Meet the IMW Team
Mark Hausfeld
Founder & Executive Director
The Institute of Ministerial Wholeness
Dr. Mark Hausfeld has more than thirty years of pastoral and missionary experience, both in the United States and abroad. He is passionate about spiritual direction, leading retreats, and holistic formation so that ministers, missionaries, and those in the marketplace may be whole in Christ.
Stephanie Bradshaw Smith
Associate Director
The Institute of Ministerial Wholeness
Rev. Stephanie Smith is an ordained minister serving in the Seattle Metro area. A Certified Spiritual Director and seasoned mentor, she has invested in leaders around the world. Stephanie brings decades of experience in leadership, teaching, spiritual direction and mentoring, and church planting. She is passionate about spiritual health and transformation, combining visionary thinking with a grounded, relational approach.
Our Mission
The Institute for Ministerial Wholeness (IMW) is committed to deepening the holistic health of ministers in body, mind, soul, and spirit with emphasis on total wellbeing as essential for consistent, vibrant, relevant, and long-lasting Kingdom impact. "I take care of everyone else but who's going to take care of me?" As Christ's disciples, we are to steward every aspect of our lives. In Lifeway Research’s “2022 Greatest Needs of Pastors” study, more than 200 pastors identified 44 needs they face in ministry. Those needs were divided into seven categories. Another 1,000 pastors were surveyed to determine how common each need was in pastoral ministry across the U.S. Here are the top needs: - People’s apathy or lack of commitment: 75% - Consistency in personal prayer: 72% - Friendship and fellowship with others: 69% - Consistency in Bible reading not related to sermon or teaching preparation: 68% - Trusting God: 66% - Relationships with other pastors: 64% - Consistency in taking a Sabbath: 64% - Stress: 63% - Confessing and repenting from personal sin: 61% - Consistency exercising: 59% - Avoiding over-commitment and overwork: 55% - Time management: 51% The IMW is unique in its approach to the health and wellbeing of those in vocational ministry. No other institute like it at the time of this event exists.
Trusted Counselors, Psychologists, and Spiritual Directors
Eve Austin
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
After growing up in Northern California and completing university, Eve Austin enjoyed 20 years living in Tajikistan and Turkey with her family. Eve transitioned into counseling in 2013 and worked abroad with culturally diverse populations including refugees and survivors of human trafficking. Her life and work overseas provide her with understanding and empathy to journey with clients from diverse backgrounds through the challenges of transition, relocation and cultural adjustment. Eve holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a California teaching credential from Bethany University, and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology is from Simpson University. In her free time, she enjoys family time, outdoor activities, reading, traveling, eating unique foods and connection with her church, community, and friends.
Brian Blake
Pastoral Care Chaplain and Spiritual Director
Brian Blake is a Veteran Army Chaplain, pastoral care chaplain, spiritual director, husband, father, farmer, and homesteader with more than two decades of ministry leadership and pastoral care experience. An ordained minister with the Assemblies of God, he has served in diverse ministry and military contexts around the world, including deployments to Afghanistan and assignments in Europe and Korea. Brian holds degrees from the U.S. Military Academy and the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, a certificate in spiritual direction from The King’s Seminary, and is pursuing doctoral studies in Spiritual Formation and Direction.
Since 2018, Brian’s own journey has been deeply shaped by spiritual direction while navigating PTSD, compassion fatigue, occupational burnout, and the unexpected death of his infant son following previous experiences of pregnancy loss. Through much wrestling with God and his interior life, he discovered a deep comfort that continues to shape his life and ministry. As a chaplain and spiritual director, Brian offers a grounded, prayerful space where people can discern the movements of the Holy Spirit and experience God’s presence in the midst of both joys and travails. He especially enjoys supporting clergy and clergy families, those navigating grief and burnout, and people seeking healing, growth, or wrestling with faith. Together with his wife, Aimee, and their daughters, he enjoys life on their Central Texas farm, cultivating a life connected to both creation and the Creator.
Dr. Beth Davis
Ordained Minister - BCC - Pastoral Counselor
Beth Davis is an ordained minister, board-certified health care chaplain (BCC), and pastoral counselor. She holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary and has specialized training in grief support, trauma recovery, and crisis debriefing. During her missionary career Beth worked in Vietnam, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Belgium. She also served as director of International HealthCare Ministries, an organization dedicated to promoting world-wide wholistic health and disaster response. In recent years Beth and her husband, Nathan, have traveled to over 80 countries facilitating seminars on spiritual formation and emotional resilience, and disaster preparedness.
Dr. Nathan Davis
Psychologist - Counselor
Nathan Davis grew up in Japan, the son of missionaries Dr. Jim and Genevieve Davis. Before becoming a missionary, he served the U.S. Air Force as a psychologist for 29 years. Upon retirement, he joined AGWM as a missionary, establishing member care for missionaries, and conducting trauma intervention at international locations suffering from natural disasters. He and his wife, Beth, have published ten books addressing member care needs for missionaries and ministers. Nathan serves as counselor and facilitator for seminars on resilience, relationship enhancement, trauma debriefing, transition, and spiritual formation.
Dr. Grant Jones
Licensed Psychologist
Grant Jones is a licensed psychologist of 34 years practicing at Gateway Counseling Center, Springfield, MO and is professor emeritus at Evangel University where he taught for 36 years. He currently is developing a non-profit called Shame No More, a counseling entity providing group trauma therapy to Project Rescue centers and Teen Challenge centers in Kenya. As a psychologist, he specializes in the treatment of PTSD, dissociative disorders, depression, spiritual abuse, and religious/spiritual issues. He is a missionary kid (MK) from parents Marge and Ernie Jones who served in Malawi, Senegal and Zaire. His wife, Rita, is an MK from Bangla Desh and Fiji Islands. Her parents were Orville and Yvonne Carlson. He and Rita have two sons and two daughters-in-law and four grandchildren.
Besides developing and empirically studying his trauma model, the Jones Trauma Model (JTM), he is researching how self-care enhances ministerial work and personal well-being as well as the effects of spiritual abuse on missionaries and evangelical church congregants. Regarding his work with the JTM, used across eight different Teen Challenge samples for five years, the group JTM has significantly reduced trauma symptoms in a two day program, even with three women samples. His future goal and future endeavor is to implement this model in Teen Challenge facilities.
Mary Yerkes
Spiritual Director
Mary Yerkes is a Certified Spiritual Director and a trained Ignatian Director with more than 30 years of ministry experience. Known for her warm presence and keen discernment, she specializes in creating unhurried, prayerful spaces where leaders can pause, reflect, and recognize God's movement in their lives. Her life’s work is rooted in a profound passion for spiritual transformation and emotionally healthy spirituality. She will begin offering supervision in spiritual direction in Spring 2027.
After studying writing at the University of Maryland, she built a 30-year career as a professional writer, specializing in ghostwriting for senior executives. Her extensive publishing history includes articles in AG News, Focus on the Family, Conversations Journal, CBN.com, Christianity Today’s Christian Women Leaders, and the Journal of Biblical Counseling. Notably, her expertise is widely recognized—her article on living well with chronic illness, for instance, was adopted as a seminary teaching resource.
Mary lives on a 10-acre hobby farm in North Carolina, where she enjoys writing, British mysteries, and cultivating a contemplative lifestyle. She has one adult son and a daughter-in-law, who live in New Jersey.
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Current IMW Board Members:
Rev. Jim Benton
Dr. Joann Butrin
George Commons
Dr. Joey Ellis
Rev. Robert Melton
Rev. Andrea Sarafan