Our Director and Founder

About Pastor Connie Strefling-Schutte, Director/CEO of Vertical Healing Center

Pastor Connie Strefling-Schutte, B.A., M.A., L.P.C. Pastor Connie, anointed as a counselor, teacher and international speaker, has over twenty years of experience using her gifts of compassion, discernment, and prayer as a vessel for healing in the Body of Christ. God has called and equipped Pastor Connie to apply Biblical principles together with the power of the cross and the Holy Spirit, to bring people into healing, freedom, and a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.

Pastor Connie received a B.A. in Christian Counseling and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Cornerstone University, and is a L.P.C. (Licensed Pastoral Christian Counselor). She has been equipped and extensively involved in the Elijah House Ministries, an inter-denominational, prophetic, healing ministry. Pastor Connie is board certified in crisis and abuse counseling and has completed a comprehensive internship in an abuse shelter for women and children. Connie has also worked for several years in a medical clinic as the counselor on staff.

Connie is an ordained Pastor of Counseling and Healing and is the Founder and Director of Vertical Healing Center. She also founded Wellspring Healing Ministry in Zeeland, Michigan and Abba's Farm Counseling Center. Pastor Connie has taught numerous workshops and seminars and has developed an internship program that has trained hundreds to be effective in prayer ministry. Pastor Connie interns and mentors members of the church body to become prayer ministers and assists them in developing prayer ministries in their church or community.

Pastor Connie teaches and ministers healing from the pulpits of many churches and has a heart to see biblical counseling and healing ministries developed in your area, across the United States, and throughout the nations.