Statement of Faith
Mine is rooted in the ancient, ecumenical faith of the Christian church, summarized in the words Christians across centuries and traditions have prayed together:
the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
begotten from the Father before all ages,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made;
of the same essence as the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven;
he became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary,
and was made human.
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered and was buried.
The third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures.
He ascended to heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again with glory
to judge the living and the dead.
His kingdom will never end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life.
He proceeds from the Father and the Son,
and with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified.
He spoke through the prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look forward to the resurrection of the dead,
and to life in the world to come. Amen.
I am a Spirit-filled follower of Jesus, shaped by a breadth and depth of Christ-centered spiritual experiences. I believe the Holy Spirit is not a historical artifact but a living, active, speaking Presence — the same Spirit who moved over the waters at creation, who descended at Pentecost, and who continues to move in the lives of ordinary believers today. Spiritual direction, at its heart, is the practice of learning to notice and respond to that Presence.
The Nicene Creed reminds me — and my directees — that we are not inventing a new spirituality. We are receiving and inhabiting an ancient one. The faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 3) is the same faith we carry into the quiet of the direction session.
A year later, in 1979, I was baptized in the Holy Spirit. That experience did not mark the end of something — it marked a beginning. It opened me to a deeper hunger for God’s presence and a greater attentiveness to the Spirit’s voice, both of which have never left me.
In those early years, I was shaped profoundly by a charismatic Anglican community where seasoned women of God mentored me in life and ministry. They walked with me, prayed over me, and taught me — not only to live a Christ-centered, Word-centered life, but how to live in the Spirit.
Twenty-four years in a large Assemblies of God church deepened my roots in Spirit-filled worship, Scripture, and community. When a move to North Carolina brought change, I spent five years in a large non-denominational congregation — a season that broadened my ecumenical perspective and confirmed what I had long suspected: the Spirit moves across many streams.
More recently, I have returned home, in a sense. I am now a member of a warm, welcoming, Assemblies of God church, where I am active in prayer, teaching, and speaking ministry. It is a community that knows how to linger in God’s presence — and that is no small gift.
This long and varied journey — across traditions, across seasons, across years of being both formed and unformed — is part of what I bring to the direction relationship. I have not arrived. I am still very much on the way. But I have learned to trust the One who leads.
I accompany people across a range of Christian backgrounds and traditions. If you hold to the essentials of the Nicene Creed — the triune God, the incarnate Christ, the resurrection, the living Spirit — we share enough common ground to walk together.