A. Christian V. Snyder III, PHD-IP, MDIV
CEO, Acts Ministry Inc 

Founder, Acts Ministry Inc 
Founder, PTSDheroes.org© and Good Samaritan News (GSN)©
Founder, The Hero Golf Tour™, Guardian Golf, LLC,© and Hero Days™ 

Christian holds a Masters Degree in Divinity; Masters Degree in Pastoral Counseling – Summa Cum Laude, Liberty University Theological Seminary; completed a Masters in Christian Leadership, a Ph.D. in Pastoral Counseling pending matriculation earning a 14 year research Ph.D. in Psychology – Traumatolgy IP, Northwestern University and Theological Seminary,  a Scholastic Dissertation Award, and author of The Christian Solution to Trauma, your brain was created for change, IP; Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Northern Arizona University, and holds a Masters Certification in Global Missions and a Masters Certification in Social Media from Liberty University. “Dr C” is not a medical doctor or licensed therapist with reliance on 14 years of research, successfully mentoring, and counseling hundreds of the most difficult cases of human trials. Acts Ministry is a counseling & mentoring ministry that is in co-operation with but reaches beyond current psychotherapies and psychiatric treatments. 
Christian is a past Charter President of Rotary International and a dedicated philanthropist throughout his professional career. He has dedicated his life to funding and servicing this absolute solution to every human trial. 

“Acts had been a calling for many years; but like so many of us that get caught up in the challenges of life only to miss the whole purpose of life.  The secret for any person to feel complete is to serve others.  The change from a focus on self to a trained practice of serving and mentoring others is a powerful awakening and healing for our Heroes with post-traumatic stress and virtually any other human condition.

When we replace those painful memory triggers with hope and purpose we bring healing to our Heroes who suffer from PTSD.  We can teach any Christian PTSD client to become a Discliper/Mentor and bring great purpose for the trauma that would otherwise destroy these great Heroes. The qualification for mentoring anyone with PTSD is when the mentor is also experienced with their own PTSD. Our true credentials for mentoring others begin with our own trials. My own trauma came from being falsely prosecuted in 1998, and under extreme duress, much like President Trump a local leftist DA twisting the law, and forced to lie pleading guilty to abstract business and professions code violations. The Lord knew that I would never voluntarily walk away from my “successful business” and by His loving hand, He stripped me of all worldly possessions, even lost my wife and son for years. And like so many times in Biblical history, He even changed my name to “Christian” through a messenger that was not even a believer! He knew exactly how to change my name and my heart. I needed to feel the similar persecution and imprisonment as our wrongly imprisoned Apostles. I needed to feel what it is like to be falsely accused as with our Lord and precious Saviour. I bled and nearly died in prison when I fought to stop a gang murder hit on a fellow inmate. I had crossed a line and my life was in great danger for years. My Lord would save me more than once with His amazing grace and supernatural interventions that have been confirmed and published in my upcoming book sharing dozens of stories about the heroes that came to me with devastaing triggers destroying their lives. The false imprisonment was necessary for God to finally become my first true ministry where such empirical wisdom could never have been accomplished in my “dream life” in our “free society;” where Christianity, including me, had become lukewarm and disobedient to The Great Commission. 

The Lord gave me this Ministry vision 27 years ago when I was thrown in jail, beaten and bleeding with a ruptured eardrum, cracked ribs, teeth knocked out, and after many hours of praying on a concrete floor, I was finally shackled and taken to their “hospital room” where the Lord saved me again. As a Type 1 diabetic, those years of pain and sickness due to a prison system’s refusal of proper medical treatment were all necessary (James 1:2-4) for the Lord to fully break my prideful spirit of independence, and lead me into seminary where I created this powerful and successful healing methodology. The Acts mentoring/discipleship solution to every human trial is a long-lost ancient New Testament teaching that psychology, religion, medicine, and science have largely missed. To completely heal from past trauma, fears, anxiety, anger, addictions, divorce, resentment, grief, and every human emotional weakness; we must discover God’s purpose in life’s trials. We must embrace 2 Corinthians 5:17 to become complete. We must address both the physiological and spiritual components of humanity.  When we deny that our DNA is embedded with a soul that needs to serve, then we become just another self-centered creature. We can become introverted and even narcissistic. In our own pain, we become useless towards caring about others and we simply cannot feel purpose without serving others. My PTSD clients actually heal me.”