology and a Master of Arts degree in Christian Counseling and Psychology, 1999. Academic studies have earned him past licensure as a Family Mediator and Alcohol and Drug Relapse Prevention Specialist. Today, he maintains certification as a Christian Counseling Therapist and Prepare-Enrich Facilitator.
Elton L Young has successfully performed numerous religious and civic duties by serving eight years as President of the City Wide Evangelistic Task Force of Greater Chattanooga, four years as Chaplain of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department (Sheriff H.Q. Evatt’s Administration), Board Commissioner with the Chattanooga Housing Authority, Board Member of the Domestic Violence Coalition of Greater Chattanooga and the Southeast Tennessee Association for Child Care, faculty teacher for the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education (2000-2013), President of LifeLine Ministries, CRS, Inc. (2002-Present), Commentary Writer for the Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist Convention (2005-2010), and published his first book, Conflicts Within, A Journey through Real and Lasting Change (2024) Christian Faith Publishing.
In 2014, Elton L Young became senior pastor of Mount Paran Missionary Baptist Church, where he served faithfully for four years (2014-2018). In 2016, he was elected Moderator of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County BME District Association where honorably served eight (8) years (2016-2024), and he served one year (2018-2019) as Interim Pastor of New Monumental Baptist Church during which time he successfully stabilized the congregation as he led the church in calling a new pastor. He relocated to the Atlanta/North Georgia area in 2019 and was led by God to plant LifePoint, A Transformational Church, where he currently serves as senior pastor.
Elton L Young has been recognized for both religious and civic duties that include receiving the Gratitude Award (2024) Chattanooga-Hamilton County BME District Association, Distinguished Military Service Award (2015) Brainerd High School, Outstanding Service Recognition (2005) Advanced Therapeutic Concepts, East TN Families Team Member of the Quarter Award (2004) Youth Villages, Focus Award (2000) Family and Children’s Services, Outstanding Community Service Award (1998) HYKSOS Court 112, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award (1997) Unity Group of Greater Chattanooga, and the Man of the Year Award (1994) New Monumental Baptist Church.
Elton L. Young gives glory first to God for all accomplishments and is eternally grateful for the love and support he's received from his family, his father in the ministry, the late-great Dr. Virgil J. Caldwell, and his mentor, the late-great Dr. Cameron Madison Alexander.
To God be the glory for his many blessings.
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