Clare Ann is Program Director for the Circles of Support and Accountability project of the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies of Fresno Pacific University (see her official university page). She previously served as northern California conference minister for Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference and as pastor of Zion Congregational Church (UCC) in Fresno, CA. At the end of 2001 she completed her term as Country Representative and Program Director of Mennonite Central Committee Indonesia, living in the city of Yogyakarta on the island of Java. She has taught at Fresno Pacific University and Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary. Clare Ann was founding co-pastor of Peace Community Church--Mennonite in Clovis, CA.
Her D.Min. project at San Francisco Theological Seminary is titled "A Design for Christian Formation in Mennonite Congregations." For a diagram showing the process of Christian Formation as described in the dissertation click here.
Clare Ann served as a member of the General Board and the Executive Committee of the General Conference Mennonite Church 1989-1999. She also served on the boards of West Coast Mennonite Central Committee and Kings View Corporation.
Her husband of over 40 years Duane is a member of the faculty of Fresno Pacific University, where he is Director of Graduate Academic Programs of the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies and also teaches in the Leadership and Organizational Studies program. He was on leave to Pusat Studi dan Pengembangan Perdamaian (Center for the Study and Promotion of Peace) of Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana in Yogyakarta, Indonesia under Mennonite Central Committee 1999-2001. Their son Andrew, his wife and their three children live in Fresno.
Education
D.Min. 1997 San Francisco Theological Seminary (Graduation pictures #1, #2, and #3)
Associate 1989 Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation
M.Div. 1986 Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary
B.A. 1970 Bethel College (KS)
Publications
"Working with Sex Offenders" in Dussich and Schellenberg, eds. (2010) The Promise of Restorative Justice: New Approaches for Criminal Justice and Beyond. Lynne Rienner Publishers.
"Church boards: Boring or fulfilling; Transforming committees into communities of spiritual leaders" with Jill Schellenberg in The Christian Leader November 2006.