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 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 compiled 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 challenges in their lives, particularly those impacted by same sex attraction and gender confusion and those in close relationship with someone who struggles in those areas. 

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 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.