Our Vision for 2025
Building Out the Life Model Works Puzzle
Requests for training are pouring in from all corners, and we need your support to train Life Model Works Ambassadors who can carry this transformative message into different nations, cultures, and generations!
Our impact in Spanish-speaking countries is exploding! We’re currently training women in South America who are eager to bring the Life Model to their communities. To continue offering these no-cost trainings, we rely on support to sustain key team members like Claudia Hendricks. And the reach doesn’t stop there—we’ve also trained leaders in Uganda, South Africa, and believers in closed countries who are hungry for relational wholeness.
Closer to home, we’re equipping student leaders at Westmont College and Colorado Christian University, and building relationships with organizations like Brineknit as they share life-changing, relational tools with Gen Z.
We’re also revamping JoyStream with fresh content and creating bite-sized resources for individuals and small groups, making the Life Model more accessible than ever. And to top it all off, we’re celebrating the release of the Life Model Informed Therapy Curriculum, a groundbreaking tool developed by Monica Mouer of the CFT Institute using Life Model Works resources.
We invite you to join our vision of expanding the reach of the Life Model as we steward these pieces of the puzzle so believers all over the world can experience transformational discipleship into the likeness of Christ!
Get to know the pieces of the Life Model Works puzzle as we continue our work into 2025.
When you support Life Model Works, you support our... TRAINERS
Michel Hendricks
Director of Consulting
The most meaningful experience in 2024 was... “Equipping YWAM mission bases in different parts of the world and other ministries in closed countries with relational training.”
Consulting ministries in the US with spiritual and relational formation practices.
Training pastors in South Africa, and YWAM missionaries in South America and Switzerland.
Equipping believers in closed countries with relational discipleship
Expanding relational discipleship to Gen Z through student leader trainings on college campuses.
Claudia Hendricks
Director of International Relations
The most meaningful experience in 2024 was... “hearing the testimonies from Arbol de Justicia as the children learn to value their identity.”
Training staff at Arbol de Justicia as they pass on emotional wholeness to at-risk families in Mexico.
Mentoring YWAM Staff in Chile.
Training women in Argentina to bring Life Model concepts to churches and ministries.
Equipping missionaries in Colombia with relational wholeness.
Michael Sullivant
Director of Relational Networks
The most meaningful experience in 2024 was... “the opportunity to spread the joy of Jesus to folks who haven’t met Him yet.”
Mentoring business and ministry leaders.
Helping believers recover joy and peace after church hurt.
Facilitating Leader’s Collectives and Study Groups.
Training leaders in the TIKKUN Global Messianic Movement, Antioch International Movement, and doctoral students.
Introducing secular medical residents to neurotheology and passing the peace.
When you support Life Model Works, you support our... RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
We regularly create new, helpful tools so individuals, families, and church groups can grow in relational and spiritual wholeness! Check out these tools created in 2024 to help individual and groups grow at their own pace.
Maturity Pathways
Looking Inside Together Study Guide
The Hearing Heart App
JoyQ 2.0
When you support Life Model Works, you support our... SCHOLARSHIPS
Scholarships provide for those who long to pursue wholeness but face financial barriers. In 2024, Life Model Works awarded over $46,646.77 in scholarships. Your support ensures that everyone has the chance to emotionally thrive through the following resources:
Study Groups - Online courses where participants can start their journey toward relational wholeness.
Seminars - Online spaces where people can learn in-depth about specific Life Model concepts.
Conferences- In-person events where people learn how to practically live the Life Model and connect with other believers pursuing relational wholeness.
Leader’s Collectives - A year-long cohort for leaders to be equipped to create healthy cultures in their sphere of influence.
Consulting* - A discipleship program for Christian groups around the world - from Uganda to the US - who are hungry for transformation.
*Almost all the consulting done in countries outside the US is offered for free or very low cost. Donations alone sustain the salary for our Director of International Relations, Claudia Hendricks, who is actively expanding the reach of the Life Model in several countries.
A Message from Marlene Allen & Jim Wilder
My Dear Family,
At the end of 2023, we laid our goals before the Lord. He met us through open doors and began putting puzzle pieces together. Through our staff's readiness to receive and train the hungry, the young were engaged, and tools for relational Christianity spread like wildfire to the nations. Now, in 2025, we're continuing to shepherd the shepherds through increased consulting requests, mentoring leaders, and partnering with other organizations to train therapists. Thanks to your generosity, the puzzle is coming together as believers worldwide experience deeper belonging with God and His people.
Blessings of joy and peace,
Marlene Allen
Executive Director
My Dear Family,
At the end of 2023, we laid our goals before the Lord. He met us through open doors and began putting puzzle pieces together. Through our staff's readiness to receive and train the hungry, the young were engaged, and tools for relational Christianity spread like wildfire to the nations. Now, in 2025, we're continuing to shepherd the shepherds through increased consulting requests, mentoring leaders, and partnering with other organizations to train therapists. Thanks to your generosity, the puzzle is coming together as believers worldwide experience deeper belonging with God and His people.
Blessings of joy and peace,
Marlene Allen
Executive Director
Dear Life Model Family,
When Jesus was forming disciples, He had them share a common purse so they would realize their resources and life are shared. Life Model Works thrives because of your shared resources, and this year the fruit includes an updated, tested, and validated JoyQ assessment. Joy, peace, pseudo-joy, and other scales are now backed by research. Your support allows us to further develop resources like JoyQ as well as create new ones. We are thankful for your generosity!
Blessings,
Jim Wilder
Neurotheologian
Dear Life Model Family,
When Jesus was forming disciples, He had them share a common purse so they would realize their resources and life are shared. Life Model Works thrives because of your shared resources, and this year the fruit includes an updated, tested, and validated JoyQ assessment. Joy, peace, pseudo-joy, and other scales are now backed by research. Your support allows us to further develop resources like JoyQ as well as create new ones. We are thankful for your generosity!
Blessings,
Jim Wilder
Neurotheologian