Bruce FieldingMichael E. Chalberg is pastor and cofounder of Shepherd's Care Ministries home-based in Gilbert, Arizona. He offers 3 primary areas of ministry; Pastoral Counseling & Mentoring over the Internet and privately; Christian Renewal as an Intentional-Inteim Pastor & Consultant; and building Community Outreaches in and out of the church. He has worked an interim minister for 23 years offering renewal and healing to troubled communities of faith, using conflict resolution, leadership training, restoration of Biblical Disciplines, instruction in spiritual warfare and deliverance ministry, and establishing prayer teams as the foundation for all ministries to support a laity-empowered church to minister to the broken-hearted of the world. He has been in ministry for 44 years. The past 26 years he has specialized in pastoral counseling to survivors of ritual abuse; Clergy Abuse; sexual abuse; Satanic Ritual Abuse; Human Trafficking of Minors; incest; pornography; Domestic Violence; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Dissociative Identity Disorder (a.k.a. MPD) and other trauma induced issues in adults and children. Some clients within the Oakland Diocese gave permission to publish their spiritual journeys of healing with him in his first published series entitled, Shattered People: Journeys to: Joy (2003) Love (2005). Their stories include his commentary as counselor, pastor, friend and fellow traveler. This ministry includes SCPublishing to provide educational/self-help information to survivors and caregivers for them. Now 17 years later, SCP is adding another series Loved Back to Life in May 2020 with autobiographical books from authors telling their stories of surviving severe abuse and trauma with Jesus' love & power to heal and redeem ... true stories revealed to Pastor Mike since 2003. He began the free counseling ministry in 1989 to include an Internet based chatroom reaching an international audience in need of counseling for ritual abuse and trauma. Here both survivors of abuse and their caregivers can come together for the soul purpose of learning about God's methods of healing in the midst of spiritual warfare, alongside of the SCM staff and fellow survivors on their healing journeys. He provides a 'virtual' church office atmosphere for topics discussed including personal histories and experiences in the healing process, spiritual warfare, deliverance ministry and the development of spiritual gifts for survival. Private counseling is given as well via emails, chat rooms, phone and video conferencing. He moved his ministries to Arizona in 2010 to create Starbright Foundation Inc. with partners in ministry to focus on children/minors caught up in human sex trafficking by providing free support for rescues, protection, counseling and education to heal the traumas they have endured. SFI expanded to include training of law enforcement, first responders, school systems, childcare workers, foster parents, churches, families and social groups ... anyone who will listen about how to get involved in intervention and prevention of this criminal industry. He and his wife, Carol (SCM cofounder), are graduates of Fuller Theological Seminary. He has a Master of Divinity in Pastoral Care and Counseling and Carol has a Master of Arts in Theology. I write about the truth of people's relationship to God, how it is broken by abuse and the healing process needed to rebuild that relationship. As God reveals His methods of healing using human relationships ... traditional and historical concepts of God are challenged. People can learn how living in God's Kingdom now with unconditional love in broken relationships will rarely leave them in a comfortable 'Christian' environment without daily challenges to faith and truth. How evil intervenes in our lives to disrupt our relationship with God is presented in practical ways of keeping Christians unaware of the spiritual battles raging around us and inside of u Read More Read Less