Submission Number: 58
Submission ID: 8127
Submission UUID: 15e654e1-491c-4e6c-b149-f109338f250b

Created: Sun, 01/11/2026 - 15:57
Completed: Sun, 01/11/2026 - 17:27
Changed: Sun, 01/11/2026 - 17:27

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Stephen
McLaughlin
9193580194
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April
18
1954
Continuation of my involvement with other men where the focus is on recognizing and growing in my relationship with Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit, while being guided, supported and supportinmg others.
Married with two adult childeren
Wife is also retired, we have been happily and excitedly married 34 years. My daugther is 31 and currently lives here in Hillsborough NC. My son, Matthew passed away in January 2022.
I met Michael Thompson when he was an associate pastor at our Church (New Hope) in Durham roughly around 2010. I have attended over 10 Top Gun, Heart of a Warrior and Advance conferences, having both led and served on the I team for many years and served in he role of Medic on at least 3-4 occasions . I attended conferences in Virginia, Colorado and New York as a team member. I have read the books and was part of a small group led by Michael Thompson for many years. I am now part of a small group with John Lane, Jeff Lawton and others.
I grew up going to church and learning religion from my parents, and then the nuns in my school and priests in the community. My first connection with Jesus was as an alter boy, attending Mass every day in Lent and feeling a pull to the love of God. Later this grew through retreat programs in college, through a higher power in 12 step, and then through being involved with the Zoweh message.
I have done this from the pulpit in a church in South Dakota, at Advance as a member of a small group, and most recently to my home church members,
Having participated in much therapy early on as a young man, then having attended many Zoweh events, as well as being in a Zoweh small group for at least 10 years, I sm very familiar with the tems. I have done the workbooks and recorded my wounds, and broken my vows and agreements.
I grew up in a family of six kids and a dad who worked 3 jobs. My mom bore the brunt of raising us. And she used alcohol to medicate her lonliness, and frustration. She would use phrases like "we got the wrong child at the hospita or you should be seen and not heard. At times she slapped my face. Then when my dad got home I got hit with the belt, sometimes using the buckle end. I felt defeated, hopeless and helpless. Like i did not matter
I am familiar through many situations. The message of living in two kingdoms, reading Defeating Dark Angels, participating in a few spititual interventions with Dave Applebee (in Virginia). I experience my own spiritual warfare having struggled in my life with multiple addictions, and with living in the midst of the spiritual battle.
While serving as a prayer member, like I team for a college retreat, I was in the midst of praying and asking God for a sign and he made it snow, It was mid October, an otherwise sunny day. I cried and felt so uplifted, so loved, so special. When I pray now, I receive messges through the daily scripture words, or through the happenings in nature around me.
I have a masters degree in social work, had couseling training and was in therapy for many years as a young man. I am a member of a 12 step organization and have sponsored men in that role. I have been a small group leader on the Advance workshop and listened to men's stories in that role as well as served as a medic at Heart of a Warrior on multiple occassions
The Heart of a Warrior, Search and Rescue, Waking the Dead, The Screwtape Letters, Defeating Dark Angels, The ​​Sacred Romance, It’s Your Call, Wild At Heart, ​​Fathered By God, Captivating, Mere Christianity
Another Elder-Sage
retired - most times are fine
Reference
John
Lane
johnhlane3@gmail.com
919 627-2909