FOUNDER AND CEO, MARIA DELAVAN, MA

Maria Delavan is a wife, mom, and lifelong horse lover.  When she was a young girl, horses were her refuge, and once she came to know Jesus as her Lord and Savior in 2004 she sold her horses at the prompting of the Holy Spirit to let God be what horses had been for her.  A few years later, while earning her bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies, Maria felt God calling her back into the horse world, this time with Jesus.  God began to give her a vision for Horse and Soul.  A few years later, Maria moved to Colorado where she attended and graduated Denver Seminary with a master’s degree in Christian Formation and Soul Care.  It was in Colorado that Horse and Soul was birthed in 2012 and Equine-Assisted Soul Care began. 

BOARD MEMBER AND SUPPORTER AMBER SHEARER

Amber Shearer is an ordained minister, pastor, and  church planter from the NorthEast and has experience leading Christian camps all over the United States.  She and Maria met in Seminary and have since been friends and prayer partners in ministry.