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MARY SUSAN GAST
Mary Susan Gast became Conference Minister of the Northern California Nevada Conference on February 1, 1997, after serving for 6 years as Executive Director of the United Church of Christ’s national Coordinating Center for Women in Church and Society. Ordained in 1975, Mary Susan has been a hospital chaplain in Chicago, a campus minister at Iowa State University, the pastor of a rural congregation in Union City, Michigan, and an inner city congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was an Associate Conference Minister with the Indiana-Kentucky Conference. She has also been employed as a community organizer, printer, health insurance claims processor, and assembly line worker.
She chaired the Board of Directors of the UCC Stewardship Council, directed an educational ministry on worldwide nuclear disarmament in the 1980’s, and represented the national staff of the denomination as a peace monitor at the 1994 elections in South Africa and as a participant at the UN Forum on Women in Beijing in 1995. A native of Baroda, Michigan, she graduated from Michigan State University in 1970 and received her Doctor of Ministry degree from the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1975. CTS honored her with a Doctor of Divinity in 1994. Her liturgical materials and commentaries on church life and contemporary culture have been widely published.
She has been married to the Rev. Roger Straw since 1971 and they are blessed by the presence of daughter, Susannah, and son-in-law, Matt.
05/05/05
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