Soul Care

Guests: Mindy Caliguire & Tammy Trent

In this episode of Faith Café, host Scott Dente has his hands full with two very capable and knowledgeable women who love to tell it like it is. First he explores the topic of Soul Care with Author Mindy Caliguire and then he catches up with Faith Café favorite Tammy Trent. Tammy also sings two songs from her latest CD.

Mindy Caliguire | www.soulcare.com

In 1998 Mindy launched Soul Care, a publishing and ministry vision dedicated to helping people restore health to their souls. The first "products" were an assortment of high-quality Soul Care Journals packaged with a small booklet she and Jeff authored on journaling: Write for Your Soul.

In both Christian and general market independent bookstore and chains, the journals sold well—evidence of a growing hunger for authentic spirituality and the need for practical helps in experiencing God. The vision of Soul Care kept emerging…what other resources would feed the soul? What would help someone who was far from God but interested in the soul? How can we best communicate the urgency and critical importance of soul care?

She then served in the area of spiritual formation at Willow Creek Community Church from 2001 tp 2004, concentration on membership, the Ministry of Prayer, small group curriculum, and staff team "soul care". In 2005 she re-engaged with Soul Care, serving churches and organizations as a leadership consultant, speaker, and retreat leader.

Mindy and Jeff have been married since 1987 and have three sons, Jeffery, Jonathan, and Joshua (the J-Team!). They are both active members at Willow Creek and make their home in Algonquin, Illinois.

Tammy Trent | www.tammytrent.com

At six, Tammy Trent began teaching herself to play the drums, and three years later, when she heard Amy Grant on the radio for the first time, her fate was sealed. By high school Tammy was jamming on the drums with pep and rock bands before basketball games and often found herself playing Top 40 hits she'd never heard before, since her parents only allowed Christian music in their home. But she had an affinity for the music and kept the beat just the same. Tammy is excited about the opportunity to minister through her music. She comes by her musical talent naturally, having grown up watching her mother, a speaker and performer on the gospel circuit. Tammy often traveled with her Mom to churches, women's conferences, nursing homes and prisons, and decided early on that music would be her chosen path as well.

"For me, having something to say is really important. I want to make people feel comfortable and loved through my music, so I've got to have songs on my record that'll support my heart and what's going on in my life, so I'll have something to say and to sing. Where people's hearts are is still so important to me and my place in their life through my music is still critical to me. Every night I'm challenged to say something deeper or more meaningful, and it challenges me to keep growing in my own faith. I want to be one of those artists like Steven Curtis Chapman or Twila Paris. I think of their heritage, how they've been so consistent with their walk and faithful with their music and lyrics. They walk it, talk it, sing about it and live it. And I would love for people to have said that about me...for people to say she made a difference."