Eileen Burdick Email & Phone Number

Stanwood, Washington, United States

Tacoma, Wa

Provide sensitive and compassionate spiritual support to terminally-ill individuals and their families with an open and comforting presence to navigate through the journeys of both grief and hope.

Co-Pastor in a congregation of 2,000 members presiding and preaching at 4 services at 2 ministry sites.Collaborating with community and ecumenical partners to create ministries engaging approximately 150 disadvantaged children and their families each week for assistance, education, and life skills as well as operating a seasonal emergency cold weather shelter. Developed an innovative Clinical Pastoral Education / pastoral care program at Trinity specifically for lay leaders in partnership with Swedish Medical Center to provide a comprehensive team-based approach to pastoral care.Mentoring lay leaders to discern their interests and to encourage their leadership in entrepreneurial ministries via a flattened hierarchy within the congregation.Specialized in counseling members with mental health and grief-related issues.

Shoreline, Wa

• Called by the Northwest Washington Synod to revitalize a declining congregation through creative approaches to community outreach.• Created a missional ministry in the neighborhood with multiple secular sites gathering people with varied interests in conversations of faith.

Seattle, Wa

• Served as staff chaplain for the Spiritual Care Department for 3 months.• Served as CPE resident for 9 months with focused emphasis on ICU and psychiatric units.

Established U.S. Office assuming full responsibility for marketing, sales, contract negotiations, import, installation, payment, and maintenance for specialized structural acrylic.Researched a complex market, developed and executed sales and contract strategies, and established strong customer and subcontractor relationships.Collaborated with customers and subcontractors to explore and advance technologies needed for custom products and applications.

Selected for the company’s management training program and fast-tracked to administrative and management opportunities in the electronics department.Promoted to serve as the first American and female manager of the U.S. subsidiary to create a Business Development department identifying and contracting new U.S. products for export to Asian markets

Master Of Divinity (M.Div.)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science