Pastor Julia Paintsil is the co-pastor of Purpose Ministries. As a counselor and Teacher of the Word, she is called to help bring wholeness to the Body of Christ through Biblically-based teaching and counseling centered on restoring individuals’ mental health and emotional wellness. Pastor Julia holds a B.S. in psychology and Christian counseling and M.S. in clinical mental health counseling and uses her rich lived experience in addition to her clinical training to help bring people to wholeness in Jesus Christ. She has spent the last 24 years teaching and counseling in the School of Marriage, a ministry she shares with her husband, Pastor John Paintsil, and she has mentored youth from across the country, fulfilling her passion to help lead young people to live freely in Christ. Her mission in life is to bring people’s whole beings— spirit, soul and body— into alignment with the Word of God and she lives out this mission offering personal, family, premarital counseling and marriage counseling services through her virtual office. Together, she and Pastor John are parents to three children.