Where Faith, Mental Health and Community Intersect:
Healing Communities. Empowering Leaders. Transforming Lives.
Transforming pain into purpose. Moving people, servant leaders, and faith communities from silence and stigma into support, strength, and wholeness.
Chelsealya "Coach Cookie" Payne
Founder & Visionary
"Turn pain into purpose. Turn faith into action. And leave communities healthier than we found them."
HEALING PEOPLE. STRENGTHENING LEADERS. TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES.
PAYNE & Glory, Inc. is a faith-driven nonprofit creating safer, healthier, and more informed communities through mental health advocacy, trauma-informed education, domestic violence awareness and prevention, leadership wellness, and community partnerships.
We serve individuals, ministry leaders, churches, faith-based organizations, and communities with practical resources, courageous conversations, and healing-centered experiences designed to move people from silence and stigma to support, strength, and wholeness.
Creating safe spaces for honest, transformative conversations.
Our Work
Four distinct yet unified pathways addressing real-world challenges through courageous dialogue, practical tools, and restorative safe spaces.
Pain in the Pews: Mental Health and Ministry™
We create safe spaces for honest conversations about mental health within faith communities—helping reduce stigma while connecting individuals, churches, and leaders with education, resources, and support.
What this looks like:
Conferences | Chat & Chews | Community Conversations | Mental Health Education | Resource Connections
Pain in the Pulpit™ — Serving While Wounded, Leading While Healing
"Those who care for everyone else need care, too."
We address the often-unspoken emotional and mental-health challenges of pastors, ministry leaders, intercessors, and other servant leaders—creating spaces where leadership and healing can coexist.
Includes the H.E.A.L. Leadership Hub™
Healing people. Healthy leaders. Stronger communities.
Domestic Violence Awareness & Prevention
We equip individuals, churches, and communities to recognize, discuss, and respond more effectively to domestic violence and trauma.
Through awareness, church safety protocols, survivor-centered advocacy, and community collaboration, we help create environments where silence is broken and safety matters.
Sustainable Change Happens Together
PAYNE & Glory partners with churches, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, civic leaders, and other mission-aligned organizations to bring relevant education and healing-centered programming directly into communities.
Engagement Options:
Workshops | Trainings | Speaking | Community Events | Strategic Partnerships | Resource Connections
There Is a Place for You Here.
Whatever door brings you to PAYNE & Glory, our goal is the same: healthier people, healthier leaders, and stronger communities.
Individuals & Families
For those navigating mental health challenges, trauma, domestic violence, healing, or life transitions and looking for faith-sensitive education, community, and resources.
Pastors & Ministry Leaders
For leaders who pour into others daily but also need confidential spaces for wellness, restoration, ongoing education, and honest, non-judgmental conversation.
Churches & Faith Communities
For ministries ready to become safer, more informed, and better equipped to proactively address mental health, trauma recovery, and domestic violence.
Community & Healthcare Organizations
For organizations seeking meaningful partnerships, cross-sector workshops, culturally responsive education, and community-centered wellness initiatives.
Advocates, Professionals & Partners
For counselors, advocates, clinicians, and community leaders who believe faith, mental health, and community resources should work together rather than in isolation.
The PAYNE & Glory Commitment
"Whatever door brings you to PAYNE & Glory, our goal is the same: healthier people, healthier leaders, and stronger communities."
Connect With Us TodayFrom Conversation to Transformation
PAYNE & Glory isn't hosting disconnected events. You have built an ecosystem designed to meet people and organizations along their journey.
Pain in the Pews™
Mental Health + Faith Bridge
Conferences, Chat & Chews, and congregational dialogues that shatter mental health silence.
Pain in the Pulpit™
Ministry Leader Wellness
Confidential restoration and peer spaces for pastors, ministers, and servant leaders.
H.E.A.L. Leadership Hub™
Ongoing Healing & Development
Structured leadership cohorts fostering emotional resilience and sustainable ministry.
Domestic Violence Awareness
Education + Survivor Advocacy
Trauma-informed prevention, church safety training, and dedicated survivor support.
Community Workshops
Practical Education & Training
Organizational consultation, specialized webinars, and faith-informed mental wellness curricula.
Strategic Partnerships
Collaboration + Expanded Impact
Connecting churches, civic leaders, and clinicians so resources reach every person in need.
THE CONVERSATION CONTINUES
12th Annual Pain in the Pews: Mental Health and Ministry™ Conference
"Real Talk. Safe Space. Whole Healing."
A gathering created to bring faith, mental health, lived experience, leadership, and community resources into the same room.
Special Feature: Pain in the Pulpit™
Dedicated track: Serving While Wounded, Leading While Healing for pastors, ministers, and servant leaders.
12th Annual Conference
December 5, 2026
Registration & Partnership Open
The Vision Is Bigger Than an Event.
Communities Where Help Is Normal
We envision communities where asking for help is not shameful, and where resources are within reach.
Welcoming Church Sanctuaries
Churches where mental health conversations are welcomed rather than whispered or stigmatized.
Restored Servant Leaders
Leaders who understand that healing and leadership are not mutually exclusive—and seek help safely.
Seen & Empowered Survivors
Survivors of domestic violence and trauma who are seen, protected, believed, and empowered.
Whole-Person Ministry
Faith communities fully equipped to respond to the whole person—mind, body, and spirit.
Building Tomorrow Together
That is the future PAYNE & Glory, Inc. is working to build every single day.
"That is the future PAYNE & Glory, Inc. is working to build."
More Than 20 Years of Purpose. And We're Still Building.
Founded in 2005, PAYNE & Glory, Inc. began with a commitment to empower, educate, and advocate. That commitment has grown into a broader movement addressing mental wellness, trauma, domestic violence, ministry leadership, and community healing.
In 2014, Pain in the Pews: Mental Health and Ministry™ expanded that mission by intentionally building a bridge between faith and mental-health communities.
Today, we are continuing to build that bridge—one conversation, one leader, one family, and one community at a time.
Chelsealya Payne, DCL (h.c.)
A Vision Born From Purpose
Chelsealya "Coach Cookie" Payne, DCL (h.c.)
Founder & Visionary
For more than two decades, Chelsealya Payne has championed conversations around purpose, healing, mental wellness, domestic violence awareness, and faith—using lived experience, ministry, advocacy, and leadership to create spaces where people can heal without shame.
Her Vision for PAYNE & Glory:
"Turn pain into purpose. Turn faith into action. And leave communities healthier than we found them."
Healing Takes Community.
You don't have to experience the problem personally to become part of the solution. There are many ways to help PAYNE & Glory expand its impact.
PARTNER
Bring PAYNE & Glory programs, conversations, or staff training directly to your church, workplace, or organization.
SUPPORT
Your financial contributions help make education, crisis resources, and healing-centered experiences accessible to all communities.
SERVE
Use your gifts, expertise, clinical insight, volunteer time, or community influence to help advance the mission.
CONNECT
Attend an event, join our mental health and ministry dialogues, or become part of our growing community network.
Silence Doesn't Heal People.
Safe Spaces Do.
Every honest conversation can break stigma.
Every informed leader can change a community.
Every safe space can become the beginning of someone's healing.
Let's build more of them. Together.
PAYNE & Glory, Inc. • Healing People. Strengthening Leaders. Transforming Communities.