Sheila Wachtel

After three career changes from running a telecommunications business to being a Network Security Engineer and is now at home working on the farm. She lives with her husband of 16 years on a 128 acre farm near Mt. Gilead, Ohio. They organically raise crops and a variety of animals. They share 5 adult children and 7 grandchildren. She has a BS in Management Information Systems from Ohio State University, an MS in Network Security from Capitol College and 25 hours towards aTheology degree

Having rededicated her life to Christ and experiencing a radical freedom from alcohol and cigarettes. She has been active for almost 26 years as a small group leader, a children’s teacher, youth teacher and nursery worker. Currently she helps lead a house church and teaches a children’s group for the Ohio House Church, an association of several house churches.

Sheila has been to Israel twice. The first trip was for a personal understanding of the Bible. The second trip was for prayer and worship at various locations and Houses of Prayer. She has also been to Malta twice. The first trip was a faith journey where the Lord connected her group of four with a Maltese woman who ran a House of Prayer with the purpose of helping and encourage her. The second trip to Malta was to help the Maltese woman who is newly widowed with her young daughter while she was involved as a rare Christian candidate in the election.