Michael E. Chalberg is pastor and cofounder of Shepherds Care Ministries home-based in Gilbert, Arizona. He offers 3 primary areas of ministry; Pastoral Counseling & Mentoring over the Internet and privately; Christian Renewal as an Intentional Interim Pastor & Consultant; and building Community Outreaches out of churches. He worked in the interim ministry for 23 years offering renewal and healing to troubled communities of faith as a pastor/consultant using conflict resolution, leadership training, restoration of Biblical Disciplines, instruction in spiritual warfare and deliverance ministry, and establishing prayer teams as the foundation for all ministries to support a laity-empowered church to the broken-hearted of the world. He has been in ministry for 44 years. The past 26 years he has specialized in pastoral counseling to survivors of ritual abuses; Clergy Abuse, sexual abuse, Satanic Ritual Abuse, Human Trafficking of Minors and other abuses like incest, pornography and Domestic Violence which can result in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (a.k.a. MPD) and other trauma induced issues in adults and children. Some of his clients gave permission to publish their spiritual journeys of healing with him in the first book series entitled, Shattered People: Journeys to: Joy (2003) Love (2005). Their stories include his commentary as counselor, pastor, friend and fellow traveler. This ministry includes SCPublishing to provide education /self-help information to survivors and those who are caregivers for them. Now, 17 years later, SCP is adding another series "Loved Back to Life" in May 2020 with autobiographical books from various authors telling their stories of surviving severe abuse and trauma with Jesus' power & love to heal and redeem...true stories as revealed to Pastor Mike since 2003 to encourage healing for all. He began this free counseling service as an extension of ministries started in 1989 to include an Internet based chatroom weekly reaching an international audience in need of counseling for ritual abuse and trauma. Here, both survivors and the people who care for them can come together for the soul purpose of learning about God's methods of spiritual healing in the midst of spiritual warfare, alongside of the SCM staff and fellow survivors on their healing journeys. He provides a 'virtual' church office atmosphere. Topics discussed include personal histories and experiences in the healing process, spiritual warfare, deliverance ministry and the development of spiritual gifts for survival. Private counseling is given as well via emails, private chat rooms, phone and video conferencing. He moved his ministries in 2010 to Arizona to create Starbright Foundation Inc. with partners in ministry focusing on children/minors caught up in human sex trafficking, by providing free support for rescues, protection, counseling, safe-housing and education to heal the traumas they endured. SFI expanded to include training of law enforcement, first responders, school systems, childcare workers, foster parents, churches, families and social groups... anyone who will listen about how to get involved in intervention and prevention of this criminal industry. He and his wife Carol (SCM cofounder) are graduates of Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. He has a Master of Divinity - Pastoral Care and Counseling and Carol has a Master of Arts in Theology.