Swallowtail Retreat Leadership Team Information

Meet the Swallowtail Retreat Leadership Team

Maren Chamorro

Maren Chamorro has had the privilege to work in the jewelry industry for over 15 years. Before she had three jewels of her own, she would frequently travel overseas as a buyer. Her passion for selecting top quality and unique gems translates to how she sees others through Christ. She has a strong desire to help women understand that they are all priceless because of the Cross.

Michelle Deuz

Michelle is the Prophetic Company Director at the Mission Church in Vacaville, CA. Her prophetic understanding, insight, and wisdom have a strong pastoral underpinning which expresses itself in teaching, coaching and mentoring. Revealing and exposing divine strategies and wisdom within the prophetic is Michelle’s passion and anointing. She is in her element when she is helping people step into their identity and destiny as they recognize and move into the call of God in their lives. The heart of her message is always the love of the Father inviting the listener into a deeper relationship rooted in love, trust, and intimacy.

Jennifer Jackson

Jennifer Jackson is an executive business leader in the legal technology and computer forensics industry. She is also a board member for non-profits and an ordained minister. She is passionate about helping women step into their identity and lead as God has called them and does this by mentoring and championing women both formally and informally.

Jennifer started her first company at 23 years old. She was named entrepreneur and lifestyle leader of the year by the Chamber of Commerce in the 90s for e-commerce business growth and education. She sold the business by age 30 and joined a Fortune 200 corporation in legal technology services and has continued to lead award-winning sales teams and launch companies for the following 20+ years.

Jennifer spends her time outside of work ministering in the US and across Africa with the focus of discipling nations by raising kingdom leaders to disciple nations. She has wholeheartedly accepted the directive that "Businesses are the new churches and mission field and business leaders are the new missionaries." There is no separation of business and ministry in this season.

Amy Lykosh

Amy Joy Lykosh is an author, mentor, and entrepreneur. Through her ministry Workplace Prayer and her coaching program Prayer Mentoring, both run with Bob Perry, she covers businesses in prayer and raises up intercessors to do the same. She lives outside Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband and five sons.

Andy Mason

Andy Mason comes from New Zealand and has 15+ years experience helping individuals and organizations discover and align with purpose, then develop practical steps to make dreams a reality.

He has worked for a national consultancy firm and leading financial institution as well as investing in international community development.

Andy is the director of Heaven in Business and has written three books including God With You at Work, Dream Culture: Bringing Dreams to Life and Finding Hope in Crazy Times: Daily Stories of Hearing God. Andy and his wife, Janine, live with their four children in Pennsylvania.

Janine Mason

Janine is the real brains behind Heaven in Business. In addition to being an outstanding mom of four powerful young adults, Janine's super power is asking highly perceptive questions that quickly reveal the heart of the matter. For the last two decades Janine has been Andy's strategic business, personal and life advisor (and best friend)!

Janine's background is in horticultural consulting and adult education. She is also an accomplished life coach working with individuals and small groups. Janine has authored multiple books including Dream Culture: Bringing Dreams to Life and Kingdom Tools for Teaching: Heavenly Strategies for Real Classrooms

Bob Perry

For more than forty years, Bob Perry’s single request has been, “Lord, teach me to pray.” After decades in the spheres of church, missions, and entertainment, he has now turned his prayer focus to the business world. He lives in East Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, and enjoys spending time with his four adult children.

Dr. Sharon Perry

Dr. Sharon Homeyer Perry has a PhD from Omega Graduate School in the Sociological Integration of Religion and Society with targeted research in spirituality and mental health. With M.A. and B.A. degrees in dance and theatre she desires to bring beauty and healing to the world through prayer and the arts. As an artist she has over 40 years of experience teaching the arts and their impact on culture. She loves to incorporate artistic expression in her journey with God as well as releasing others to be free in their creativity and intimacy with God. As a professor she has taught doctorate students courses in communication skills, transformational leadership, and professional ethics. She has taught prayer and spiritual direction to women in her community including at prisons and county jails. As a Spiritual Director she has led men and women in contemplative prayer as well as silent retreats. She is certified in Benedictine and Ignatian spirituality and leads individuals in a 34-week course in contemplative prayer around the life of Jesus. She is currently training as a certified Life Coach with Lifeforming Leadership Coaching. She spent over eleven years as a missionary with her husband and four children in the former Soviet nation of Latvia as a church planter and as a professor. She has extensive experience in teaching overseas and throughout the United States. She now resides in Nashville, TN with her husband Bob Perry.