Our 1st Vice President, Luonne Abram Rouse LMFT

♰ Luonne Abram Rouse is an LMFT with 50+ years of experience integrating pastoral care, theology, and psychology through spiritually integrated psychotherapy (”cura animarum”, or care of souls). He is an associate professor of pastoral ministries, United Methodist and interfaith leader, psychosocial justice advocate, international ecclesiastical overseer, ethical multifaith spiritual advisor, author, and national pastor of First Church of American Slaves: www.slaves-usa.com

♰ Luonne Abram Rouse is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with more than five decades of experience serving individuals, couples, families, congregations, and communities at the intersection of clinical care, spiritual formation, and social justice. His work integrates clinical pastoral care, theology, and psychology through the historic practice often known as “cura animarum”—the “care of souls”—or spiritually integrated psychotherapy.

Grounded in the conviction that spiritual well-being is inseparable from emotional, mental, relational, and communal health, Rouse approaches healing with both clinical sensitivity and pastoral wisdom. His specialized framework honors the whole person: mind, body, spirit, relationships, culture, faith tradition, and lived experience. He supports persons navigating grief, trauma, family conflict, life transitions, identity, faith concerns, and the complexities of meaning and purpose.

Rouse serves as an Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministries and is recognized as an ethical and multifaith spiritual advisor, author, interfaith leader, and international ecclesiastical overseer. Rooted in Wesleyan-Methodist theology and Pentecostal-Charismatic practice, his ministry is further shaped by the Hebrew Charismatic Orthodox Paradigm. This perspective reflects a commitment to Scripture, Spirit-led renewal, sacred tradition, compassionate care, and accountable community. International Archbishop

A dedicated psychosocial justice advocate, Rouse brings particular attention to the ways historical trauma, oppression, inequity, and social conditions affect personal and collective well-being. His pastoral and professional work seeks not only individual restoration, but also healing within families, faith communities, and society.

♰ Luonne Abram Rouse is 1st Vice President of American Slaves, Inc. (ASI), and the National Pastor of the First Church of American Slaves, a ministry committed to remembrance, dignity, healing, spiritual resilience, and justice.