Transform 2018

Tom Anthony married Cami in 1991, and they have eight children (plus three “in-laws”). Tom has served in vocational ministry for twenty-seven years as a church planter, senior pastor, neighborhood pastor, and executive pastor. He currently serves on the senior staff with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. He is also the co-founder of the Neighborhood Collective, a national gathering of like-minded practitioners in the area of loving neighbors. Tom has been instrumental in implementing some of the life model exercises through over 300 small groups at Oak Hills Church. During his free time, he likes to read, walk, play sports, and hang out with family and neighbors.

Michael Sullivant is the Director of Relational Networks for Life Model Works. He is a church planter, pastor, author, poet and speaker. He has ministered in over 25 countries through over 40 years of public ministry. Michael and his wife, Terri, have 5 adult and married children and a growing number of grandchildren. His latest book is Thinking Biblically About the Life Model. Terri, recently published her first book, The Divine Invitation – Entering the Dance of Becoming Fully Alive.

Michael is involved with ministry and church leaders and change agents who are seeking to integrate more relational approaches to helping people in their groups mature and experience deeper and lasting identity transformation into the image of Jesus Christ.

Sungshim Loppnow is a marriage and family therapist and a spiritual director. Her passion is to help people cultivate a deep, authentic and life-giving relationship with God. She is especially called to support leaders to live out Jesus’ new commandment (John 13:34) in their marriage, parenting, family and friendships. Her background in the study of Christian Education equipped her with the skills to develop simple tools like Immanuel Journaling (IJ) in 2011. IJ was introduced in the book, Joyful Journey in 2015 and has helped many people into a profound experience with God’s love. She has been teaching Life Model concepts and training others in Immanuel Journaling in homes, churches and parachurch organizations internationally. She and her husband John have been running an Immanuel Journaling Practice every Monday in La Crescenta, CA. This is their laboratory to deepen their practice of brain skills and the Immanuel Lifestyle. John & Sungshim have two children, Zachariah (11) and Zoe (9).

Laura is a stay-at-home mom in San Antonio, TX with her husband of 11 years and two kids. Laura loves tea, shopping, and sitting with her neighbor-moms outside watching the kids play. Laura loves to encourage women on their path to deeper relationship with Jesus and others. Two years ago, Laura led a Joyful Journey book study with her neighbors and friends that transformed her life. She experienced the interactive presence of Jesus and authentic community. Currently, Laura gathers women for Immanuel Journaling nights and peace practice where they interact with Jesus and practice the relational skills.

Margaret Webb devoted herself to a ministry of emotional healing and maturation in the context of prayer. Margaret has studied with and learned from Dr. Jim Wilder, Dr. Karl Lehman, Chris and Jen Coursey, and Ed Khouri for the past 10 years, and it has changed her personal life as well as her ministry career. Using what she learned from these leaders, as well as her experience as a Christian Counselor, she created the Alive and Well, Inc. curriculum for leading people into the Immanuel Lifestyle and preparing prayer ministers to use the Immanuel Approach. Teaching, training, mentoring and consulting, she is committed to the vision of a network of lay and professional people-helpers bringing the care of souls into the local church. Her website is alivewell.org.

Jim Martini is the CEO of Life Model Works. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife Michele. Jim Martini is passionate about equipping a contagious body of Christ that can change the world.

Jim has known Dr. Jim Wilder for almost 30 years. Prior to his role as CEO, Jim served for 8 years on the Life Model Works Board of Directors.

One of Jim’s first Immanuel moments was a time when he was discerning his vocation as a young man. Despite his heart for evangelism and missions, he heard a clear call from God to marry, have children and support God’s people thorough a business career.

Jim has been married to Michele for over 30 years. They have 2 children. Mario traveled the world to record the Jesus Film in new languages and now does Campus Ministry with CRU at USC.  Luisa is on staff at her church in the Dallas area.

Jim’s business career has spanned the spectrum from owning several businesses to serving for 8 years as the national account manager to a very large healthcare organization, Kaiser Permanente, on behalf of $60 billion company, Siemens.

Rosalind Hervey is a teacher and prayer minister at Christ Healing Center in San Antonio, Texas. She spent 25 years as a teacher in both private and public schools from elementary school through high school. After leaving teaching, she became a small group pastor with a particular interest in combining healing prayer with the healing community environment of small groups. She is a trained Life Coach, and has been coaching churches, ministries and healing centers since 2007. Her favorite aspect of that coaching is helping groups of people discover their corporate, God-given identity through a process that is both systematic and dynamic. She and her husband, Lance Elliott, live in San Antonio and have a son in Austin and a daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters in the Chicago area.

Laura has been involved different prayer ministries since 2002 and became the Director of Spanish Ministries for Rapha God Ministries in 2012 where she currently serves. Over the past six years she has learned about the principles of Life Model Works and experienced sustainable transformation in her own life. As a result, she has incorporated the concepts into prayer sessions and training within the ministry. Later this year plans are to take these concepts to pastors in Guatemala together with Oak Hills Church. She enjoys witnessing the healing work of Jesus Christ in prayer sessions and teaching people the skills to live out their healing and ongoing transformation into the likeness of Christ. She lives in San Antonio along with her husband and two sons.

Jan has assisted in planting two Vineyard churches in San Antonio. She currently serves on the Senior Pastor’s Council and as Prayer Ministries Coordinator for Mission Vineyard Church of San Antonio. Her passion is to enable people to experience being known by God personally, not just know about Him. She and Michael have been married for 34 years. Their daughter and son-in-love live in Redding, CA.

Greg L. Hawkins is the former executive pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, where he served alongside Bill Hybels for over twenty years. He currently serves with Max Lucado and Randy Frazee on the leadership team at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. Prior to joining the staff of Willow Creek, Hawkins was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Greg and his wife live in the Texas hill country with their three children.

Ramie Miller is trained as a Manufacturing Engineer and Continuous Improvement Professional, and gets excited about fostering excellence in teams of people – both in the workplace and in the neighborhood. Raised in rural Western New York State, Ramie married native Texan Vanessa in 2004. Shortly thereafter the couple made their way to San Antonio.

Vanessa Miller has a knack for linking others within the neighborhood and is passionate about building multi-cultural and multi-generational communities. Grateful for the opportunity to stay-at-home, Vanessa uses her time to relationally connect and partner with those on the fringes. Their children David and Katie are currently in the 5th and 3rdgrade.

For the past eleven years, Vanessa and Ramie have slowly deepened their roots in Braun Station, a suburban neighborhood on San Antonio’s northwest side. In collaboration with Oak Hills, they help to lead a small community of believers in their neighborhood. In the last year, the group has been experimenting with the integration of Immanuel Prayer and the 19 relational brain skills into the life of their multigenerational community.

Be assured that Dave Mead is glad to be with you! Dave has been on staff with the Navigators for 31 years working on college campuses, Military installations, overseas, and as a Vice President overseeing the Navigator Military ministries. Currently, he is on the national leadership team of Nav Neighbors. He also had a 31 year career in the Army (23 years in the Reserves). He would say that he began to engage the right side of his brain a year ago at Thrive…and everything has changed! Now Dave wants to joyfully spend his next 31 years living out the Life Model. He is CEO of WeAlign, a coaching firm committed to personal transformation by guiding people to their unique design within a culture focused on strengths and fueled by joy. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the United States Military Academy and a Masters of Strategic Studies Degree from the U.S. Army War College.

Dr. Marcus Warner is the president of Deeper Walk International. He is the author of several books including his most recent work Rare Leadership (with Dr. Jim Wilder), Understanding the Wounded Heart, and What Every Believer Should Know About Spiritual Warfare. A former pastor and Bible Professor (Bethel College). Marcus has done training for Moody Church, Willow Creek Prison Ministry, Navigators and Oak Hills Church. He has also appeared on national radio programs such as Chris Fabry Live and Gary Chapman’s “Building Relationships. His specialty is taking the complex and making it easy to understand, remember and apply.

Chris Coursey has spent most of his ministry career applying and developing strategies for Life Model training. Chris is a pastoral counselor, leadership consultant, published author, and conference speaker. He speaks nationally and internationally, frequently visiting schools, ministries and churches throughout the United States and Canada in particular on growing and propagating relational joy. He has been a guest speaker at YWAM schools in Kona, Vancouver and New Jersey. He has also been an interview guest on several Christian radio shows in the US, speaking about the role that Gentle Protector Skills have for couples, leaders and pastors. Along with Dr. Jim Wilder, Chris co-authored Share Immanuel and The Healing Lifestyle. Dr. Wilder and Coursey also developed THRIVE Training, which are three interactive training tracks strategically designed for leaders to learn and spread the nineteen gentle protector skills. Along with his wife Jen, Chris now actively leads THRIVE Training events along with THRIVE Joy Rekindled Marriage Retreats, THRIVE Reach Your Potential with Joy weekend retreats, and seminars designed to equip leaders and pastors in the Nineteen Gentle Protector Skills with the Share Immanuel Lifestyle.

Chris earned his Associates Degree from Illinois Central College in 1995. In 1998, he transferred to Eastern Illinois State University to earn his B.A. in Sociology, with a minor in Psychology. Chris earned his M.T. from M.B.I. Yeshiva in Hampton, Virginia in 2007. Chris is an ordained minister with the Evangelical Church Alliance. Chris is currently the assistant director for Shepherd’s House, Inc. under the mentorship of Dr. Jim Wilder.

Charlotte Lehman, M.Div. is extremely grateful to have been shaped by the strong and loving multi-generational community of Jesus’ followers at Reba Place Church (RPC) of Evanston, IL. In 2009, she became Lead Pastor and has been having an awesome adventure in learning the art of leadership ever since.

She attributes much of her success in life and ministry to an Immanuel Lifestyle and the 19-Relational Brain Skills taught by Life Model Works. Charoltte has enjoyed seeing Reba Place Church thrive in the application of these principles to its congregational life!

Charlotte is married to Dr. Karl Lehman, a Christian, psychiatrist and leader in the field of faith-based emotional healing, and author of The Immanuel Approach.

Amy Pierson is the founder of Burning Heart Workshops, and former executive director of the Spiritual Formation Alliance. She is a 2014 graduate of the Renovate Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation/Santa Barbara Cohort. Amy received her Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and Advertising from the University of Colorado, Boulder and now lives in the Denver area with her husband, Bill, and a ridiculous but sincere golden retriever. As an empty-nester mom of daughters, Whitney and Haley, she writes, speaks, gathers and enjoys making things with other creative souls.

Amy is a content developer, trainer, and consultant on staff with Alive & Well, Inc. As consultant, she creates monthly training events for the Online Practice Community with THRIVEtoday, creates training materials for Life Model Works, and leads the Certified Journey Group Leadership Community with Deeper Walk International. She co-authored the book Relational Skills in the Bible with Chris Coursey, and wrote the Journey Group curriculum. She is a relational skills trainer with THRIVEtoday.

Dr. Jim Wilder has been training leaders and counselors for over 30 years on five continents. Jim grew up in South America and is bilingual (English/Spanish). He is the author of nineteen books with a strong focus on maturity and relational skills. His coauthored book, Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You, has sold over 100,000 copies and is printed in eleven languages. Wilder has published numerous articles and developed four sets of video and relational leadership training. Dr. Wilder has served as a guest lecturer at Fuller Seminary, Biola, Talbot Seminary, Point Loma University, Montreat College, Tyndale Seminary and elsewhere.