Our Story

Our hearts are called to minister to, and to equip others to minister to, men and women who genuinely seek healing for the brokenness in their sexuality and their relationships and who ache to realize deep and healthy relationships vertically (with God the Father, with Jesus and with the Holy Spirit) and horizontally (with spouses, children, parents, siblings and friends).

Mark & Christy

Mark and Christy Summers are the co-founders of Redeemed Seasons Ministries. Mark serves as Executive Director and Board Secretary for the non-profit. Christy serves as Board Chairperson and Finance Director.

Christy

Christy’s ministry journey began in her 30’s with her experiences in a relational healing program, called Living Waters. Those experiences nurtured a passion in her for helping men and women who struggle with wounding and brokenness in their stories. Christy has been a small group leader, mentor and spiritual caregiver almost continuously for the past 20 years in a variety of ministry and soul care settings.

Mark

Mark’s spiritual journey began somewhat later in life, but also grew out of his experiences with personal brokenness and healing truths offered through the Living Waters program. That first engagement with a relational healing program kindled a passion for helping others who struggle with wounding in their own stories and the ways it impacts their current choices.

 In 2017, Mark and Christy completed a 2-year spiritual direction program through the Sustainable Faith School of Spiritual Direction.  Both received their certificates in Spiritual Direction and are members of the Evangelical Spiritual Directors Association.  In 2020, after an 18-month process of study and discernment, Mark was ordained as a Deacon in the Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains and currently serves as a member of the clergy and staff at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Colorado Springs. Both have also received training from The Allender Center in providing soul care in trauma and abuse contexts.  

Over the course of the past decade, Mark and Christy have been certified as leaders and have facilitated groups in the following healing and discipleship programs:

  • Living Waters, a 26-week relational/sexual healing program offered by and through Desert Stream Ministries, now based in Kansas City;

  • Journey Discipleship Program, a 26-week relational/sexual healing program offered through Journey USA and authored by Journey Canada; and

  • Life With God, a multi-semester discipleship and relational growth program authored and offered through Grafted Life Ministries, based in Dallas, Texas.

In 2022, Redeemed Seasons Ministries became a member ministry of the Restored Hope Network (www.restoredhopenetwork.org). In 2023, Mark also became a Pastoral Affiliate with Restored Hope Network, based on his ordination as an Anglican Deacon. Restored Hope Network is a coalition of ministries serving those who desire to overcome relational and sexual issues in their lives and those impacted by same sex attraction and gender confusion. 

Through Redeemed Seasons, Mark and Christy offer one-on-one and couple-to-couple soul care and spiritual direction to men and women seeking to deepen their relationship with God and to address dysfunction in their family relationships.  In addition, they provide training and coaching to church leaders and small group leaders on how to care well for others in crisis and relational hardships.

Christy has received training in equine-assisted learning and soul care, and she uses the couple’s two draft horses in some spiritual direction contexts to help women experience deeper relationship with God through contemplations and experiences with the horses. 

Under the auspices of Redeemed Seasons, Mark and Christy have authored Rescue & Restoring (formerly Beyond Rescue), their cornerstone discipleship program which brings together the best relational tools and teachings in a 12-week discipleship experience to support men and women in their journeys toward spiritual healing and freedom. They have also authored and presented In the Trenches, an intensive workshop focused on equipping ministry leaders and small group leaders on caring well for the broken in small group and discipleship contexts.

What People are Saying

"He tells us that He came to set us free. But I never felt free before. This course, the intercessory prayers and ministering from both Christy and Mark helped me become FREE INDEED!"

-KP

"(Mark and Christy) have such a powerful testimony to the ability of God to heal those who are relationally or sexually broken and seeking healing. These are the leaders I would want."

-SG