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Dr. Huw Anwyl believes in embodying the Loving Spirit and encouraging us to respond to it and to live by it. He was born in Wales, served in the Royal Air Force in South Africa and later received his BA/MA from Cambridge University as well as a Doctorate in Ministry from San Francisco Theological Seminary. Dr. Anwyl has led congregations in London, Chicago, Hollywood and Riverside before coming to Laguna Niguel in 1992. As an advocate of human rights and social justice, he has been a global traveler. He recently completed a three-year term as Chair of the Resources and Development Committee of Church World Service that serves refugees all over the world. In this capacity his travels in recent years have included Bosnia, Nigeria, East Timor, Sudan and Iraq (2003). While critical of traditional Christianity that lacks a universal inclusive emphasis, he is an advocate of the best in Christian tradition and seeks the commonality in all religions. Dr. Anwyl views Christianity as potentially being one of the cohesive forces in an increasingly fractured world. |
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Rev. Wendell Pew was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Drake University and Drake Divinity School in Des Moines, Iowa. Wendell and Lois started a new church in Austin, Minnesota, and then another in Country Club Hills, Illinois. They came to the pastorate in Chico, California in 1967 and retired after 26 years in 1993. He volunteers as a chaplain's assistant at Mission Hospital. He plays the flute in the Kitchen Klatter Band in San Juan Capistrano and in the Sea Cliffs Jazz Band in San Clemente. He plays in the church band, sings in the choir and plays in the Bell Choir. |
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Rev. Jack Hennings - the tall man with big smile - grew up primarily in Georgia and in South Carolina. He met his wife, Debra at the University of Georgia. After getting his degree in Business Management, Jack worked on a U.S. Senatorial campaign and, as a result, he earned an appointment to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Jack's involvement with his church made him realize he had a "calling." In what can only be called a "leap of faith," he and Debra packed up their possessions and their two sons and headed to Wisconsin to enroll in seminary to become an Episcopalian priest. His first appointment was in Georgia as an assistant pastor, and later to a North Alabama church where he served as church director. Next, he applied for a transfer and was placed at St. Clement's Episcopal Church in San Clemente. He soon felt the need to start a new congregation in Laguna Niguel and Faith Episcopal was born. At the same time, Jack recognized the need for a school in the area and developed St. Anne's School, an accomplishment for which he is most proud. Diagnosed with leukemia in 1993, Jack endured ten years of chemotherapy as the doctors bought him time so that he could be treated with a promising new therapy: a stem cell transplant. The treatment was difficult and challenging, but he survived. During the long ordeal, Jack learned to understand the "rage and the rapture." He says, "I've walked to the edge. I had the peace of knowing that I am taken care of. That makes everyday a day full of sunshine." |
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Dr. Donna Lindsey explores ways to celebrate the sacred that is within us and all around us. She was born in Los Angeles, lived in Hemet, Calif., (where she was a soloist in the Ramona Pageant), St Louis, Mo., Ludwigsburg, Germany, (where she was a nurse in an army hospital) and she eventually settled in San Diego, CA, She has traveled and studied in Europe and India with additional studies at the Alban Institute, the Institute for Peace and Justice, Healing Touch and Ayurveda. She has held many positions within the local church, association and conference of the United Church of Christ. She is Commissioned Minister of Ecumenical Spirituality and is deeply interested in spiritual and philosophical traditions with continuing exploration of new ways to tell our ongoing cosmic unfolding story. Donna is a Registered Nurse, an adult and high school educator, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She holds a masters degree in marriage and family therapy and earned a Doctorate of Ministry in Creation Spirituality. Donna celebrates the arts and sciences while continuing a journey of discovery, learning, practicing and the sharing of spiritual connections and relationships. She is a seeker on the web that connects all with the cosmos. |
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