Since 2010 Alive & Well has been training people from all walks of life to live the Immanuel Encounter Lifestyle and to learn how to guide others into life changing encounters with Immanuel, the God who is with us.
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Today we continue to create opportunities for
relational and spiritual growth and connection through the
Immanuel Encounter Training, Journey Groups and Online Events.
our vision
Alive & Well is a ministry committed to a relational paradigm shift that brings whole brain balance into the lives of individuals, families, organizations, and churches.
our mission
Our goal is to create opportunities for relational and spiritual growth, healing, and joyful community through experience-based training involving all three pillars of the Life Model: Relational Brain Skills, The Immanuel Lifestyle, and Multigenerational Community.
Executive Director
Teddi Rodgers
M.A. Pastoral Counseling
Teddi Rodgers is a pastor, trainer and avid practitioner of the Immanuel Lifestyle. After many years of studying and pursuing an agape-filled life, Teddi has found that the Life Model and the Immanuel Lifestyle have been the key that has unlocked the Gospel within her. Her passion to share this freedom and transformation is contagious! Teddi has been married to the love of her life for twenty seven years and is the mother of three vibrant adults. She brings to the Executive Director role, more than twenty five years of experience as a pastor, executive leader and educator.
“It is a profound gift to share this ministry and to be with people as they taste and see a secure attachment with God and others! This is the most transformational work I have been a part of.” -Teddi
DIRECTOR of DEVELOPMENT
AMY BROWN
Amy Brown joined the Alive & Well staff in January 2021 as a content developer, trainer, and consultant. As Alive & Well expands into new areas of ministry, Amy and Margaret will work together to develop training and curriculum as God leads. Amy’s passion and expertise in building online communities for Immanuel connection, discipleship, emotional and spiritual growth is a welcome addition.
Currently, Amy creates monthly training events for the Online Practice Community with THRIVEtoday, creates training materials for Life Model Works, and is the developer and director of the Journey Group Program. She co-authored the book Relational Skills in the Bible with Chris Coursey, and wrote the Journey Group Level 1 and 2 curriculum. She is a relational skills trainer with THRIVEtoday.
founders
The Webbs
Jerry and Margaret began life together in the turbulent decade of the 1970's, spiritually confused, culturally disenfranchised, and broke. Their marriage has been the anvil on which the Lord in his mercy has hammered out a deep bond of love, a productive working relationship, and a zest for life that energizes those around them. Jerry, a successful financial advisor, and Margaret, a Christian psychotherapist, have between them 80 years of people-helping experience in two challenging arenas: relationship to money and relationship to God, self, and others.
Both were raised in committed Christian homes, Jerry in Tulsa, OK and Margaret in Wheaton, IL. But each walked away in their early 20's searching for spirituality with a depth of authenticity, commitment, and intimacy. Together they were led back to the Christian faith and still continue that journey toward authentic spirituality, all out commitment in faith and practice, and a life of intimacy with the God who is with us, Immanuel.
In this season formerly known as retirement, they are excited about having more time and resources to invest in ministry.
board of directors
Jerry Webb, chairman/president
Jerry built a successful financial planning and investment advisory business from the ground up based on scriptural principles of finance and relationship. It survived every market boom and crash for over 40 years, when he retired and handed it over to his associate. He was also a founding board member of Larry Burkett’s Kingdom Advisors. He has served on a number of ministry boards that have focused on supporting indigenous organizations working with AIDS orphans and widows, microenterprise, and seminaries and Bible colleges.
Jerry's passion is to promote charitable giving, both by sharing the vision for joyful giving and by creating vehicles through which sacrificial giving can flow. He believes that financial health has more to do with relationship to money than amounts of money, and that scripture is the key to growing into that healthy relationship. He is committed to offering his expertise in the arena of finance and investments through Alive and Well, Inc.
Visit Money & Stewardship for some of Jerry’s financial wisdom and advice.
margaret Webb, Director of Training
Margaret began her career in people helping at age 16 as an aide in a nursing home. Exploratory and adventuresome, her quest for spiritual and emotional wholeness took many twists and turns, from nursing to psychology to alternative medicine and massage therapy.
After some years in the New Age movement, Margaret had a personal encounter with the living God. She returned to Christianity, and the Holy Spirit took her through a painful, glorious process of healing. She earned a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College and spent 12 years in private practice as a Christian psychotherapist, retiring in the year 2000.
Since then she has devoted herself to a ministry of emotional healing and maturation in the context of prayer. Teaching, training, mentoring, and consulting, she is committed to the vision of a Relational Reformation in the body of Christ. Learn more about The Immanuel Lifestyle and the Immanuel Encounter Guide Training program Margaret has developed.
John Saunders
John has been involved in Christian ministry since high school. Some powerful experiences with healing prayer beginning in 2013 caused him and his wife to start searching for places to learn more about this kind of ministry. They found the Life Model universe in 2015 when they attended the Life Model Works annual gathering. They attended their first Thrive training that summer, and have been actively learning about and growing in emotional maturity and relational skills since then. They have completed all Thrive tracks, and been involved in Journey Groups since 2017. In January 2020, he became a board member for Thrive Today with Chris and Jen Coursey.
His vision is to bring the principles of the Life Model, the Immanuel Lifestyle, emotional maturity, and relational skills into the workplace. In addition to Christian ministry, he is involved in Conscious Capitalism, Braver Angels, the National Speakers Association, and Windy City Professional Speakers.
He and his wife Mary Ellen have been married over 40 years, and live in Gurnee, IL. They have four unique and wonderful adult children. He enjoys the ever-changing beauty of clouds, especially as they interact with sunsets, big ideas and deep conversations, and chilling out by playing piano or sitting by the fire.
chad meadows
Chad and his wife Joy currently live in Branson Missouri with their 3 boys where they own and operate an interior design and renovation business. He spent 9 years in vocational ministry as a worship pastor in various churches throughout the country where the Lord developed in him a deep love for the people of the Church. He believes that the best way to operate as the Body of Christ is to practice the things that Jesus, his disciples and the early church modeled. Hospitality, honesty, humility, vulnerability, sincere love and affection and concern for the well-being of others.
Chad shares openly about his history of childhood trauma and abuse and the ways that has impacted his spiritual, emotional, mental and physical health. Throughout all the years of various treatments, counseling sessions and therapy modalities, the most impactful experience by far has been his work using the Immanuel prayer model. What he loves most about guiding or being guided in this type of prayer is that it addresses the whole person. The spirit, the heart, the mind and the body, all while grounded in a relational connection with Jesus and the guide.
John Hagan
I live in Cleburne TX with my wife of 40 years, Leslie Hagan. We have 3 children and 7 grandchildren. I am in the restaurant business in a franchise called Golden Chick with 16 locations scattered around Texas. I have known Jerry and Margaret since 2019 when I first met Margaret at a meeting regarding Life Model Works in Fort Worth. Since then I have spent time at their Arkansas hideaway on two occasions. I was introduced to my first guide session with Margaret there in Arkansas. I still remember the flash of the most vivid and vibrant colors and what seemed like a physical electric shock during the session. I felt it was an angelic presence bringing a small cup of glory. I have gone through the Immanuel Guide Training and feel it is one of the most excellent ways I have seen to facilitate people having a right brain experience and experiencing the reality of Jesus's presence. The Lord had already quickened me about being on the Alive & Well board before they asked, so it was an easy yes.