Let me tell you a bit about myself: I came to being a Presbyterian by my parents taking me to a Presbyterian church that our neighbors went to, even though they weren’t members. As a young adult who went to Washington D.C. for my first career with the Federal Government, I was baptized and became heavily involved in my local church and a bit at the Presbytery too.  In 1994 I entered seminary at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and since 1998 I’ve done this transitional work with a number of congregations in the west.