Stacey Wheeler, M.A.
Life Mission:
First and foremost, my mission is to love God and faithfully obey him. Second, my desire is to care for my husband, children, and grandchild and serve God and love people where he calls me to serve. My spiritual gifts include worship and intercession. After being a small part of the music industry in the world for four years, I made the decision to use my musical talents to serve God through worship in the church.
 
I was an English professor at Barclay College for seven years before feeling called into full-time ministry through FMI. For 23 years I was a full-time mother and pastor’s wife, which is a calling unto itself. Now my kids are adults, and I am feeling drawn to minister in new ways through intercession, writing, worship, and speaking. If you need a worship leader or a keynote speaker for a women’s event or parenting event, please email me at stacey@familyministryinstitute.com for more information. I speak on primarily three topics:
  • Marriage
  • Parenting
  • Setting the Captives Free

My desire is to see people find freedom and healing from the chains and broken areas that bind them. I was healed from an eating disorder that had me bound from 1983-1987. Through Tony’s love and the transforming power of God, I have been healed and have never returned to the terrible bondage and crushing darkness of an eating disorder. Whether you are enslaved to food, sex, drugs, alcohol, or co-dependency, Christ came to bring healing and freedom, and I feel called to help bring the Kingdom of God to hurting people in this area of pain. Christ came to set the captives free!
 
My heartbeat and mission come from Isaiah 61:1-3, (paraphrased): “to proclaim good news to the poor, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom for the captives, release from darkness for the prisoners, comfort all who mourn, and have a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.” Along with worship, I love to write, and my goal is to be an author and speaker who points people to the ultimate Provider, Healer, and Shepherd: Jesus Christ.
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.  He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.  They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.
ISAIAH 61:1-3
I love being a wife and mom, and now, grandma. With my undergraduate degree and master of arts degree in English, you can tell that I am a reader and a writer. I taught college-level English for seven years and greatly enjoyed working with the students. Partly because of my love for writing and reading, I enjoy using social media.

I love to spend time studying and reading scripture, allowing God to speak to my heart and minister to me and provide insight and resources to encourage and love others. I am always honored when I am able to speak or lead worship. I have a heart of compassion for hurting people and regularly intercede in prayer for my family and for people God puts on my heart. You can visit my facebook page under Stacey Long Wheeler or Instagram under staceydwheeler go to Arisemybeloved.com and also look at my daughter Adele’s blog at HomeChronicles or HomeChroniclesblog.com and if you want to see more about our family.
Author of Arise, My Beloved: Simple Suggestions for a Wonderful Wedding. Please see arisemybeloved.com for more information.
Family
Stacey has been married to Tony for 34 years. Tony and Stacey have always worked as a team, desiring to serve and honor God through a strong marriage and family. Tony’s gifts are leadership, exhortation, teaching, and counseling. They believe they have a calling on their lives to encourage people to seek first the Kingdom of God. They have ministered together since before they were married. Stacey speaks and leads worship and women’s ministry worship and events and Tony speaks, teaches, counsels, and develops programs to help families grow in the area of spiritual formation, marriage, parenting, and marriage and family ministry in general.
 
They are pioneers and entrepreneurs and are not afraid to try new things or work hard to achieve their goals. As a result, they started as youth pastors and have moved on to become associate pastors, church planters, family pastors, Director of Counseling, professors, and Tony has been a professional speaker (Tony has spoken at Dr. David Jeremiah’s church Shadow Mountain in San Diego, completed DVDs with Dr. John Trent on The Blessing, presented keynotes and workshops at the American Association of Christian Counselors, developed a graduate marriage and family course for Lighthouse University Online, spoken several times on the radio for Focus on the Family and Moody Radio, and taught courses as a guest lecturer, assistant, or professor at Kansas State University, Manhattan Christian College, Pepperdine, Moody Bible Institute, Moody Theological Seminary, Phoenix Seminary, and Barclay College. Stacey has been by his side helping him write materials and develop these messages and courses.) Their number one desire is to serve and obey God faithfully, and as such they have moved when they felt God directing them to move. They currently live in Haviland, KS.
 
Tony and Stacey have been married for 32 years and are thankful and blessed to have three grown children:
Isaac, 30
Adele Brown, 28, who is married to Shane Brown with thier daughter Ameilia Grace, 6.
Audrey Skinner, 24, who is married to Benjamin Skinner with thier one-year-old Judah James and she is pregnant with thier second child due December 2019.
Is there an area of your life that you consider to be in the “dry bone” category? God can do a miracle in your life!  God can breathe on “dry bones” to see them rise up and live again:

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!  This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.  I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.  So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.  I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.  Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’”  So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
EZEKIEL 37:4-10
Be encouraged today!  God can help you become an overcomer!

Meet the rest of the team

Wheeler Ministries is a family endeavor
DR. TONY WHEELER
Stacey's Husband,
Founder of WM & Family Counselor
ISAAC WHEELER, MFT
Tony's Son, Family Counselor