Small Beginnings Ministries

Bob Peers

Having ministered since 1980 to individuals who needed counseling, deliverance and healing prayer, Bob Peers, our Founder and Director of Ministry Development, taught both during the first and second year of the Ministry Training Program. Bob assisted students as they found their own unique purpose whether in the church or out in the community. As well as having written the entire curriculum for the second year of Ministry Training, he led the Monday Night Healing Prayer Group for over twenty years, taught, counseled and developed multi-media presentations to coincide with class teachings.

Bob passed away suddenly February 2005. Having devoted his life to the disadvantaged and being instrumental in drawing others closer to God, he is survived by a multitude of grateful people whose lives have been forever changed in extraordinary ways.

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Maya researches, writes class curriculum, teaches and counsels. She is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) and is trained in Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) allowing her to debrief victims of traumatic events so they may recover more quickly. She mentored for sixteen years with Bob Peers, the founder of Small Beginnings Ministries, and has been a lay biblical minister since 1990. She has been happily married for twenty-four years to Steve Sprague and they have two sons, Andrew and Jonathan. Maya home schooled her sons for a combined total of sixteen years, is a breast cancer survivor, and caregiver to her father in her home since 1998 after he suffered a massive stroke. Due to Maya’s Jewish ancestry and lifelong interest in the roots of her Christian faith, her family observes Shabbat, Pesach (Passover), Chanukah, and Rosh Hashanah. Her family often has guests wanting to visit for Shabbat to devour her homemade Challah. Maya enjoys spending time with her family, gardening, listening to world music and discussing deep topics with good friends over chai.
 

Julene Pommert

Julene enrolled in the Foundation & Transformation Classafter receiving assistance from Small Beginnings’ founder, Bob Peers, as theyco-ministered to a woman experiencing mental illness at their church. Prior totraining with Small Beginnings Ministries, Julene mentored young women, actedas a pastoral caregiver at her church and received her Ph.D. in InterculturalCommunication and Conflict at the Universityof Washington preparingto become a professor. However, after becoming mother to two boys, Jed andElisha, Julene chose to alter her plans and now passionately home schools them.Julene has been married since 1988 to Daniel, a Washingtonian whom she met inher home-state of Illinois.They returned to Washingtonso she could attend school here. Julene most enjoys being out in nature; hikingor gardening with her family, but she comes indoors to bake bread as well as gorgeouscustom-decorated cakes. She is an avid reader about home schooling, theology,counseling, Arabic culture and is a skilled artist. A large watercolor of Christ’shand on the cross by Julene graces our prayer room.

Danielle Rowland 

Enrolling in the Foundation andTransformation Class in 2001, Danielle found Small Beginnings played an integral role in her journey out of a severe and lengthy depression. The ministry has since provideda context in which she can “comfort others with the comfort she herself hasreceived from God” as an intern with the Monday Night Healing Prayer group.Since first connecting with Small Beginnings, Danielle married her biking buddy,Dan, in 2005, attended graduate school at the UW Information School for twoyears, and now works as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at the UWBothell/Cascadia Community College Library. In her spare time, Dani reads,bikes, tidies, weeds her too-large yard, watches birds, and passionately enjoysa good nap. 

Gary Greer