Kevin Hrebik has been a full time Chaplain with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice since 2015, serving at a facility housing 2,200 women. He was a volunteer Chaplain at Harris Country Jail, with an average population of 10,000 inmates, for more than three years while conducting human research among male inmates for his Doctor of Ministry degree with a specialization in pastoral care. He has been a resident Chaplain at Memorial Hermann Hospital in the world renowned Texas Medical Center, and a resident Chaplain at M.D. Anderson Hospital, also in the Texas Medical Center. With these experiences, he earned a total of nine units of Clinical Pastoral Education. He is ordained, and also ecclesiastically endorsed by the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ. His side business is editing graduate and doctoral student papers and dissertations. He has been married to his wife, Cara, for 30 years, who has been a church administrator for the last ten years and has held numerous accounting and financial jobs in her career. They reside in Houston, TX; they attend Crosby Church in Crosby, TX
Kevin Hrebik, DMin, has more than 40 years' experience in most aspects of the writing and publishing world. He began as a typesetter, using a linotype machine in the 1970s. He has sold poetry, fiction, greeting cards, product texts, high school and adult Sunday school curriculum, scripture commentaries, and magazine articles. In 1987, he founded Living Streams magazine, a small press Christian writer's outlet.
Kevin has been a staff writer for Cornerstone magazine, editorial director for Abbey Press, assignment writer for Charisma magazine, and freelance copyeditor and proofreader for the publisher of the world-famous “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series.
He holds an AS in Journalism, a BA in Interpersonal Communication, a MA in Religion, and a DMin from Houston Graduate School of Theology with a specialization in pastoral care. He formally launched My Paper Whisperer in 2010 and began to focus on graduate and doctoral student papers, theses, projects, and dissertations.
Kevin's first book, The Carpenter's Shop and Other Metaphors is his testimony cast in a creative way. His first professional book, Repurposing Scars: Meaningful Life after the Enduring Damage of Trauma, is a "one-stop-shop" for caregivers of all types ministering to the traumatized in life. His third book, Applying Faith and Family Systems to Emotional Scars, is the curriculum that he has been presenting to inmates since 2010. His fourth book, The Special Message of Jesus' Scars is designed as a gift book for pastoral caregivers of all types.
