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Meet our Ministers
President
Reverend Madge Hart-Peinkofer
Rev. Madge was ordained at the HOME Spiritual Center in December 2006. Madge has always been aware of her spiritual path and joined HOME Spiritual Center in 1999. She has served on the board of directors at HOME Spiritual Center for many years.
Madge is an inspirational speaker and leader community leader, teacher, drum keeper, and celebrant. She has led the ‘One Spirit’ Drum circle for many years. She is the creator of a healing practice called ‘Energy Center Harmonics’. She has worked at hospitals for over 35 years, many in Human Resources, serves on the Service Excellence Committee, and Chair of the Employee Council. In her everyday practice she bridges the two worlds of altruistic medicine and alternative practices. Together with her husband, they created a ‘Youth Speech and Leadership Club’ that lasted for several years.
She married Joe Peinkofer in 1999 and enjoys gardening, canning, and many other crafts.
She has studied many metaphysical practices, was trained in Compassionate Communication, and has taken a myriad of classes and workshops.
Rev. Connie Walker
Rev. Connie was ordained as a Minister of the Home Spiritual Center in 2017. Connie has studied and worked in the field of Metaphysics & New Thought for 50 years.
She is a graduate of Dominion Herbal College, British Columbia Canada and owned and operated ‘The Herb Lady ’& ‘American Herbal Institute’ in Salem, OR from 1998-2014.
She served as Head of the Education Dept. for Unity in Kansas for two years and has served as a Practitioner for Science of Mind in Salem Oregon for twelve years.
She was born and raised in Washington state and lived in Alaska for eighteen years. She is married and has two sons, and three beautiful grandchildren.
Rev. Connie is a teacher at HOME Academy and offers Spiritual & Prayer Council and Herbal & Health Consultations.
Reverend Jennifer Rothrock
Jennifer was ordained at the HOME Spiritual Center in April 2022. She began her own healing journey in 2010 guiding her to discover her spiritual path. She has a heartfelt desire to assist others in healing and uncovering or becoming clearer on their own sacred spiritual journeys.
Jennifer’s passion for assisting others in healing has led her to many volunteer positions within our community. As a volunteer at a local hospice, she worked with the Bereavement Team to teach a series of grief classes to children and adults. She provided support to community members who have lost a loved one to suicide by facilitating a bereavement support group. She also volunteered as a Reiki practitioner in the Oncology department of a local hospital.
She is a co-founder of a monthly women’s circle (Salem Soul Sisters) allowing her to connect, support, and empower other women. She also founded and leads the HOME Spiritual Center's Reiki Ministry and facilitates a monthly Reiki Circle.
She began her Reiki journey in 2011 and created her healing practice, Live Life Wellness in 2016. Jennifer currently offers energy healing sessions and teaches Reiki courses at the HOME Spiritual Center.
Our Ministerial Team
The HOME Spiritual Center Ministerial Team has been providing congregational spiritual support and inspiration since 1992. By following our Guiding Principles our Team can help individuals gain spiritual understanding and a philosophy that reflects Christ’s consciousness. The Ministerial Teams goal is to help seekers tap in to their own inner wisdom and empowerment and to support their relationship with the Divine.
Rev’s Madge, Connie, and Jennifer provide continual leadership, spiritual support and inspiration to our congregants as well as our community. They do this by listening deeply, identifying the needs of their congregants and by providing tools and strategies necessary to master your own world every day. By providing those tools, individuals are better able to connect to their own deep wisdom and empowerment and ultimately confidence is built.
Our Guiding Principles
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To recognize our Divine Connection.
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To encourage each other to live empowered, fulfilling and joyful lives.
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To appreciate our commonalities and differences.
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To be mindful and considerate in our communications and interactions.
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To take ownership of my actions.
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To have an attitude of gratefulness.
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To give generously of my time, talents and resources.
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To ensure the HOME Spiritual Center and its community thrives now and into the future.
Our Foundation the 91st Psalm
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He/She is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
He/She will cover you with his/her feathers, and under his/her wings you will find refuge; his/her faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
You will only observe with your eyes and witness the experience of the disconnected.
If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.
For he/she will command his/her angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
“Because they love me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue them; I will protect them, for they acknowledge my name.
They will call on me, and I will answer them; I will be with them in trouble, I will deliver them and honor them.
With long life I will satisfy them and show them my salvation.”
Psalm 91