The Rev. (Dr.) Kenny King

(Kenneth Vernon King, Jr.)

915-***-****(Cell)

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Apt # 1059

Glendale, AZ 85308 acxguh@r.postjobfree.com

Strong background in nonviolence, community building, and social justice ministry: 1968-present.

Currently working with an immigration reform ministry, August 26, 2016 to present.

Currently licensed in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, PA, May 1, 2016-August 16, 2016; Supply Priest for St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Scottdale, PA. December 2015- present. Serving as supply and assistant to the Priest-In-Charge St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Johnstown, PA

Serving as Senior Pastor of a non-denominational church in Johnstown, PA. Sept. 2015 to August 16, 2016. Providing services, pastoral care, preaching and liturgy.

Attendance and service United States –Diocese of Maine, 2013-2015, License to Officiate, Diocese of Mississippi, Supply Clergy, Nov. 2008-Feb. 2010

St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Jackson, MS. Communicant and visiting clergy October 2008 to January 2009.

Clergy & Chaplain. Pax Hospice, Madison, MS Sept. 2008-May, 2009.

Innovative Pharmacy Services, McComb, MS, Pharmacy Consultant and Compounding Pharmacist December 2008 to December 2009.

Frist-Responder Chaplain for Mid-Coast Hospital in Brunswick, ME. 2014-2015.

Diocese of Eastern Oregon

Rector of The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Pendleton, Oregon. December 2010-June 20, 2011

Diocese of Panama

Provincial, Priest-In-Charge, Province of Bocas del Toro, ROP, Dec. 2005 - May 2008 (Sole priest serving this province)

Parishes: St. George, Almirante

St. Mary the Virgin, Isla Colon Transfiguration, El Palmo (Changinola) St. Michael, Guabito

Rector: St. George, Almirante and St. Mary the Virgin, Isla Colon Dec. 2005- Jan. 2006

Participated actively in diocesan life: workshops, liturgies, conferences, retreats, ordinations, festivals.

Oversaw and supervised the reconstruction of an historical parish, St. George,

Almirante.

Chaplain and administrator for 2 schools within province, opening one of them as administrator..

Identification of two candidates for Holy Orders, both of whom are now Ordained Clergy for IARCA (The Episcopal Church in the Republic of Panama.

VIA Training [Lay program for parish operations]

Panama was a context in which God called upon me to use the gifts and passions of my whole life in service of God's people:

Radical inclusion and pastoral care: children, youth, and adults, aboriginal and modern, the privileged and the marginalized, at the Table and in the world

Liturgy: Bilingual services, healing prayer as lay ministry, arts and multi-media, inclusive language, full Holy Week Services in all four parishes rather than just one or two, and creation of parish liturgy committees to encourage liturgies to become truly "the work of the people"

Inter-religious and interfaith dialogue and worship with Roman Catholics and with some of Panama's First People

Health Ministry: medical mission clinics; health care with Panama’s poorest; mental health issues in parish life, hypertension, diabetes, nutritional education.

Social justice and nonviolence ministries: Prison ministry, conflict resolution, From Violence To Wholeness (educational program addressing racism, classism, environmental issues, and access to education, food, and health care)

Fundraising: Capital Campaign for restoration of St. George’s, Almirante; repainting and repairs to all four parishes; donations to maintain the Marine School and Community Center and the Children’s Orphanage in Panama City, Panama

Spokesperson for the United Nations SIDA(AIDS) Program, offering prayers in Panama City, Milflores Locks, Changinola Regional SIDA(AIDS) Conferences, ministry to PWA.

Deacon, St. Luke’s Cathedral, Panama City, Republic of Panama Sept. 2005- Dec. 2005

United States - Diocese of California

St James Episcopal Church, Oakland CA, Deacon, June, 2005- Sept. 2005. This inner-city parish was then 60% Liberian, 20% Spanish-speaking, mostly from the Caribbean, and some Anglo members

Meals and food for homeless people

Ministry and welcome to homeless and displaced people

Multi-cultural ministry and music

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, December 2004-June 2005 (assisted Fr. Mark Ruyak, then Associate Minister for Youth and Young Adults, Associate Rector Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA.)

Habitat For Humanity Programs 2004-5

Youth and young adults

Worship and The Arts

St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco, 2001-2004 – Seminarian and Lilly Foundation Intern

Supervising Priest, Rev. Nedi (Bavi) Rivera+.

Participated in all aspects of the ministry of this busy congregation, which had only one full-time clergy person

Planned and led youth mission trip to "3rd World in the US," with Project Noah, Indianola MS

Senior Emcee for liturgies. Created emcee role at St. Aidan's, recruited and trained others, prepared manual for emcee use

Multi-cultural experiences included outreach with Latino/Hispanic and African- American communities as well as San Francisco's large diverse community

Taught From Violence To Wholeness: A Franciscan Course on Active Non- Violence; served with Bay Area Organizing Committee, a collaboration of labor unions and faith communities

Participated in pastoral care as Lay Eucharistic Minister and as intern.

Established Godly Play for Youth Ministry.

Trinity Episcopal Church, San Francisco, 1999-2001

San Francisco, CA 94109, The Rev. Robert Warren Cromey (now retired)

Active parishioner, preacher, lay reader, lay healer, acolyte and member of altar guild

Temporary bookeeper and treasurer for Trinity, while searching for a replacement for that position.

An immersion experience in the Episcopal church for this relatively new Episcopalian

Other Ministry

As a working pharmacist, I was one of the first people in Mississippi to become aware of the impact of the AIDS epidemic and one of the very first people in Mississippi to respond to this new population of "the least among us." This profound opportunity, combined with personal experience of being ministered to in the context of my first wife's fatal illness (cerebral hemorrhage), led to my awareness of a deeper call from God, to my decision to sell my pharmacy business and enter seminary, and to my recognition of my call to priesthood.

Hospice team consultant at End-of-Life Care across Mississippi 1986-1998

Provided medical assistance and supplies for mission trips to Guatemala, Kenya, India. Through Word of Life Church, Jackson MS

Consultant, five hospices, four “At Home” and one “In-Patient” Average supervising population of 230 patients daily.

Administrator, pharmaceutical prescribing protocols and co-author/inventor of alternative dosage forms transdermal systems

Public speaker, Pain Management and End-Of-Life Care for Perdue Fredrick 1997-98, Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, Professional Compounding Centers of America 1986-1999, International Association of Compounding Pharmacists, 1984-1998, various public symposiums and seminars.

THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION

Pacific School of Religion 2004 Certificate in Advanced Pastoral Care

Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA

MDiv, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 2003

Panama Project, Summer of 2002, Changinola and Guabito, Province of Bocas del Toro, Republic of Panama.

National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice (NICWJ), including Seminary Summer, Chaplain for AFL-CIO Hotel Employees and Resturant Employees (HERE) Local Chapter #2 in Chicago and San Francisco, with labor unions.

Facilitator and trainer, From Violence to Wholeness non-violence training, including weekend with Episcopal Peace Fellowship

CPE Year, Chaplaincy Resident, University of California, San Francisco, Moffitt- Long Hospital, 2003 – 2004 (Meets requirements for hospital chaplain work, 4 CPE units)

Member of the Medical Ethics Committee, UCSF Medical Center, 2003-4

Taught From Violence To Wholeness, nonviolence program, Belfast, Northern Ireland 2000.

Board member, Grace House, Jackson MS, established 1985 for PWA.

Other Education and Professional Experience

Registered Pharmacist, 1973 - present

Presentation, "The Spirituality of Compounding," Professional Compounding Centers of America (PCCA), Houston TX, 2003

Graduate, University of MS School of Pharmacy, BS, 1973

Research, University of MS Medical Marijuana Project as Division of the National Institutes of Mental Health, 1969-1973

Recipient of Most Innovative Pharmacist Award, Mississippi State Pharmaceutical Association sponsored by DuPont Pharmaceuticals. 1997.

FAITH HISTORY

My early Christian education was in the context of the Baptist Church in the deep South (Mississippi). Here I learned to rely on God's grace in all things. I was blessed to become a pharmacist, which was a way to bring Christ's healing to the people I served, yet I found that Christ's call to serve those most in need--the least among us--was not always shared by others who named Christ as Lord. It was in the Episcopal Church that I found my true spiritual community, which led to my decision to attend seminary and seek ordination. God has blessed me with gifts of healing, conflict resolution, pastoral care, and clinical ‘hands on’ “End-Of-Life Care”. Since my ordination to the Sacred Order of Priests in November, 2005 I have been blessed to use my gifts in Central

America and across the United States. I retired briefly in 2013, as I continued to use my ministry gifts as a volunteer chaplain, in Texas and Maine before moving to Pennsylvania in June 2015 where I still continue to serve several parishes while looking for long term employment in TEC USA. My work in immigration reform is very temporary, as I seek to be able to return to my ‘home’ state Mississippi.

My last background check was in November 2015 through the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. I have been licensed to officiate in California, Republic of Panama, Mississippi, Eastern Oregon, Maine, and Pennsylvania.

Though I am sixty-five (65) years old; I believe I still have much to offer any parish. My diversity in living in different cultures, learning a new language, traveling across the world, all help keep me staying ‘young’. I immerse myself in a 4,000 volume library, work with Youth-At-Risk, develop and implement children and youth programs, while staying active. I play golf as much as possible (walking), walk, keep up with pharmacy and theological debates, and preach informative, meaningful, and relevant sermons. I thoroughly enjoy my work as a Priest and long for the ability to return ‘home’. I have seven (7) years left before mandatory retirement at age seventy-two (72), and wish to use them effectively and wisely.

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