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Dr. Mahoney

Dr. Michael Mahoney is the founder of Gates Ministry. He is an ordained member of the clergy serving in full time vocational ministry since 1988. He earned his doctorate in formational counseling at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland. Ohio. He has extensive training and experience in formational and pastoral counseling. He is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors. He serves as a member of the “Come Away With Me” retreat team assisting pastors and spouses in healing retreats, which is part of the Pastors of Excellence Program at Ashland Theological Seminary. He served previously at St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry in Rochester, New York where he led courses, ministry reflection groups, retreats, and workshops from 2001 – 2008.

Michael serves the church ecumenically. He began his journey in Christ as a young boy at a local Wesleyan Church in a poor rural area of Indiana. He was baptized at nine years of age in the Southern Baptist Church in Florida. In his youth, he attended various Christian churches including the Disciples of Christ, Non-denominational churches, the Lutheran Church and the Roman Catholic Church, where he eventually made a profession of faith in 1967 while serving in the military in England. He was ordained to the sacred order of deacon in the Roman Catholic Church in 1993 in the Diocese of Rochester, New York.

In the course of his ministry, Michael has served various Non-denominational churches; the Assembly of God Church; the Baptist Church; the Free, United, and Wesleyan Methodist Churches; the Foursquare Church; the Pentecostal and Charismatic Church; the Brethren Church; the Presbyterian Church; the Old Catholic Church; the Episcopal Church and the Roman Catholic Church. He has also presented workshops in the Catholic schools system in Rochester and has occasionally consulted in the private sector.

Michael’s broad background facilitates his work in any of the many Christian denominations and traditions. He specializes in the area of personal and interpersonal healing, pastoral strategy, conflict resolution, transitions, and spiritual and emotional intelligence. In addition to the Doctor of Ministry, Michael holds degrees from St. Bernard’s Institute (Master of Divinity), Cornell University (Master of Arts in the Philosophy of Religion), the Naval War College (Master of Arts in Strategic Studies), and Benedictine College (Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religious Studies). He is married to Monette, his wife of over thirty-five years. They have four sons, a daughter, and several grandchildren.

© 2008 Michael Mahoney, D.Min., M.A., M.A.

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