Cheryl Ann Beals serves as Director of Zozo Center for Soul Care located in the Maritimes of Canada. In her work she is dedicated to helping leaders experience the fulness of Jesus through their own soul care. With this depth of experience the leader is than able to lead others into a great encounter with Jesus. The witness of this abundant life expands into relationships around the leaders – bringing Jesus into the community and the world.
Pastoral care, self-care, and spiritual formation.
- Cheryl Ann Beals shares her journey as director of Soho center for soul care, helping pastors with spiritual formation and well-being.
- Ron highlights growing crisis in church leadership, particularly in pastors’ soul care.
- Relationships, not tasks, are the foundation of ministry.
Resilience, burnout, and spiritual growth in leadership.
- Ron Baker and others discuss the role of wounded healers in ministry.
- Resilience is the ability to cope in adversity and difficult circumstances, and it involves being in relationship with others, having hope, and being creative.
- Pastors often lack resilience due to a cultural belief that suffering is wrong, leading to a lack of understanding that God works in the midst of struggles.
Suffering, relationships, and spiritual formation in a small church setting.
- Ron Baker and Cheryl Ann Beals discuss suffering as a part of life for Christians, with Cheryl Ann Beals emphasizing spiritual formation through suffering.
- Ron Baker and Cheryl Ann Beals discuss the importance of relationship-building for small church pastors, emphasizing the need to point people to God and model dependence on Him.
- Cheryl Ann Beals emphasizes the importance of witnessing God’s work in one’s life, not just solving problems.