The Rev. Carren Sheldon was called to serve as St. Luke’s Interim Rector, on September 1, 2020. She has previously served as Interim Rector to three other parishes, most recently All Saints’, Redding.
Carren is a late-vocation priest, after a long career in radio broadcasting. She has worked as a restaurant server, fruit packer, hospital chaplain, market research assistant, lobbyist’s assistant, offset printer, children and youth minister, Godly Play Trainer, and parent to three grown children with three grandchildren and three grand dogs to love.
A lifelong Episcopalian and a native Californian, Carren has learned most everything else the hard way. She studied at Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 2012, receiving a Master’s of Divinity (emphasis on Christian Education and Pastoral Care). She favors walking meetings, and thoughtful conversations, likes being outdoors, writing, and tinkering with broken things that are way-too-good-to-throw-away (also how she might describe herself). She hasn’t yet learned to like socks or slithery creatures.
She is eager to know and to serve the good people and ministries of St. Luke’s, Woodland and its surrounding community.