Working alongside Kindred Garden's founder, Sage Kosa, I support local gardens and gardeners through regenerative practices.

Spiritual direction is an ancient practice of listening together for the movement of the Spirit in one’s personal life, relationships, the social systems in which we are entangled, and the specific watersheds we inhabit.

Co-Pastor of a trauma-informed, decolonizing, ecological justice-oriented, intergenerational faith community • Collaborate with co-pastor, local faith leaders, care providers, and volunteers to design and lead vigils in response to crises, facilitate ceremonies to promote spiritual health and connection to nature, create communities of belonging and mutual aid, and design and facilitate courses for spiritual formation

Served as Lead Pastor of Cedar Park Church, a vibrant, intergenerational, Anabaptist faith community located in Metro Vancouver. Cedar Park is a community seeking peace in all our relations–with God, ourselves, others, and creation. • Provide visionary and facilitative leadership for the overall church community. • Manage staff and volunteer teams to run the church's robust internal and external ministries which range from refugee sponsorship/settlement, housing advocacy… Show more Served as Lead Pastor of Cedar Park Church, a vibrant, intergenerational, Anabaptist faith community located in Metro Vancouver. Cedar Park is a community seeking peace in all our relations–with God, ourselves, others, and creation. • Provide visionary and facilitative leadership for the overall church community. • Manage staff and volunteer teams to run the church's robust internal and external ministries which range from refugee sponsorship/settlement, housing advocacy, children's summer arts camps, and holistic humanitarian global partnerships. • Primary preaching pastor delivering messages that are ecumenically minded, biblically astute, widely researched, sensitively contextualized, and creatively presented incorporating a variety of verbal communication forms such as spoken word, theater, and storytelling.• Deliver pastoral care through teams offering intentional and informed visitation, mental health peer support groups, marriage mentoring, coordinated meal support, and practical aid. • Provide personalized care through pastoral counseling, spiritual direction, grief work, funerals, weddings, and referrals. • Promote recovery and holistic wellness utilizing an integrated social, psychological, spiritual, and biological approach to healing.• Incorporate basic peace skills in circle process, collaborative problem solving, and compassionate listening in all areas of ministry. • Lead worship team to design and implement thoughtful, creative, challenging, and hopeful weekly worship services.www.cedarparkchurch.org Show less

Served as Pastor of the 3rd Service: an arts and justice oriented evening service within Tenth Church – a diverse faith community in the inner city of Vancouver. • As primary liturgist I worked with teams of staff and volunteers to plan expressive weekly services centered around an open table• Occasional preaching, teaching, and retreat planning• Pastoral care, spiritual direction, visitation, weddings• Created and implemented Arts Worship: monthly services… Show more Served as Pastor of the 3rd Service: an arts and justice oriented evening service within Tenth Church – a diverse faith community in the inner city of Vancouver. • As primary liturgist I worked with teams of staff and volunteers to plan expressive weekly services centered around an open table• Occasional preaching, teaching, and retreat planning• Pastoral care, spiritual direction, visitation, weddings• Created and implemented Arts Worship: monthly services creating space for individual and communal artistic expression• Established the Artisan Café: quarterly arts event following the evening service featuring social justice related visual art and music• Served as Young Adult Pastor providing oversight of leadership team, teaching, mentoring, equipping, and small group support• Communication and design: print, web, and social mediawww.tenth.ca Show less

As a graphic designer, I collaborated with a creative team to create print and web media for a wide variety of nonprofit organizations.

As Art Director, I designed and coordinated both print and web marketingcampaigns, long-term strategic brand management, and comprehensivecommunications programs.