A Note from the APNC

Eleven months ago, you entrusted this Associate Pastor Nominating Committee (APNC) with the responsibility of hiring an Associate Pastor for Practice and Formation, someone who would help lead and care for our congregation. You have prayed and waited faithfully…and waited some more! We, in turn, have been meeting, praying, discussing, discerning, and waiting as well. We have felt your support throughout this journey, and we thank you for it.

Now it is with great joy that we introduce to you Dr. Charlene Jin Lee, our Associate Pastor for Practice and Formation nominee.

Charlene is an experienced teacher and pastor whose ministerial career path began in 1998 in the field of Education. During the next several years, while obtaining her Master of Education and Ph.D. in Christian Education degrees, Charlene served as a children and family Pastor and a Director of Christian Education. For the past ten years, Dr. Lee has served on the Advanced Pastoral Studies Faculty at the Graduate School of Theology at University of Redlands, California. Her colleagues and the APNC members describe her as faithful, compassionate, strong, and hopeful.