Br. Benjamin Tennant, OCL
Availability: Mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends
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.
Br. Brian Hohmeier, OCL
Availability: Currently full
Location: Columbus, OH | online-only
Focuses: Ignatian spirituality and the Spiritual Exercises (19th Annotation), creatives, dark nights of faith, 12-step recovery, internal family systems (IFS)
Brian is an ex-copywriter, a vowed member of the Order and an instructor of spiritual direction. His greatest joy is accompanying people toward the God who loves them and the mission they’re being created for. Also coffee and the city of Cleveland. After studying at Fuller Theological Seminary, Brian trained with Sustainable Faith and went on to apprentice in directing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius through Evangelical Seminary.
Eric Nicolaysen, n.OCL
Availability: Currently full
Location: Des Moines, IA | in-person & online
Focuses: Grief, trauma, doubt, feeling “stuck”
Before his current vocation as a level-1 trauma center chaplain, Eric was the lead pastor of an urban Vineyard church and has been accompanying others as a spiritual director since 2015. He appreciates the many and diverse ways God is present to us, surprises us and delights us, and considers it a gift to walk alongside others as they listen to their life, notice God’s presence and activity, and lean further into the abundant life Jesus shares with them. Eric is married with three children.
Evan Howard, n.OCL
Availability: Currently full
Location: Montrose, CO | online
Evan is the founder and director of Spirituality Shoppe, an evangelical center for the study of Christian spirituality, an affiliate associate professor at Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of several books, including A Guide to Christian Spiritual Formation, The Brazos Introduction to Christian Spirituality and Praying the Scriptures: A Field Guide for Your Spiritual Journey.
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.