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Senior Minister: The Reverend Patricia Farris
Children & Family Life: The Reverend Camille Mattick
Youth & Intergenerational Ministries: The Reverend Robert English
Rev. Patricia Farris, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, has nearly thirty years experience in local church and campus ministry. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, she has served local churches in Gardena and Los Angeles, in addition to serving as superintendent of the San Diego District prior to being appointed at FUMC in Santa Monica. Her interests are in preaching, teaching, worship and church renewal. Her writing has appeared in The Christian Century, Circuit Rider, Quarterly Review and the Upper Room Devotions, and she is known as a preacher and workshop leader throughout the denomination. Patricia is also a member of the Advisory Board of the EveryChild Foundation. She and her husband, David Bremer, Associate Professor at the Otis College of Art and Design, enjoy reading, music, movies and travel. At the heart of her ministry is a love of God's people and of God's world.
Her writing has appeared in The Christian Century, Circuit Rider, Quarterly Review, the Upper Room Devotions and Feasting on the Word. She is known as a preacher and workshop leader throughout the denomination. Patricia is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Every Child Foundation. She and her husband, David Bremer, Associate Professor at the Otis College of Art and Design, enjoy reading, music, movies and travel. At the heart of her ministry is a love of God's people and of God's world.
* Rev. Farris recorded a sermon for "30 Good Minutes" a weekly ecumenical and interfaith television program on WTTW 11 (PBS) in Chicago. Visit their website at: www.csec.org
* Read Rev. Farris' Horizons column for FUMC's church newsletter: Horizons
* Participate in Rev. Farris' monthly Book Study: Loving God With Our Minds
* Rev. Farris presented a paper at the meeting of the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies in England in August, 2007.
* Rev. Farris is one of the co-editors of the on-line Circuit Rider Book Reviews. You may find them here: Circuit Rider Reviews
