I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and after moving away for college and marriage,  landed back in the city with our family in 2011. While San Francisco can be a transient city — we have said goodbye to many friends! — I have over and over again felt a deep conviction to stay; that this was the place that God has called us; and that City Church is the community where we are meant to be living that out. 

I grew up in a nondenominational evangelical church in Pleasanton, and then moved into the Episcopal Church while at Wheaton College; until we moved to San Francisco, I mostly worshiped in the Anglican tradition, though with friends and colleagues across the church spectrum. As a result  I have been privileged to grow up with some of the best of what the evangelical world has had to offer — deep love for Scripture and the tools to study it well; a Jesus-centered faith whose emphasis on the gracious work that God has done in him for us; practice in prayer and community — while also having my vision for the Christian life and the church expanded by participation in liturgical and broadly ecumenical spaces. Along the way,  I’ve gratefully retained my own sense of personal relationship with God while being drawn into an ever-more inclusive vision of what that love means for every corner of the created world. 

City Church has been an intellectual, spiritual, and relational home for me for eleven years. It is the church where I am raising my children, because I am convinced that Jesus is calling us to follow him in ways that our city, our world, and the wider American church need. My husband, Jon, and I live with our two children, Annabel and Graham, in Pacific Heights, where I currently write and host a contemplative podcast called /We Wonder/ while finishing up my seminary degree at Western Theological Seminary. 

Over the past eleven years, I have also had the great gift of participating broadly in the life of City Church: I worked on staff for three years (from 2015-18); participated in and have led Newbigin Fellowship (now Faith and Justice Network) cohorts; have volunteered with our youth group; and was privileged to lead the search committees/hiring process for our youth pastor, Joshua Jalandoon, and most recently our incoming Senior Pastor, Emily McGinley. I am honored to be considered for the elder board, and look forward to continuing in service and worship with all of you at City Church.