Christine Petitta is from Michigan and has been married to her husband Gino for almost 30 years and has three adult children, a son-in-law, one grand-daughter and a grandson on the way. Her home church is Woodside Bible Church in Lapeer, MI. She has been active in serving the church over the last 20 years in a variety of ways and capacities as well as local ministries. She is a Certified Biblical Counselor through Association of Biblical Counselors with a Bible Diploma from Birmingham Bible Institute.  Her hope, prayer and intention with starting Shield Counseling is to encourage and grow others in the knowledge of God’s word while being able to expose the hearts of women and men so they can experience the depth of God’s love, see where mercy stoops down to us and know and experience His grace as divinely influences our heart towards security in salvation through the promise of the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 3:14-20.