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.jpg) October
5, 2008 Guest –
Craig Rennebohm
Program: Concern For Broken Things
Craig Rennebohm has worked for
twenty years on the streets of Seattle, WA, supporting homeless individuals
struggling with mental illness on the journey through the community mental
health system to stability in the community. He has worked extensively with
families, served as chaplain on the inpatient mental health units at Harborview
Medical Center and has worked in partnership with local congregations to develop
mental health ministries that include education, spiritual care and support
groups, services of healing and encouragement, shelter, drop-in programs and
supported housing. He has developed a basic "Companionship Training," which
equips laity for ministries of presence and service, and "Relational Outreach,"
a resource and training for medical, mental health, human service and chemical
dependency staff.
Craig graduated from Carleton College, the Chicago Theological Seminary and the
Pacific School of Religion where he earned a Doctor of Ministry degree
specializing in pastoral care. Craig was ordained in Lowell, MA where he served
in a community ministry position which included serving as a juvenile court
chaplain, campus minister and as a staff member of the Lowell Pastoral
Counseling Center. As pastor of Pilgrim Church in Seattle for 11 years he helped
create a lively diverse congregation which embodied the message, "All are
Welcome, Come as You Are." Craig is a United Church of Christ minister whose
greatest delight is his family, Barb, Kelsey, Sam and Max. |
