Emotional Impact Statement:
It is the intention of Woodland House of Mercy to provide a
safe environment for healing by providing privacy, confidentiality
and a healthy relationship to help another person discover the
resources of God that reside within their own heart. They will
leave each encounter feeling renewed in a first-love connection
with God and themselves.
Mission
Statement:
It is the
mission of Woodland House of Mercy to evangelize areas of a
person's heart that will compel them to trust and embrace a
love relationship with God so that they are free from self-limiting
beliefs, enabling them to experience emotional, spiritual, and
physical wholeness and connect them with their own heart, resulting
in living a life motivated by love.
A
Word From Cindy Olson:
All my life I have had an internal focus of why I exist. Now,
if you would
have asked me the question, "Why are you here?", I
would not have been able to verbalize it. But, I have always
had this sense about my life and what to do with it.
For a large
portion of my life I had experienced paralyzing depression.
I felt blocked from being able to release what was within me.
Little did I know in those days that I was carrying a ministry!
In 1999,
the circumstances in our lives brought my husband and I to a
decision to attend a school of ministry in Huntsville, Alabama.
So, in January my husband and family moved across the U.S. from
California. My husband made the journey first, which left me
and a friend to drive the moving truck ourselves!
Up until
that point, as I would spend time with God, I could experience
ll the potential within me, but I felt powerless and frustrated
to do anything about it. I guess I thought a life's vision was
just supposed to happen by accidentally. I am so grateful I
am no longer in my closet waiting for something to happen!
Woodland
House of Mercy is here to be a vessel for God's love and healing
in the lives of people. It is a place where the person as a
whole can learn to relate to themselves, to God and to others
through Holy-Spirit-led personal counseling, support groups,
books, tapes, worship, Bible study, seminars, retreats and Biblical
meditation.
ABOUT
CINDY OLSON
We have been created to live out of passion. For most of my
life I have had a passion to help people. Shortly after being
born again in my early twenties I was introduced to the many
ways we could help people. The church helped me discover my
gifts and I hit the ground running.
It didn't take long to realize that I, myself, needed much healing
in my life. I discovered that in loving God, you served people
and people brought joy, warmth...and CONFLICT! An opportunity
opened up for me. In those relational areas where I was wounded,
God was now using relationships to bring healing and my relationships
grew!
I spent ten years to seminars and special training classes while
raising a family. In 1992 I began training for prayer counseling
through The Elijah House. In 1994 I interned at their facility
in Idaho. From there I began Woodland House of Mercy and began
counseling from a pastoral position. In 1995 I facilitated a
video school and my practice took off. In 1997 I received training
from various teachers and counselors on D.I.D. and de-programming,
interning several times through the next two years.
In 1999 my husband, Rob, and I, with our two children, left
California and moved to Huntsville, Alabama, to attend Impact
International School of Ministry. While there I received a Bachelor's
degree in Theology along with my auricular detox schooling and
training, A.D.S.
Shortly after attending the school, I became part of the staff
with Impact Ministries as their main staff counselor. I have
written and taught, in conjunction with Dr. James B. Richards,
an Advanced Counseling School. I have also taught counseling
and chapel classes in the School of Ministry. As a worship leader,
I am able to provide spontaneous worship and Biblical meditation.
I have been married 25 years and we have two children-a son
and a daughter. I was a stay-at-home mom as the children were
growing up, but I allowed God into my life and sought Him diligently
through prayer, worship and fellowship.
Through Woodland House of Mercy, many now learn and experience
the love and mercy of God, making them able to allow His grace
to empower them to do what they have been unable to do in their
own strength.
