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Clergy
Senior
Minister: The Reverend Patricia Farris
Minister
of Family Life & Teaching: The Reverend Brad Beeman
 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.
*In
September, Rev. Farris is recording 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 now one of three co-editors of the on-line Circuit Rider Book
Reviews. You may find them here: Circuit
Rider Reviews
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Rev. Farris
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Brad P. Beeman joined the staff of First United Methodist Church
in 2004. He brings fourteen years of pastoral experience having served
in urban, suburban and rural settings. He is a graduate of the Claremont
School of Theology and continues to teach and train in a variety of
settings. Previous to his call to ministry, Brad served as National
Director of Community Support for Seattle-based "Developmental
Research and Programs," a company that led the nation in research
around what places children and youth at risk as well as what families,
schools, and communities can do to reduce risk. He worked on two White
House Task Forces, one in "Parenting as Prevention," the other
in "Drug Abuse and Drug Violence." Brad continues his work
in these areas and in other areas of ministry now in Santa Monica and
as a part of the FUMC staff. Brad is married to Dorothy. They have four
children.
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