Robert Mendes is a Marriage and Family therapist with over 20 years of experience in Christian based Marriage, Individual and Family counseling with a Master's Degree in Family Therapy from Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy MA. He has functioned as a Social Services Supervisor, a Human Services Manager as well as a Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider in the states of Virginia, California and Massachusetts where he was born and began his career. He is also a Pastor for Praise Chapel Christian Fellowship where he was ordained in 1997, and pioneered as a Church Plant for 11 years in the state of Virginia. He and his beautiful wife Analina currently co-facilitate Marriage Seminars and have 4 adult children and several grandchildren. His vast and varied experience have provided him with great insight and perception which is evident in his fi rst book the Jonah Project.