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Melissa Ebken

“I support people who face challenges, grounding them in an understanding of healthy emotional systems and spiritual practice.”

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Melissa was called into ministry, much to her surprise, after becoming a biologist and serving for ten years in the IL Army National Guard as a utility helicopter mechanic, the first woman to do so. She has served in Illiopolis and Niantic since 2001.

Melissa is at home in the difficult spaces of peoples’ lives, willing to listen and to walk with those who struggle and suffer. She is a trained coach and consults with churches in conflict. Her current pursuits include founding a Virtual Assistant training academy, forming a ministry co-op to better serve small churches, supporting businesses to thrive in stressful climates through building emotional intelligence in their workforce, and guiding people who are ready to lean into and overcome difficult challenges and experiences in their lives.

She authored a book Teach Us To Pray: An Ancient Model For a Modern Day, and has a podcast called Pursuing Uncomfortable. Her next book, Pursuing Uncomfortable: Leaning In and Overcoming, will be available in 2023.

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