Judith’s Bio
Judith Doctor
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Co-founder of Kairos Ministries Inc., Judith
Doctor, MSW, RN, leads seminars, workshops, and groups for
spiritual growth, inner healing and wholeness in the United
States and Europe. Teaching from a wealth of knowledge, insight,
and personal experience gained through more than thirty years of
adventuring with God, she helps others find the freedom and
fulfillment she has discovered.
Combining her healing gifts, empathy, and love with her
experiences with a loving Heavenly Father, she illustrates
life-giving principles from scriptures and her own life. A
paradigm breaker, Judith helps us see beyond the limitations
that bind us to our present point of view and keep us from
experiencing more of God in our lives.
She offers a bridge for people who are no longer satisfied with
old religious forms and want to enter into a “new and living
way”. She encourages them to leave behind their old dead ways
and learn a new way of thinking and being, a way that belongs to
people who seek the Kingdom of God within them.
In sharing her struggles and understanding in her walk with God,
Judith lights the pathway for others on a spiritual walk,
seeking to know God in a personal way. Her mission is to help
people become spiritually alive, whole and mature, find their
true identity in Christ, and fulfill their God-given destiny.
Teaching approach
In her teaching and ministry, Judith emphasizes that one of
God’s great goals for us is wholeness. She carefully integrates
Biblical knowledge, personal experiences, and awareness of
psychological principles into practical tools and techniques for
spiritual growth and personal wholeness.
Rooted in her rich experiences with God, her words reach beyond
the intellect to the deep heart. She stresses the importance of
learning to function as a spiritual Christian—to
hear God’s voice and be led by His Spirit. She also asserts that
truth is a powerful ally in our quest for something more.
Judith is skilled at facilitating healing experiences in a group setting. She creates a safe, loving emotional environment
in which class and workshop participants are able to speak about
themselves in an honest and open way. Weaving a pattern of
teaching principles, creative exercises and personal encounters,
she creates opportunities for discovery, insight, and
understanding.
Her teaching techniques make use of both inner and outer
resources to help facilitate self-discovery, insight, and
growth. By working with a variety of media, their personal
symbols, dreams, and emotional processing, participants are
enabled to go beyond the confines of their rational minds into a
deeper part of their being and, hence, see their lives more
clearly.
Judith believes in the value of involving people in their own
learning process. She provides direction for interacting with
the principles and concepts she teaches—”making one’s own
experience and reflecting upon them in the company of others
helps to create restorative and redemptive moments.”
Voice of personal experience
In her search for the freedom and fulfillment spoken of in the
Scriptures, Judith has experienced first-hand the presence of
God’s Spirit, the power of resurrection life, and the indwelling
Christ. Through the crises of her life, Judith came to know a
living God who brought resurrection life in the death of a son
from leukemia, in her battle-worn marriage, and deep inside her
troubled soul.
Judith has learned how to surrender in a deep inner way—a heart
surrender into the hands of a loving Heavenly Father. Judith is
passionate about her work because she has experienced for
herself God’s healing power as He healed her of wounds and
traumas from her own childhood.
God re-parented her, laid a sound psychological and spiritual
foundation in her, and healed her from emptiness, loneliness,
self-rejection and self-hatred. He freed her from the lies woven
deep into the structures of her personality and transformed her
inner picture of herself. As a culmination of these transforming
experiences, Judith saw an unfolding of her true self, no longer
wearing a mask or playing a role, enabling her to function at a
deep, authentic level.
With new meaning and purpose for her life brought by her
understanding of her true identity, Judith radiates genuineness
and aliveness. She is aware of her oneness with Christ within
her, and has learned the inner reality of being a co-creator
with the Living God. Because she is not pulled by the demands of
the Law or driven by a sense of duty to pay lip service, Judith
can function by what is in her heart and embrace her life
enthusiastically.
Judith’s ministry is marked by deep compassion and empathy for
those who are in pain and are spiritually hungry. Leveraging her
own personal successes in dealing with serious issues of life,
she teaches people how to stop playing the role of victim and
start addressing their personal problems in a healthy,
life-giving way. She helps others come to Jesus and encourages
them to have ongoing personal encounters with the risen Christ.
Personal background
In 1939, Judith Vanderberg Doctor was born into a commercial
fishing family of German-Dutch and French-English ancestry. The
eldest of six children, she grew up in an alcoholic family
system, inheriting an emotional legacy of fear, tension, not
feeling loved or valuable, guilt, and rejection. Baptized as
an infant in the Methodist Church, her mother pointed her to God
by sending her to Child Evangelism programs and Sunday School in
the nearby Bible Church.
Judith became a nurse and married Gerald Doctor in 1959.
Together, they continued their Christian walk in a Baptist
Church and other evangelical groups. When their son was
diagnosed with leukemia in 1971, Judith began an intense search
for a personal relationship with God. She wanted something more
than just trying to be good, following rules and laws; she
needed to experience God for herself. Her quest brought her into
contact with many different ministries from a variety of
Christian backgrounds—both
Catholic and Protestant.
Judith received the baptism of the Holy Spirit at the age of 30,
and then in 1990 at the direction of the Holy Spirit she became
a Catholic. She is passionate about her work because she has
experienced for herself God’s power as He healed her of wounds
and traumas from her own childhood in an alcoholic family.
Today, Judith is a vibrant and dynamic woman who hardly fits any
“traditional” Christian mold.
Her years of Christian experience and leadership include
evangelism, various church programs, young people’s ministries,
home and church Bible studies, The New Life, Inc. projects,
Spring Hill Camp programs, and hosting tours to Israel. She also
served as president of Lexington, MA Woman’s Aglow chapter,
State Coordinator of Lydia (intercessory prayer ministry), and
conference coordinator for The Institute of Christian Counseling
and Therapy in Narberth, PA.
Since 1978, Judith and her husband, Gerald, have been part of The
New Life, Inc., an interdenominational ministry with a community
of both Protestants and Catholics. Married 52 years, Judith &
Gerald have two adult sons and their families, including four
young grandchildren.
Adventuring with God
Throughout the past three decades, Judith has been led by the
voice of the Holy Spirit within her, inspiring her to step
beyond her comfortable boundaries, accept new challenges and
expand her life. As a result of adventuring with God, she has
enjoyed many incredible experiences.
As a Christian speaker, teacher and writer, since 1985 Judith
has addressed a wide variety of groups in the United States and
in Europe. In addition to speaking to churches, women’s groups,
and Women’s Aglow chapters, she has addressed such diverse
groups as The Institute for Christian Counseling and Therapy,
Oxford Senior Center, Exodus, and Parish Nurses.
Judith has published an article in The Journal of Christian
Healing, and two articles in Asociaţia De Nursing Din
România journal.
Doorway to Europe
Between 1987-1991, the Lord prepared the way for Judith to visit
several clinics in Germany devoted to healing the soul and
spirit. In 1991 she was invited to help with the spiritual
aspect of a psychosomatic clinic in the south of Germany.
Through her time at this clinic, God opened the door to Europe
for Judith.
In a dream in 1994, Judith saw a large map of Europe, with
little points of light turning on all over Europe. In particular
she saw more lights in the Braunschweig, Germany area, even
though she did not know Braunschweig at the time. A man in the
dream said that God was going to send Judith to Europe as His
ambassador. Believing God was speaking to her in the dream, she
began ministering in Europe approximately twice each year.
Judith has presented workshops at the ChristusZentrum
Braunschweig, and has spoken at both the Wolfsburg and
Braunschweig chapters of the Christen im Beruf e.V. Full Gospel
Business Men's Fellowship, International. In addition to
presenting workshops at the Adula Klinik in Obersdorf and at the
Hochgrat Klinik in Wolfsried, Judith has spoken to Förderkreis
(Association for Medicine of the Whole Person) in Bad Herrenalb,
and also to the Women’s Aglow chapter in Frankfurt.
Radio Horeb ministry
From October, 2001 to October, 2002, Judith and Gerald lived in Braunschweig, Germany, ministering inner healing and encouraging
believers through workshops, classes, lectures and
faith-building conversations. During this time, the Lord also
opened up an opportunity for Judith to have a monthly one-hour
radio transmission on Radio Horeb, which is affiliated with
Radio Maria in Rome. She continues doing this program, focusing
on inner healing through the Holy Spirit, from her home in the
USA via telephone to Germany one Sunday morning each month.
Ministry in Romania
Judith has presented seminars and workshops to a variety of
groups in România, including Pro Vita (a pro-life Christian
ministry). In October 2000, and again in October 2001, she
presented lectures at the annual conference of Asociatia De
Nursing in România. She has spoken to the Radiu Leukemia
Foundation in Bucharest, and on a number of occasions she has
lectured and conducted workshops with nurses throughout România.
She has also taught at the Baptist Nursing School in Bucharest
and spoken on the radio for Sibiu Radio Vocea Evangheliei.
Educational Background
Judith is a graduate of Hackley Hospital School of Nursing
(1960) and of Central Michigan University (1994). She is a
registered nurse and has a bachelor of Science degree in
Community Development (BSCD). In August 2005 Judith received an
MSW (Masters in Social Work) degree from Grand Valley State
University.
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