Wesley M. Eades, Ph.D.

P.O. Box 2421                                                  254.498.7176 500 Webster Avenue, Suite 103                      Fax: 254.230-4011 Waco, Texas 76701                                         WMEades@gmail.com        www.WMEades.com

< Licensures & Certifications  Licensed Professional Counselor (Approved Supervisor), Texas  Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Approved Supervisor), Texas  Member - College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy

< Experience: Current

PRIVATE PRACTICE OF PASTORAL COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY September 1997 - present Waco, Texas CLERICUS FACILITATOR, Northwest Convocation of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas September 2005 - present Clericus is the support program for the Episcopal clergy of Texas.  A Clericus group meets for two hours each month to discuss the stresses and issues of ministry.

< Experience: Past

INTERIM PASTOR, Friedens United Church of Christ January 2005 - December 2006

CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Developed and teaches the workshop “Helping People Use Their Religious Beliefs to Heal.” (See <This link's target cannot be found> )

CLINICAL SUPERVISOR AND ADMINISTRATIVE CONSULTANT, June 2000 - Dec 2003 Texas Baptist Children’s Home, Round Rock, Texas

MINISTER OF COUNSELING AND PASTORAL CARE, September 1997 - May 2003  First Baptist Church of Waco, Texas

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN MINISTRY January 1998 - December 2001  George W. Truett Theological Seminary (Baylor University), Waco Texas

PASTORAL COUNSELOR-PRIVATE PRACTICE, March 1997 - August 1997  Austin, Texas

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR April 1993 - April 1997  Counseling and Pastoral Care Center of Austin, Texas

PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND FAMILY COUNSELOR July 1989 - March 1993  First Baptist Church, Charleston, SC

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR (Department of Religion) September 1990 - March 1993  Charleston Southern University

PASTORAL COUNSELOR August 1986 - May 1989  Personal Counseling Service, Jeffersonville, IN

< Education

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE (Psychology of Religion), December 1989  The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY Program included one semester of study at the Carl Jung Institute, Zurich, Switzerland

MASTER OF THEOLOGY DEGREE, December 1986  The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY

MASTER OF DIVINITY DEGREE, May 1983  Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO

BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE, August 1978  Central State University, Edmond, OK

GRADUATE, May 1974  Hereford High School, Hereford (TX)

< Clinical Training

COUNSELING RESIDENCY, September 1986 - May 1988  Personal Counseling Service, Jeffersonville, IN

FOUR UNITS, CLINICAL PASTORAL EDUCATION  Baptist Hospital-Highland, Louisville, KY (Spring 1986)  Central State Mental Hospital, Louisville, KY (Fall 1985 )  Veteran's Administration Medical Center, Kansas City, MO          (2 units , Fall 1984 - Spring 1985 and Fall 1982 - Spring 1983)

< Ordination

Ordained by the Leawood Baptist Church, 1983 Leawood Baptist Church, Leawood , Kansas Currently a member in good standing of the DaySpring Baptist Church, Waco Texas.  DaySpring is a Baptist church in the contemplative tradition, affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

< Personal

Married to Holly Haynes Eades, R.N.  1983  Graduate of William Jewell College with a B.A. in Education  2002  Graduate of McLennan County Community College with an A.A. in Nursing  2002 - 2005  Mother/Baby Nurse, Hillcrest Baptist Hospital, Waco, Texas  2005 - 2009  Nurse, Waco High School, Waco Texas  2010 - present  Nurse, Providence Hospice

Three Children  Abigail (born March 1989)  Benjamin (born May 1992)  Olivia (born October 1995)