Prison Ministry – Facilitator Training Manual

Valerie Hamann

Valerie Hamann was born in Germiston in 1967 and has lived in Cape Town since 2002. Val is the Missions Department Coordinator at Nehemiah Bible Institute (NBI) – an affiliate of Bible Media and Biblecor in Wellington. NBI also has a Prison Ministry Division that Val is actively involved in. Val belonged to two prison ministry organisations over a nine-year period, the Andrew Murray Centre and Kairos International where she was elected Vice-Chairman. Val achieved a distinction in pastoral care, spiritual warfare, emotional and physical healing, advanced counselling and child counselling, spiritual formation, spiritual growth and relationship management through New Life Ministries. She has also completed the bridging course that NBI offers to train church leaders for ministry development, for which she also got two distinctions with certificates issued by the University of Pretoria. Val is a qualified facilitator, assessor, commissioner of oaths, RPL advisor and registered as an affiliate of the Association of Religious Practitioners (ACRP). Val has also written various programmes for women’s group counselling, healing broken hurting women which includes topics like divorce recovery, anger and forgiveness, overcoming rejection and restoring self-esteem, that convey emotional healing. Val is often invited as a guest speaker to women’s events and runs her own workshops for women that need God’s healing touch. Val lives on a wine an olive estate, nestled in the beautiful Boland area of the Western Cape in South Africa, has three children. Her love for God and her passion for prison and women’s ministry are evident in the lives that she has touched.