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, 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.
Mark Hausfeld
Director of The Institute of Ministrial 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.