Enhance

the overall Well-Being of your Employees

Every 4 minutes

an employee contacts one of our Chaplains

Lowest Ratio

of Chaplains to Employees

Male, Female

and Ethnically Diverse Chaplain Care Teams

Personalized, Proactive,

24/7, Nationwide Care

Improve Employee

Engagement and Culture

Some companies we are proud to serve:

White Paper – Employee Wellness: Mental Health and Workplace Chaplaincy

This White Paper presents data on the current state of employee mental health and the workplace implications of mental health issues. It discusses what businesses are currently doing to help their employees and explores statistics, testimonials, and actual stories of effective care provided to help employees with depression, anxiety, hopelessness, burn out, PTSD, suicidal ideation, loneliness, grief, and more.

Download Our Whitepaper

Employee Care Service

Marketplace Chaplains provides personalized and proactive employee care through the use of dedicated Chaplain Care Teams for each company location. Chaplains are voluntary to use, neutral from company operations, and conversations with them are strictly confidential.

Male, female, and ethnically diverse chaplains are either full time or assignment-based depending on company locations and number of employees served. Our chaplain teams make regularly scheduled work site visits.

Employee Care is NOT a video, a website, an e-book, or a booklet!

How It Works

Fox Business

Mission Statement

Marketplace Chaplains exists to share God’s love in the workplace by providing an employee care service through Chaplain Teams.

Excellent Chaplains
Exceptional Care
Every Employee

People don’t care who solves their personal problems, they just want their problems solved!

Workplace Chaplain

/CHaplen/
noun

Part of a designated care team for employees
Available 24/7 for help with life issues and crisis events
- separate from the company
- confidential
- employees choose if, when, where, and what they want to talk about
- available to all, regardless of background

Core Values

PEOPLE with Exceptional Care

TRANSFORMATION with God’s Love

MARKETPLACE with Chaplain Teams

EMPOWERMENT with Quality Training

Our Experienced, Trained, Called and Professional Chaplains Make the Difference!

Meet some of our 1,800 nationwide chaplains:

Fulltime Chaplain Coach Lynn Presson

Lynn Presson began her journey with Marketplace Chaplains nearly a decade ago. She followed her husband into this unique calling and, side by side, they served thousands of employees across the state of Texas for many years. He passed away, but together they shared a love that stretched over 37 years and gave Lynn four beautiful children. Before children came along, she was in radio and communications. Post-children, she used her growing knowledge and love of parenting kids to help grow a preschool ministry in her local church. Throughout her 20’s and 30’s she worked in children’s and women’s ministry. Her passion for loving and understanding all ages and types of people continued to grow, so she took on a new role as activities coordinator for senior adults in an assisted living community. With this experience, Lynn realized her joy in life was heightened by encouraging ALL types of people from all ages, stages, and walks of life. This is why she truly felt called and equipped to take on the challenge of walking alongside employees from every age and walk of life in the marketplace. She extends her care and compassion to her clients on a daily basis. Lynn joined us as a part-time chaplain, served as an area team leader, moved into the role of full-time chaplain, and is currently a chaplain coach in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Chaplain Coach Cheri Ashburn

Education

BA – University of Georgia – Journalism

Professional

Editor, Computer Graphics Artist and Corporate Trainer with various Consulting Firms

Stay-at-home Mom for 10 years

With Marketplace Chaplains since 2008

Fulltime Chaplain Coach Julio Ba-Gonzalez

Education

Diploma of Theology

Bachelor of Theology

MA in Religion

Doctorate in Christian Counseling

Professional Experience

High School Teacher

Missionary to Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico and USA 1989-2005

Pastor

Radio Host

Conference Speaker to Latin America, South Africa and Asia

With Marketplace Chaplains since 2006

Chaplain John Salas

11 years as Pastor/Bible teacher in Mexico City
1-1/2 years with Marketplace Chaplains in Mexico
7 years bi-vocational pastoral service in Dallas
13 years as a Coordinator for Consolidated Freightways
Social Case Worker for Troubled Youth with Bethany Family Services
BAS in Christian Ministries from Dallas Baptist University
Bilingual
With Marketplace Chaplains since 2003

Chaplain Coach Rick Cooper

Electrical Engineering Degree, Prairie View A&M
Masters, Christian Education, DTS, Doctoral Candidate
Flight Testing F-16’s

With Marketplace Chaplains since 2014

Chaplain Anita Pickelheimer

Master’s Degree in Psychiatric Nursing
Clinical Nurse Specialist for 24 years at two major medical centers in Chicago
Her passion is to bring God’s wholeness into peoples’ lives most often through the open door of life struggles.
With Marketplace Chaplains since 2006

Chaplain Zuey Castellanos

Education

Various Child Care Development courses in CA and MS

Professional

18 years as Child Care Provider, YMCA Elementary Site Director Before and After School Program, Camp Counselor

Bilingual Spanish and English

Worship leader and serves in Music Ministry with family

Husband is Pastor

Chaplain K.T. Thomas

Education

B.A. in Science

M.A. in Philosophy and Religion

M.S.W. in Social Work

Professional

Retired from Mental Health Services Industry

Lifelong lay leader

Assistant coach of high school tennis team

Serves at Bickford Senior Living

With Marketplace Chaplains since 2002

Chaplain Tera McFarland

BBA, Accounting
Masters, DTS
Professional Marital and Family Counseling Background
With Marketplace Chaplains since 2013

Chaplain Rick Allen

Education

BA from Biola University in Southern CA
MDiv. and DMin. in cross-cultural missions from Western Seminary in Portland, OR
With Marketplace Chaplains since 2013

Professional

17 years of mission work in Argentina followed by
13 years on Administrative Staff at home office in the States
Spanish and English speaker

With Marketplace Chaplains since 2013

Chaplain Henry Hammons

Education

University of Texas, Austin – various management courses

Professional and Management experience at Chevron Oil Corporation

Human Resources

Strategic Planning

Marketing

Public Relations

With Marketplace Chaplains since 2013

Chaplain Daneen Anderson

Education

Intercultural Studies, Master of Divinity graduate school currently

Completed MA Theological Studies

Personal

Widowed at a young age. Raised two boys in Chicago.

Currently pastors a church started by her father.

With Marketplace Chaplains since 2017

Professional Chaplain Training Academy

Learn how we train professional workplace chaplains.

TRAINING ACADEMY