Amanda M. Payne Nurse · Teacher · Builder
Amanda M. PayneNurse. Teacher. Builder.

I see what's happening in your life, and what's happening underneath it.

Have you ever fixed something, felt better for a season, and then watched it come right back? Usually that's because only half of it was ever treated.

I look at both halves. Then we deal with both, practically and at your pace, until you're standing in the calling that has been in front of you all along.

Amanda M. Payne
Amanda M. PayneRN · BSN · Ph.D(c)
The Method

How I actually work

Whichever door you come through, I make the same six moves every time, whether I'm with a coaching client, a daughter at the altar, or a room full of people on a Saturday morning.

We cannot change what we are unwilling or unable to see.

Move One

I see the whole person

I start with you, not the problem you brought.

Move Two

I name what is really happening

So I name it: plainly, out loud, in one sentence you can carry home.

Move Three

I translate

Complicated things, made plain enough to act on.

Move Four

I build a pathway

Insight has to go somewhere. Everything ends with a step.

Move Five

I put you with people

I don't build audiences. I build houses.

Move Six

I form you for what is next

Not dependence. Formation.

Where I learned to look

Then God gave me eyes for the rest of it.

For years I worked as a registered nurse. That job trains you to read a body: what's really going on, what it's compensating for, what's about to give out. After a while you start hearing the things patients don't say.

Then God gave me eyes for the rest of it.

Now when I sit with someone, I'm watching two things at once: the life in front of me, and whatever is standing underneath it. Most of us got help with one and never had anyone touch the other. That isn't a character flaw. It's a missed diagnosis.

I'm a nurse who was given eyes for what's underneath. Everything I do comes out of that.

Nursing isn't one of the three rooms below. It's how I see in all of them , and it's why I'll hand you a plan when a pep talk won't do.

Find your door

One altar. Three rooms.

I teach the Word. I keep the Watch. I build the Work.

People sometimes ask how I run three ministries. I don't. They're three rooms off the same altar , and all of it starts in the same place, at the same early hour, before anything else in my day.

Come in through whichever door is yours.
You'll end up in the same house.

The Word · Teaching

"I want to know what God actually said."

You're tired of being motivated. You want something you can stand on. I'll show you how to read the text for yourself, so you aren't borrowing my conclusions.

Acts Alive Ministries→
The Watch · Prayer

"I need to pray, and I don't want to do it alone."

You feel the pull to the wall. What you need is a house to pray in, and someone who can teach you to stand there without burning out.

Daughters at the Gates→
The Work · Coaching

"I need structure under what I'm carrying."

A business, a ministry, a calling that won't get off the ground. You probably have plenty of vision. What's missing is order.

Threshold Enterprise→

Not sure which one fits? Come to a gathering first. You don't have to decide anything to come and see.

See what's coming up →
How I actually work →
The three words

Three words you'll hear me say a lot

I.Healing

The wound actually gets treated. It isn't covered up, renamed, or explained away.

II.Restoration

What was taken comes back: time, relationships, years, identity, ground.

III.Wholeness

Nothing broken, nothing missing. You stop living in pieces.

None of this stays theoretical, and it isn't a conference high that's gone by Tuesday. It happens in your real life, one step at a time, at a pace a real person can keep.

The short version of me

I'm a mother of five, a nurse, a teacher, and a builder.

I've been married and divorced three times. I've walked through trauma and illness, and through seasons when the only thing holding me up was a quiet room before sunrise. I'm not writing to you from the far side of all that, polished and finished. I'm writing from the middle of a life God is still restoring, and that's exactly why I can walk with you.

Read my full story →
What my week actually looks like

I teach. I pray. I build.

Teach

The Word, in depth. The original languages, the whole of Scripture, something you can build a life on.

Pray

Alongside people called to intercession, training them to carry it without breaking.

Build

Houses, structures, businesses, and the people who run them.

In all three I do the same thing. I don't hand you a finished answer. I walk the steps with you so you can see how it's done.

How I lead

Five things I won't bend on.

1

Identity before title. Lead from your position instead of from who you are, and the position will eat you alive. I learned that the hard way. You don't have to.

2

I'll walk with you, but I won't carry you. I can't, and I won't pretend I can. My job is to walk you to the One who can. I say that honestly, because He's carrying me right now.

3

I tell the truth in love. Kind truth is how people get free. Staying quiet just leaves you in the dark.

4

I build people, not logistics. Build the person and the person will build the house.

5

I guard rest. I keep a Sabbath and I take sabbaticals. I'll tell you to do the same, and I won't applaud you for burning out. Rest isn't a reward for finishing. It's part of the work.

Also on my tableLearn about these →
Nurses in Tech

For nurses moving into technology and innovation. Nurses are in the room when the system breaks, and we know exactly where it broke. That knowledge belongs where the tools get built.

Dolls House

For children who have lost a parent to death, injury, illness, or incarceration. Practical, in-person family care from people who don't disappear.

The Spirit of Slavery: From Captivity to Calling
The bookThe Spirit of SlaveryFrom Captivity to Calling Visit the book site→
Come and see

Wondering whether we'd be a good fit? Come to something. It's the quickest way to find out.

Start hereFormation Altar

Learn what God says — and let Him build you — before you are asked to carry anything.

1st and 3rd Saturdays · 9:00 AM ET · Online
Midnight Fire

Weekly prayer, late at night, with people who mean it.

Every Saturday · 11:45 PM ET · Online
The Builders' Table

Training for women who are going to lead their own group.

2nd Saturday · 9:00 – 11:00 AM ET · Online
Keepers Arise

One night a month, we stay awake and pray until morning.

Last Saturday · 11:45 PM – 6:00 AM ET · Online