Word and Life‘s Steering Committee
Current members of the Word & Life Steering Committee (April 2019- ) include Michael Dean, Anna Grotenhuis, Anne Heck, Pat McClure, Judith McDermott (Coordinator), Joe Schneider (Secretary/Treasurer) and Martha Siegel.
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Leadership
The following persons have been Coordinators of Word and Life since its inception in 1978:Gini Cashman, Founder, 1978 Louise Rapp, 1978-1991 Renee Malloy, 1994-1998 Dorothy Fitch, 1994-1998 Clare Montana, Ph.D., 1998 Alice MacDonald, M.A., 1982 – 2008, Bob Doering, 2008-2017 The present Steering Committee (2017 – ), chaired by Judith McDermott, continues to manage the programs and book the speakers invited to speak at Word & Life sessions.
Alice MacDonald
Word and Life‘s Coordinator, 1982-2008
| Alice MacDonald served as a coordinator of the Word and Life community between 1986 and 1994. She then took several years off to pursue a graduate degree in Theology from Loyola Marymount University, which she received in 1998. Her most recent term as Coordinator started in 1998 and ended in 2008. “I have come full circle in this ministry,” she declared in the Spring of 2007. With gratitude for her recent decade of good and faithful service, the Advisory Team used the 2007-08 year to discern the type of leadership that the community might welcome starting in the summer of 2008. Alice was a founding member of Santa Barbara’s popular and well-attended Institute for Adult Spirituality, which held two series a year at the Franciscan Renewal Center of Mission Santa Barbara until it was disbanded in 2006. Alice and her husband Bill have been married for over fifty years and have three adult children. They have been members of St. Raphael’s Parish for most of that time; Alice has served St. Raphael’s Parish as a teacher in the Religious Education Program and as a lector and Eucharistic Minister. |