Ideal joins the team as the Local Church Partnership Lead, bringing nearly 20 years of global ministry experience. Through her leadership with the Upper Room’s Walk to Emmaus movement and her role as a Lead Coach with Spiritual Leadership, Inc., she has witnessed the amazing, life changing power of God at work in families, ministries, communities, congregations and organizations.

These experiences have given Ideal the opportunity to see the vital importance of the Local Church and their leaders, both clergy and laity. Her passion lies in helping individuals discover who they are as God’s beloved and seeing them develop into the person they are meant to be. There is nothing more powerful than a thriving, flourishing church sharing the good news with the world. 

An experienced speaker at retreats, conferences, and women’s ministry events, Ideal is dedicated to helping women understand their worth and God’s deep love for them. This passion led her to publish I Am My Father’s Daughter.

Ideal has spent the last several years captivated by the beauty of the South while living in Nashville.  Growing up in central California gives her real appreciation for the beauty and distinct differences in God’s creation. She now resides in Arizona near her son, Kurt, and treasures her role as “Grandma Deal” to her beautiful granddaughters, Hana, Aubrey, and Haddie. Her favorite spot is by the ocean with her watercolors in tow.