Your Hosts
The retreats of Enduring Heart Ministries are hosted by Doug and Sandy Wiemer. Both Doug and Sandy have been serving in Christian Ministries in various capacities for over 20 years.
Doug Wiemer
Doug has a heart to help Christians in their walk with God and his primary focus at Enduring Heart Ministries is to give leadership to the organization and delivery of content of the retreats. Doug has approximately 15 years of experience as a lay minister of Christian discipleship in various capacities.
His experience includes leading a diversity of bible studies, delivery of discipleship-oriented messages in a congregational setting and serving as a ministry leader responsible for discipleship program development and management.
Specific to retreat style discipleship ministry, he is experienced in retreat planning and execution, administrative organization, content development and delivery, participant mentoring and prayer ministry for small groups up to 15 people. In addition, he has had various opportunities through the years to organize and facilitate short-term topic-based retreats on request.
Sandy has a heart and passion for hospitality ministry. In addition to spiritual mentoring and prayer ministry, her primary focus at Enduring Heart Ministries will be to ensure participants are well cared for at the retreat site, including organization and management of accommodations, meals and other comfort services.
On a cumulative basis, Sandy has approximately 20 years of experience in hospitality services professionally, privately and as a lay minister. Within a church setting, she has served within and provided leadership to hospitality ministries having responsibility for planning, preparation and service of meals for events ranging in size from small group retreats to large events involving several hundred attendees.
In addition, while serving at Christian Centre Brussels, Sandy initiated and led a ministry to refugees for several years. This ministry included not only provision of meals to international refugees in Brussels, Belgium, but also crisis counselling, physical and emotional health and wellness support, spiritual mentoring and prayer ministry.