Ministry Team and Board of Directors
Carolann Duffin, Executive Director
Carolann is the Executive Director of the Spiritual Formation Society of Texas. With fifteen years in parachurch ministry, she has partnered with churches and small-group leaders to implement spiritual formation practices tailored to their contexts. She is a trained Spiritual Director, having completed her training at Selah, a part of Leadership Transformations, and brings both practical experience and relational care to her leadership and ministry work.
Michael Duffin, Board Member
Michael is an experienced HVAC contractor and a committed parachurch ministry leader with four decades of service. He has long-standing experience supporting churches and ministry teams—helping to mentor leaders, and implement programs that strengthen congregational life. Known for his hands-on problem solving, steady leadership, and deep commitment to faith-based service, Michael brings reliability and heart to both his trade and his ministry work.
Roseanne Elling, Board Member
Roseanne was a counselor for over twenty-five years, specializing in relationships, trauma grief, depression and anxiety. Toward the end of her time as a counselor, she sensed God’s inviting her to invest more in the spiritual lives of the people. Besides being a lover and champion of people, Roseanne’s experiences include being a speaker, retreat leader, missionary and ministry soul care provider, Bible study leader, mentor, and aspiring writer. She is the founder of Living Water Soul Care, which is a ministry that offers Spiritual Direction, Soul Care Retreats, Listening Prayer Groups and more.
Al Hassler, Board Member
Al is a board-certified personal injury lawyer and named partner of Smith & Hassler, which he co-founded in 1989. His passion for representing injured Texans and their families was fueled when his sister was killed in a tragic truck accident by an overweight 18-wheeler in November 1988. Since that time, Al has worked tirelessly to fight for families impacted by the negligence of others. He joins the team at SFSTX bringing his law skills and decades of serving on church boards and ministry teams.
Jan Hassler, Hospitality Team and Board Member
Jan is a trained Spiritual Director who is passionate about coming alongside others as they seek to pursue Jesus in deeper ways in their life stories. She possess a core belief that everything points to something bigger and is honored to help others see and experience that truth. Jan has been a Spiritual Director for 25 years, completing her formal training with Christian Formation and Direction Ministries (CFDM) in 2012. You can read more about Jan and her ministry on her website.
Cheri Hudspith, Team Member
Cheri is the co-director at Practice Collective. She has been helping pastoral and lay leaders since 2012 with the unique challenges and joys of bringing Spiritual Formation ways of learning and growing into the local church. Initially, this began by training Life with God leaders, a three-year journey offered through Grafted Life Ministries, and eventually expanded into other relationships developed beyond that organization. She also completed her training in Spiritual Direction through Selah – LTi in 2013. She loves meeting with directees and now enjoys training future directors as a Supervisor through the same program. She also has experience leading retreats, Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, and guiding life-mapping tools.
Rhonda Jenkins, Board Secretary/Treasurer
Rhonda is passionate about the spiritual formation journey and companioning others to notice and respond to the activity of God in their lives. Through her training in spiritual direction, she began to see how each season of her life had quietly been forming her into a listener. Rhonda brings decades of experience in listening to her spiritual direction practice; through her years as a calm and steady 911 dispatcher and a thoughtful hospitality professional—the Lord cultivated a deep capacity to truly listen, to others and for the Spirit’s guidance. When not serving with SFSTX, Rhonda is attending to her ministry, Higher Calling Hospitality.
Matt Kessler, Vice President
Matt has over 30 years of experience in leadership and ordained ministry – serving as a pastor, church planter, regional leader, and missionary bishop in the Anglican Communion. As the founder and leader of the ministry Revelo, Matt is passionate about leadership formation, soul care, and wilderness adventure. Matt is a certified leadership coach, spiritual director, wilderness survival instructor, and has extensive training in Narrative Focused Trauma Care.
Phyllis Morton, Team Member
As a seasoned nurse, Phyllis both enjoyed and endured many nursing experiences such as working in a pediatric burn unit, a psychiatric unit, and a school. She even did a couple of rigorous tours through head nursing and administration jumping over to office gynecology. She trained at the University of Missouri for both her BSN and MSN. She later trained as a Spiritual Director at SMU which broadened her ability to walk beside people as they seek God, leads retreats, soul-care groups, and recovery groups. She also serves with CODE YOU, a non-profit organization that offers healthcare professional wholistic care as they face feelings of apathy, isolation, and compassion fatigue.
Lori Shoults,Team Member
Lori is the co-director at Practice Collective, a ministry that seeks to provide holistic experiences, safe communities, and relevant resources that invite and encourage followers of Jesus Christ on their inward and outward journey of spiritual formation. She is also the curator/designer of The Ignatian Journey: A Contemporary Approach to the Spiritual Exercises. She leads groups through The Ignatian Journey and is one of the retreat hosts for the Pastors, Priests, and Guides Retreat. She served for several years on The Practice team at Willow Creek Community Church and for three years was the Program Coordinator for the Spiritual Formation Certificate Program through Moody Distance Learning. She is passionate about spiritual formation, spiritual direction, and inviting others into a deeper intimacy with Christ.
David Wu, Board Member
David, along with his wife, Cindy, founded Mosaic Formation. He is a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div) and a senior faculty member of Selah, LTI’s Certificate Program in Spiritual Direction. Prior to his work with Mosaic Formation, David’s ministry experiences included overseas missions in East Asia, church planting, and pastoral ministry in the local church. David is passionate about creating prayerful and hospitable space for others to listen to God, serving under-served individuals and communities, and biblical reconciliation and peacemaking. For fun, he enjoys long hikes, playing the guitar, gluten-free cooking, and pulling weeds. David and Cindy and their three kids make their home in Houston, Texas.
Ted Wueste, Chairman of the Board
Ted serves as the Founder/Director of the Spiritual Formation Society of Arizona. For the last 30 years, he has served in various ministry capacities with 20 of those years serving in pastoral ministry. After serving as an associate pastor, Ted planted a church that he pastored for 9 years and then served as an Executive Pastor of Spiritual Formation for 6 years. Ted designed and taught in a Spiritual Formation program at Phoenix Seminary for seven years, and now enjoys a ministry of spiritual direction, retreat leading, and teaching. Ted is the coordinator for a spiritual direction training program in Arizona (Selah) and serves as Senior Faculty. He has written several books on the spiritual journey as well as devotionals and study guides that many have found helpful. You learn more about his spiritual formation ministry at www.desertdirection.com.
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