Mark Hausfeld
Director of 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 wholistic formation that ministers, missionaries and those in the marketplace may be whole in Christ.
Experience
2018-Present
Mark has served and continues to focus his call as a Spiritual Director, leads Spiritual Formation retreats, is a missions speaker for churches and conferences, missiologist with Assemblies of God World Missions, writer, and educator in the church and graduate institutions in the United States and globally.
2015-2017
Mark became president of the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri on July 1, 2015, where he served for two years. He recommended to the Seminary Board of Advisors and the Evangel University Board of Trustees that his position as President be eliminated that the seminary may be led by the Dean of the Seminary since the consolidation of Evangel University, Central Bible College and the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (AGTS) was complete. The Board of Trustees agreed with the recommendation.
2009-2015
Dr. Hausfeld served as the international director of Global Initiative: Reaching Muslim Peoples. As director, Mark collaborated with national churches around the world, AGWM regions, and local churches in the United States to equip and mobilize them to reach Muslims everywhere.
2007-2008
Mark was the second J. Philip Hogan Chair of World Missions at AGTS. His three Hogan lectures and monograph focused on Islam in America: Reaching Diaspora Muslims through the Local Church. He currently serves as adjunct professor of Urban and Islamic Studies at AGTS and teaches at other universities, seminaries and graduate schools in the United States and globally. He started and directed the seminary’s Center for Islamic Studies in 2008. He continues to serve as professor of Urban and Islamic Studies for AGTS.
2000-2008
Mark served as the Area Director for Central Eurasia. In this role, he provided pastoral care, strategic consultation, and administration for missionaries and national leaders in the region’s 10 Muslim-majority countries at the heart of the “10/40 Window,” the least reached area of the world.
1995-2001
Mark and his wife, Lynda, served as AGWM missionaries in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. During that time, they started Teen Challenge Pakistan and assisted in two indigenous church plants. Prior to becoming AGWM missionaries, Mark pioneered and pastored an inner city, multi-cultural church on the south side of Chicago for ten years.
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.
Dr. Beth Davis
Ordained Minister - BCC - Pastoral Counselor
Dr. 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.
Nathan Davis
Psychologist - Counselor
Nathan 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.
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.