Meet your guides.
You can trust that your guides are brothers who...
1. Have failed significantly and walked through the depths of their own frailty, humanity and despair
2. Continue to explore their own hearts and motivations
3. Continue to know their own inadequacy
4. Continue to know their own propensity to pose, posture and pretend
5. Will offer a place for all of you: your glory, your shame, your pain, your secrets, your restoration
6. Will not try to fix you
CHUCK DEGROAT
Chuck is Professor of Counseling and Christian Spirituality at Western Theological Seminary Holland MI and is a licensed therapist, author, retreat leader, and spiritual director. For more than 25 years, Chuck DeGroat has guided many on a more spacious journey toward a life of wholeheartedness.
We experience Chuck as a man who consistently offers those parts of himself that the rest of us are desperately trying to keep under wraps. As a result, we are invited to know ourselves a little more gently.
BRAD JERSAK
Brad Jersak is an author and teacher based in Abbotsford, BC. He currently serves as the Dean of Theology & Culture at St. Stephen’s University (SSU.ca/graduate) in New Brunswick and teaches peace studies courses with IRPJ.org and is a regular speaker with the Open Table Conference crew.
Through his books and seminars, Brad shares the good news that God is Love, perfectly revealed in Jesus Christ, and that God’s love heals wounded hearts and empowers us to heal this broken world. The weight and fullness of Brad’s offerings are staggeringly profound and beautiful.
CHRIS BRYSON
Chris is a businessman who got everything he ever wanted, only to discover it wasn’t what he really wanted. His testimony is that the bounty of Trinity is also for the uncredentialed.
ANDY GULLAHORN
Andy is a self proclaimed bowling, badmintoning, high-fiving, disc golfing, nick-naming, basketballing fun facilitator who is also a singer/songwriter in his spare time. We know him to be a skilled shepherd of mens’ hearts, wounds and desires. His honesty and vulnerability allow him to offer deep safety and dignity to those around him.
Not all guides will be at each gathering. Guides are rotated through the journey based on the needs of the group and the availability of the guides.
