In 1997 she moved to Northern Michigan where she continued her education and received a B.S. and M.A. Degree in Business Administration from Northwood University. Interested in being of service to others she has volunteered overseas in Thailand and is currently a member of her local Red Cross and a member of the Disaster Action Team. As she progressed on her Spiritual journey she became a member of The First Spiritual Church of Bay City. She is a Certified Healer and Medium and in 2010 she was Ordained as a Minister of the United Metaphysical Churches.

Upon Ordination she joined the teaching faculty of the United Metaphysical Churches Seminary Program. She is currently attending Atlantic University and working towards a second M.A. degree in Transpersonal Studies.

“Since my mother was the church pianist/organist I spent what free moments I had away from school dusting a pew. When I reached college age it was understood that I would attend the school that supported and promulgated our dogmas, tenets and beliefs. Interestingly, it was during this period that I began questioning much of what was being presented as truth. During my senior year I fell in love and soon married the sheriff of the county.

At that time the sheriff resided in the county jail so for the next twelve years that became my residence, one abutting the home of prisoners. While there I procured a Master’s Degree from Ball State University, a valuable step for my chosen field, but secondary in importance to the life experiences gleaned while living in my current home. Our two little boys, ages ten and eight, suffered the loss of their father, my husband, from an unexpected heart attack, leaving us adrift and confused.

Considerable time was required for healing, especially for the boys who viewed their father as invincible, powerful and the rock upon which our family resided. During this period I became an agnostic, convinced that there was a God but one who was beyond reach, understanding and unknowable—out there somewhere doing whatever a God is supposed to do. My focus turned to my immediate family and the need to supply love and financial security. I reentered the school system, teaching for the next thirty years. With stress and burdens mounting, I discovered and entered a class on Transcendental Meditation.

Friends suggested and steered me to multiple books dealing with psychic and spiritual matters. The stage was set when a long time professor friend flew in from New Zealand (her adopted country) and offered to meet for lunch. It was she who carried the name and phone number of the Late Rev. Gladis Strohme and insisted that I make an appointment with her. Little did I know how drastically my life was about to change. Little did I know that guidance was being provided from a nebulous world that I wasn’t even sure existed. From that initial meeting I was convinced that I had met a deeply spiritual, humble and wise woman who would be willing to take my hand and guide me in a pathway that would lead forever upward and onward.

Being a well-known and seriously developed medium she still maintained a delightful sense of humor. A bond formed almost immediately which would last as long as she remained on this earth plane and, gratefully, even into the next. 2 From that time forward my search has been for growth, understanding and progress. A love for learning, delving deeply into our philosophy, and personal spiritual attainment are firmly embedded and will never end—even when I reach the next sphere. My prayer is that I may teach our beliefs as honestly and as sincerely as they were presented to me and that lives will be touched in a profound way. It’s a life changer!”

He served as pastor of the Fort Wayne Metaphysical Church for over 20 years. He conducts spirit unfoldment classes and is active as guest musician for churches and at UMC Seminary.

Rev. Donna attended Southern Connecticut State College (now a university!) in New Haven, Ct. with a concentration in Liberal Arts. She also lived in Stuttgart, Germany from 1967 until mid 1969.

After years of focused study, inquiry, knowledge gathering and integration of her Spiritual Gifts as tools for everyday life, the message from Donna’s Spirit Guidance became very clear and very consistent early on: knowledge gained is meaningless if not shared and that life is a process of renewal and healing.

To acknowledge the lessons of Spirit and to be true to her soul’s journey she understood she had to portion the joys of personal study and seek validation of her gifts to give confidence to those to whom she was to transfer the knowledge, wisdom and skills from Spirit.

Donna embarked on an intense four year seminary program offered by The Indiana Association of Spiritualists at the Chesterfield Center of Light and was fortunate to study privately with some of the nation’s top mediums and wonderful spiritual healers. Upon completion of the seminary program, Donna was certified as a medium and ordained as a minister by Chesterfield, one of the oldest existing Spiritualist centers in the US. Donna continues to serve the Chesterfield Seminary program as a guest teacher and maintains a warm relationship with mediums/teachers on the grounds and other graduates of the Chesterfield Seminary Program.

Rev. Donna achieved her Reiki Master/Teacher degree in 1998 and also studies various healing modalities. Her healing classes such as Reiki I-III and Vibrational Healing are always highly attended wherever offered.

Always seeking more knowledge, stronger ability, new understanding of the power of spiritual healing, and new teaching methodologies, Rev. Donna travels to spiritual organizations through out the world seeking advanced knowledge and an opportunity to pass on the knowledge she has gained. She has visited and taught in Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, the Caribbean and throughout the US.

Donna consults with clients across the US and abroad and offers development classes, workshops/seminars, consultations and circles. Although based in the Atlanta, Georgia area, Donna travels extensively as a minister, channel, psychic medium, healer, and teacher. The mother of two, Donna is a highly valued and accomplished senior manager and business consultant with over 30 years experience in the technical training and professional services arenas of Corporate America.

Rev. Donna was sanctioned as a Minister, Medium and Healer by the United Metaphysical Churches which she lovingly serves as a member of the Education Department, a staff educator, Newsletter Editor and Secretary of the National Board of Directors. Her energies are dedicated to the Seminary Program, adjunct educational programs and to providing understanding of Divine Metaphysics as a way of life and the pathway to personal spiritual growth.

THOSE WE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE:

Rev. F. Reed Brown, President of the United Metaphysical Churches headquartered in Roanoke, VA, an exceptional, well known and highly respected  minister and medium, has been a friend and mentor in Divine Metaphysics and mediumship for many years. Rev. Brown, always generous in his support  and his transfer of knowledge, has been an important influence. Reverends are educated, but the education doesn’t necessarily make them a good minister. Rev. F. Reed Brown is  more than a good minister and Rev. Donna is grateful for his example.

Friendships serve as foundations in our life and  the unselfish encouragement,  mentoring, friendship and support of  so many wonderful people have contributed to wealth of knowledge she has gained from each and every one who has helped open her doors of awareness , compassion and understanding. Gifts received from so many who have passed into the world of spirit but continue to nurture and educate her…with the understanding that knowledge gained disappears if it isn’t shared.

RELATED PURSUITS:

• Private practice as a spiritual counselor, medium, trance channel, healer and teacher.
  • Delivers weekly and monthly spiritual education classes. These classes cover all areas of personal growth including mediumship, healing, metaphysics and meditation
• Dedicated to all aspects spiritual growth and conscious integration of spiritual knowledge into daily life.
• Participant in the brain trust of Lockhart and Associates which is a team focused on creating strategic growth for clients by facilitating changes the new economy requires to achieve success. The brain trust is comprised of founder Rev. Lisa Lockhart, Rev. Christopher Dilts, and Rev. Donna Fitzgerald. The brain trust promotes conscious solutions for performance initiatives in the workplace.
• Co-founder of Psychic Adventures which provides metaphysical education in an interactive environment focused on helping others engage with the energy of the Universe to release their personal power to create, manifest and unleash a boundless relationship which changes the canvas of individual lives.

Metaphysics was always an unrecognized undercurrent in my life, having first heard Spirit as a young child after a close encounter with a car getting off a school bus.

In 1986 I began attending the First Spiritual Church of Bay City to begin formal study of my metaphysical experiences.  Soon after joining, I was asked to be the church Board Secretary.  I was certified by the United Metaphysical Churches as a Medium and Spiritual Healer in 1991.   I moved up to Board President in 1998 and also the Pastor in 2002, after my UMC ordination in 2001.

Two years after being elected the local Board Secretary, I was appointed to a Trustee position on the United Metaphysical Churches Executive Board to fill a vacancy left by Rev. Joyce Dix.  I served in that capacity from 1989 until 2008 when I was elevated to the position of Vice President.  In addition, I was appointed as co-chair person of the UMC Education Department as well as teach in the UMC Seminary.  My areas of expertise include Metaphysical Ethics, Modern Metaphysical Literature, Introductory Metaphysics and Viking Runes as a Divinational Tool.

In 1991 I married Roger W. Schlack, a Commercial Mechanical Contractor and reside with him at our horse farm in Dryden, MI.  We raised and trained Percheron draft horses for showing in hitch classes and in hand until we retired from the show ring in 2007.  We keep one mare, a home-bred from our “six-up” registered mare hitch, as a retiree.

When not at work for the Bay City congregation or UMC, I enjoy antiques, reading and container gardening.  I still do the occasional riding clinic for some of my former students who now are themselves trainers.

Scott Morgan

He is certified to teach meditation to children (Sarah Wood Vallely, 2011) and trains actors in the craft of speech and mindfulness. For UMC, Scott teaches Public Speaking for Seminarians.

Rev. Perry returned to school in 1981 when his interests led him into the Medical field.  He has 22 years of experience working with critical care patients in the Hospital prior to his affiliation with UMC. He is a Nationally Accredited Respiratory Therapist and Registered Polysomnographic Technologist. Rev. Perry was also privileged to travel the United States testing and credentialing other Polysomnographic Technologists for two years.

Rev. Perry currently serves on the UMC National Board, and is an Ordained Minister and Certified Medium with United Metaphysical Churches.  He is also the Pastor and President of the Board of Trustees of the Roanoke Metaphysical Chapel.

• Wrote and published: A Collection of Metaphysical Sermons (InstantPublisher 2006) Worlds in Verse, poetry collection (InstantPublisher 2005) The e-mazing @dventures of Jay Pegg, children novel,(1stBooks, 2002)

• Current writing and research include: lectures, articles, presentations, translations, course materials, metaphysical sermons, verse poetry, children’s novels

1999-2000 Active Media Inc. Great Falls, VA Interface and Webdesign Consultant for online advertising agency

• Website creation, user interface, content integration (volunteer) 1995-1999

America Online, Inc Dulles, VA International Quality Assurance Engineer, AOL International

• Verification, validation, assessment of AOL Canada software
• Prioritization of fixes, group coordination, documentation and test plans

Assistant Technical Producer, AOL Greenhouse

• Recommended for promotion to Technical Producer
• Creation of User Interface and building of online content areas
• Acted as technical reference to outside partners and content providers

1995 Washington Flyer Magazine
Editorial Production Department

1994-1998 Washington Journal Newspaper
Writer, Reporter, Photographer for German language newspaper, part-time

Recently Rev. Vi has expanded her ministry by organizing her company, Spiritual Pathways LLC, where she offers Past Life Exploration, Readings, Spiritual Healing, Spiritual Coaching and various classes, workshops, and teachings.etc.  She travels around the country serving churches and other organizations as well as teaching her own weekly Mediumship Development class as well as other private work.

Rev. Vi’s Metaphysical experience includes study with Rev. Virginia Leach Falls, well known Medium from Muncie, In. 1981-1991. She has also taken most of the classes offered in the UMC Seminary Program.  She also attends a variety of workshops and classes as part of her continuing education and is an avid reader.  Recently she has been taking training in Animal Health and Healing.  She was also the Pastor of the First Church of Spiritual Science in Muncie, IN for 3 years.

Ms. Schonhardt has a B.A. in English and Journalism, an M.A. in English and Journalism, and an M.A. in Education, with a major in Guidance & Counseling.  All of her degrees are from Ball State University, Muncie, IN.  She taught in the Indiana Public School System for 18 years, and at the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Home, In Knightstown, IN for 17 years.  She currently resides in Timberlake, NC where she enjoys gardening, being outside, and playing with her dog Yanni.

Sandra is a life-long resident of the Mid-Michigan area. She retired after 29 years in the judicial system, ending her career as a probation agent for 75th District Court in Midland. She began her journey with First Spritual Church of Bay City in 1997 and was ordained a Minister-Missionary and Medium with the United Metaphysical Churches in 2007. Sandra is currently the FSC Vice President of the Board of Trustees. In 2007 she was also elected a Trustee for the United Metaphysical Churches Executive Board and is currently co-chair person of the education department as well as a seminary teacher.