Br. Benjamin Tennant, OCL
Availability: Mornings, afternoons
Location: Holland, MI | in-person & online
Focuses: Life transitions, ministry leaders, spirituality in families, worship leaders, Ignatian Exercises (19th Annotation)
Benjamin has been pastoring and leading worship in Vineyard churches since 2001. He enjoys serving as a host for God’s presence—shaping environments that help us notice the work and movement of God, whether songs, sermons, liturgies or spiritual direction. As a director he’s eager to wait and watch with others for an awakening to true desire and for invitations from God or towards love. A father of seven, he’s passionate about the integration of family and spirituality. He and his wife are both vowed members in the Order.
Cyd Holsclaw, n.OCL
Availability: Currently full
Location: Grand Rapids, MI | in-person & online
Focuses: Ministry leaders, people in transition, mid-life and beyond, Ignatian discernment
Cyd currently serves as a coach, a pastor, and a spiritual director in various contexts. She's been married since 2000 and homeschooled two sons who have left the nest. Her heart is for all of us to grow in their capacity to receive God's loving gladness to be with them so that they might have the compassion of Jesus for themselves and one another.
Br. Eric Hershberger, OCL
Availability: Mornings, afternoons
Location: Canton, OH | in-person & online
Focuses: Rule of life, deconstruction & reconstruction, the spiritually curious
Eric is a former pastor but felt called to this beautiful vocation and loves connecting with other people. He self-describes as an Enneagram 9w8, is married and has four children. Eric is also a vowed member of the Order and was trained through the Order’s Apprenticeship in Spiritual Direction program.
Jeff Doeringer, n.OCL
Availability: Mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends
Location: Brunswick, OH | in-person & online
Focuses: Spiritual formation, leaders and clergy, healing prayer and deliverance, life as narrative, Ignatian Exercises (19th Annotation)
Jeff is a spiritual director, ordained C&MA minister and novice in the Order. He loves to think of spiritual direction as a place to get to be curious about about your life, your thoughts, your joys, your sins, your ambitions, your traumas, your fears, and to discover the message God is sharing with you through them. When open space to be curious is provided, grace abounds, and the dis-integrated parts of our humanity are restored. Jeff’s training includes an MA in Theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Graduate Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Loyola University-Chicago and advanced training to lead the 19th Annotation through the Apprenticeship in the Spiritual Exercises.
Wendy Gierhart, n.OCL
Availability: Mornings, afternoons, evenings
Location: Cleveland, OH | in-person & online
Focuses: Ministry leaders, embodied spirituality, deconstruction and spiritually curious, religious trauma, Ignatian Exercises (19th Annotation)
Wendy brings a contemplative, trauma-informed and embodied approach to spiritual direction, creating space to let your soul rest and honestly explore yourself within the context of your own unique story and where God is loving you in the midst of it. Her passion is to see people experience deeper integration so that they can live fully into who they are. She is an ordained pastor in the Vineyard and brings diverse experience from hospice chaplaincy to church planting to educational leadership.