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A PEOPLE’S MINISTRY

A Personal Statement of Calling, Biblical Order, and Mutual Respect

By Taveau D’Arcy

My calling has always been to people. Throughout many years of ministry, I have worked with, counseled, advised, listened to, and trained both men and women, with much of my ministry experience involving men, including Christian leaders, husbands, fathers, and fellow servants of the Lord.

I have never understood my calling primarily through the lens of gender. My concern is the condition of the human heart, the integrity of Christian leadership, the fear of the Lord, and the quality of our relationships with God and one another.

Perhaps it helps to understand something about my background and personality. I was raised with respect for men and women, including traditional understandings of marriage, family responsibility, and the husband as head of the home. I continue to respect that biblical understanding. Yet I also believe that biblical headship must be understood through the character of Jesus Christ, never as permission for domination, intimidation, or the diminishing of another person.

Ephesians 5:21 instructs believers, “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” I regard this as an essential principle of Christian character and relationship, including within marriage, ministry, and the wider Body of Christ.

I do not believe that mutual submission abolishes distinctions in responsibility or leadership. Rather, it requires that those who carry responsibility exercise it with humility, wisdom, accountability, and reverence for God.

In my own ministry, I am careful about the use of spiritual authority. I do not believe that having a calling gives me ownership over another person’s conscience, decisions, or relationship with the Lord. I counsel, teach, reason, and offer what I believe God has entrusted to me, while recognizing that each person must ultimately answer to Him.

I am not seeking to establish female superiority, challenge men simply because they are men, or enter into a competition for authority. That has never been my personal motivation or the pattern of relationships in which I was raised.

I have known and respected many honorable Christian men across racial, cultural, and denominational backgrounds. Men who demonstrate integrity, kindness, responsibility, spiritual maturity, and genuine respect for women deserve acknowledgment rather than suspicion.

At the same time, I have encountered religious teachings and ministry cultures that place excessive emphasis on gender, authority, rank, and submission, sometimes elevating men beyond biblical accountability while unnecessarily restricting or diminishing women. Such attitudes are not confined to any one race, denomination, or cultural group. They deserve careful biblical examination rather than personal accusation.

I believe the Church needs a renewed examination of these matters, not merely another human tradition or a fashionable response to contemporary culture. We must prayerfully seek the heart of God, study the Scriptures, and distinguish between genuine biblical order and traditions that may have become confused with divine authority.

On a personal note, I have never been particularly inclined toward the familiar stereotypes of feminine ministry. I often say that I do not think in pink. My colors are sunny yellow and happy sky blue! I enjoy relating to people as people, and I have often found a natural ease in working with men. This does not make me masculine, nor does it make other women less capable or less valuable. It is simply part of who I am.

My ministry is not built upon proving that I belong. I believe God has given me work to do, developed over time through Scripture, prayer, revelation as I understand it, experience, and many years of observing Christian leadership and relationships.

I believe there is room in the Body of Christ for men and women to serve according to God’s calling, without suspicion, rivalry, religious performance, or the constant need to establish who is more important.

My emphasis is EORR: Equal Opportunity REAL Respect, grounded in A.R.T. Abiding Relationship Theology. We are called to represent Jesus Christ faithfully, not merely defend our preferred religious arrangements.

This is a ministry to people. Its central concern is the heart of God, the Word of God, and the conduct of those who profess His name.

1 Thessalonians 5:12–13 (KJV)

Know Those Who Labour Among You

12” And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.”

Taveau D’Arcy

A.R.T. Abiding Relationship Theology

EORR Equal Opportunity REAL Respect

Cross Body Unity International

TAVEAU D’ARCY

The Maven of Apostolic Theology
Home of the EORR Cross Body Unity new movement. And of Ministry A.R.T.—Abiding Relationship Theology

Taveau D’Arcy is an apostolic servant leader, Bible teacher, writer, composer and ministry founder. Her work combines biblical study, mature leadership guidance, creative wisdom, original media and practical resources for people navigating ministry, life and relationships.

HER BACKGROUND

Taveau was raised in an educated Southern Baptist pastoral family surrounded by Bible teaching, church leadership, music and ministry service.

Her father was Senior Pastor Rev. Miley Kimball Johnson Jr.; her mother, Nonie Simons Johnson, was a Bible teacher; and her aunt, Senior Pastor Mary Catherine Wingfield, was another significant ministry influence.

Taveau received her foundational ministry call in 1976 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Religion from the University of Richmond.

She was classically trained in piano by a protégée of Sergei Rachmaninoff. She later served as a National Piano Guild instructor, taught many successful music students and became a CCLI songwriter.

Her creative work includes original worship music, instrumental music, biblical music education, articles, podcasts, videos and visual teaching resources.

LEADERSHIP FORMATION & EXPERIENCE

Taveau was ordained in 1996. Since approximately 1991, she has served in prophetic and apostolic ministry functions as a teacher, writer, pastor, founder and seer.

In 2004, an honorary doctorate in Sacred Music was conferred in recognition of her work developing a college-level music curriculum incorporating natural music education, biblical teaching, worship and music history.

Her ministry experience spans traditional, evangelical, charismatic, prophetic, apostolic, multicultural, grassroots and Cross Body settings.

Taveau regards apostle, prophet, pastor, teacher and evangelist as functions of service—not celebrity titles or positions within a religious pecking order.

She values God-given authority, mature accountability and safety in a multitude of wise counselors. At the same time, she rejects domination, celebrity culture, religious control and demands for unquestioning submission to one human leader.

Her leadership wisdom was not formed through education alone. It was also developed through what she calls her PhDs in “Pretty Hard Days” and “Piled High and Deep”—many years of ministry pressure, personal testing, perseverance and lessons learned in the School of Hard Knocks.

These experiences strengthened her commitment to truthful communication, healthy boundaries, biblical relationship protocol, servant leadership and respect for every human person.

MINISTRY VISION

“It’s not as much about the form, the look or the loot. It’s aboud bearing JEsus Christ fruit!” T. D’Arcy

Taveau Creative Leadership and EORR Cross Body Unity ,also IFFM and Teammate University. seek to support a generation of Christian leaders who demonstrate servant leadership, humility, biblical maturity and real respect for all.

Our vision is an Ephesians 4 community that presents the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ while welcoming and respecting people of every race, background, belief and faith.

For the sake of a Future Church, we address important questions involving ministry relationships, authority, true and false control, spiritual abuse, modern-day witchcraft, the prophetic and Christian leadership culture.

Taveau may teach, reprove, admonish or correct a ministry practice, but she refuses to word-curse, falsely accuse or devalue the human person.

In 2026, Taveau celebrates 50 years of Christian ministry formation and experience among rural, suburban, urban, multicultural, traditional, evangelical, charismatic and Cross Body settings.

TCL acknowledges the biblical gift of prophecy while rejecting occult practices, manipulation and self-important spiritual performance.

We sometimes use the description “perceiver-discerners” to keep the emphasis upon God—not personal skill, status or spiritual savvy.

People who embrace the Book of Acts and those who do not are both welcome. We do not impose a one-size-fits-all formula. Every teaching is submitted openly, allowing each person to study Scripture, pray and hear from God for themselves.

Our goal is to demonstrate the respect of Jesus Christ through truthful communication, creative wisdom, mature leadership and healthy relationships.

A.R.T.—ABIDING RELATIONSHIP THEOLOGY

Abiding Relationship Theology examines how Christians relate to God, themselves and one another.

A.R.T. emphasizes communication, healthy boundaries, mutual submission, accountability, reconciliation and Christlike relationships. It asks not merely what Christians believe, but how they behave while representing those beliefs.

EORR—EQUAL OPPORTUNITY REAL RESPECT

EORR means Equal Opportunity Real Respect for EVERY HUMAN made in the image of God” Psalm 139 (This means all persons, Christians and not, all governmental leaders, every race, age, size, gender, appearance, background, faith and person.

Taveau teaches that human beings are not stereotypes, property or conquests. Each person is an individual made in God’s image and worthy of dignity and real respect.

LEADERSHIP CONVICTIONS

• Character, spiritual fruit and respect matter more than titles, degrees or public status.

• Ministry offices are functions of service—not licenses for control, bias, accusation or personal empire-building.

• Christian correction should be private, direct, meek and restorative, according to Matthew 18:15–16 and Galatians 6:1.

• New Testament leaders should practice mutual submission according to Ephesians 5:21.

• Trust ultimately belongs to God rather than to human personalities, systems or religious princes.

• Biblical wisdom and revelation grow through personal relationship with God, Scripture, prayer, experience and mature accountability.

• There should be no “big I’s” or “little you’s” in the Body of Christ.

MINISTRY ENTITIES & FELLOWSHIPS

Taveau’s ministry and creative work include:

• Taveau Creative Leadership

• Taveau Teaching and Resource Center

• International Fellowship of Foundational Ministries—IFFM

• Cross Body Unity

• EORR Cross Body Unity Ministry Fellowship

• Celebration of His Word Music

• The Encouraging Word

TEACHING & CREATIVE WORK

Taveau writes and teaches about Christian leadership, ministry authority, church culture, the prophetic, hearing God, relationships, marriage and family, healing, faith, provision and practical Christian living.

She also offers creative wisdom, mature problem-solving, leader consultation and “iron sharpens iron” think-tank collaboration. There is no one-size-fits-all approach at Taveau Creative Leadership.

Her work reflects a multicultural, non-celebrity and Cross Body perspective. She describes herself as a resource—not as someone seeking to rule over others.

HER APPROACH

The Respectful James 3:17 fruit Submitted Selah Not autocratic, hard core dogma. Also this is without debating, accusing, talking against behind the scenes and on media.t t

This is about Apostle Paul Philippians 2:12 each Christ followers freedom to “work out their own salvation in fear and trembling” And the visionary apostle Taveau respectfully submits her perspectives for open-ended, noble Berean Bible study and Selah reflection. Her comments are not offered as authoritarian religious dogma.

Each person is encouraged to prayerfully study Scripture and work out their own salvation with fear and trembling, according to Philippians 2:12.

“It’s not that we won’t disagree; that’s a Pauline apostolic privilege. Rather, it’s HOW WE DO IT: Do we abide in the James 3:17 fruit of God’s ‘wisdom that comes from above’?”

—T. D’Arcy

PRESENT MINISTRY

Taveau presently serves from the Fort Mill, South Carolina–Charlotte, North Carolina region.

Through Taveau Creative Leadership and the Taveau Teaching and Resource Center, she offers Christian leadership mentoring, personal ministry guidance, speaking, teaching, training, media conversations and creative collaboration by appointment.

To contact Taveau, email tcreativeleadership@gmail.com.