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SENIOR MINISTER |
| 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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PASTOR EMERITUS |
| 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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NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTER |
| Rev. Adelia Sandoval, a member of the Acjachemen Nation, conducts Saturday Song of the Earth Services. In addition to holding ceremonies, Adelia is her tribe's cultural liaison. Her tasks include everything from participating in city council meetings to helping save sacred lands, to preparing her group of female singers, the "Tushmal Singers", for the opening of the Native American Museum in the Smithsonian at Washington D.C. |
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MUSIC MINISTER |
| Carver Cossey began conducting at age 16 in church and has been conducting professionally for over thirty-five years, working with choruses at colleges, universities and churches throughout California. He has performed and soloed with the Pacific Chorale, Master Chorales of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, Angels Chorale, Pacific Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers and has performed leading and minor roles in professional opera and musical theater. |
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