Meet Our People

Our Ministers

Rev. Sharon Forche-Daniel is the senior staff minister with the center. She became a licensed Practitioner in 1981 and received her ministerial license in 1985.

Rev. Sharon was ordained in 1999 and was the first non-pastoral minister to become ordained through Religious Science International (RSI).  She taught summer Science of Mind (SOM) classes for many years.  She has also taught SOM 200 and SOM 300. She is the ministerial liaison for the Center for spiritual Living Practitioners.

“Our work is simple. It is direct.  Let us keep it that way.”

Ernest Holmes

Rev. Carolyn Cash is a staff minister with the center.  She became a licensed Practitioner in 1984 and received her ministerial license in 1995. Rev. Carolyn was ordained in 2004. She has taught Science of Mind classes as well as several metaphysical classes and workshops that she developed. She has also presented seminars reflecting her interests from her past experience in the health field and works with cases of bereavement and is a grief counselor. Rev. Carolyn is also a Registered Nurse.

“Do not follow where my path may lead. Go instead,
where there is no path to follow and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rev. Mary Jo Sparry has been a Religious Science International minister since 1996 and was ordained in 2004. She has taught SOM I, SOM II, and SOM III; designed and facilitated Religious Science In-Depth classes; been a regular Sunday speaker; written for Creative Thought Magazine; and has given workshops at Asilomar. Currently, she enjoys being Assistant Minister and teaching SOM 300 class.

“Look often to the Vast, Vast Countenance.”

Emma Curtis Hopkins

Rev. Darlene Sykes is one of three assistant ministers with the center.  She has taught accredited Science of Mind classes as well as several metaphysical classes that she has developed and often speaks at the 9:30 Sunday Morning Service. 

Rev. Tim Mauro is a staff minister with the center.  He became a licensed Practitioner in 1998 and received his ministerial license in 2000. He has taught metaphysical Bible classes for the last four summers at the church and frequently speaks at our Wednesday night services.

“Go, let it be done unto you according to your belief.”

Matthew 8:13

Rev. Pam McClure-Roman is a staff minister with the center. She became a licensed Practitioner and received her ministerial license in 2001. She has taught Religious Science In-Depth and SOM101 classes. She is founder of the BOSS (Business Spiritual Support) Group at the center, reflecting her background as President and CEO of her own high tech business.

Rev. Bob Ahrenkeil is a staff minister with the center. He became a licensed Practitioner in 2001 and received his ministerial license in 2003. 

Rev. Bob is the creator and leader of the men’s group “The Sun Circle,” is part of the  Center’s "outreach ministry", a volunteer hospital chaplain and vice president of the Tri-City interfaith ministers association.

Rev. Sue TenEyck is a staff minister with the center. She is responsible for the organization of the bookstore and has been a licensed Science of Mind practitioner for seven years, is involved in senior outreach, and is a senior citizen commissioner of the city of Fremont.

Rev. Celeste Terken became a licensed Practitioner in 2001 and received her ministerial license in 2004.  Rev. Celeste and Rev. Andrea Minister to the Youth at the center.

Celeste brings a wealth of knowledge and experience having been a Religious Scientist since the late 1960s.  Prior to moving to Fremont, she was in involved in the youth programs at several Tampa Bay area churches in Florida. Celeste’s philosophy is, learning should be fun.

Rev. Andrea Scheib is a staff minister with the center and the Minister of Junior Church and the Youth. She became a licensed Practitioner in 2004 and received her ministerial license in 2005. Andrea has a Master's Degree in Education and works with young children in a home based business. She is also a licensed Red Cross CPR and First Aid instructor.

Rev. Andrea and Rev. Celeste have teamed up as the Ministers of Youth at center, working primarily with our preschoolers.  

She is also currently hosting the Movie Night program

"Nothing happens by chance in the universe."

Ernest Holmes

Rev. Pamm FredErickson is a staff minister with the center.   Rev. Pamm began her study of The Science of Mind in 1985, by tapes!  She moved to San Jose in 1987 in order to be able to attend a church. She attended her first class in 1989 and when asked what her purpose was for being in class, she knew without a doubt, to become a minister of this teaching.

She received her ministerial license in 2005.  Rev. Pamm returned to India in October, 2005, and created the Science Of Mind Practice Centre of Gurgaon, India.

Rev. Susan Moeller is a staff minister with the center. She received her Practitioner’s License in 1995 and her ministerial license in 2007.  As a student at both the Religious Science Church of the Desert in Palm Desert, and the Center for Spiritual Living-Fremont, CA, she has had the privilege of training under both Dr. Tom Costa and Dr. Jay Scott Neale and Dr. Carol Neale.

Rev. Susan is also the Redevelopment Director of Redwood City and held that same position in Cathedral City. Her success in revitalizing and transforming communities and using Science of Mind principles on a community level to do so, gives her a unique and powerful perspective to attract and inspire people on an individual level.  She has a gift for inspiring people and communities to “step into their Power” and pursue their dreams.

The vision of her ministry is to co-create sacred space that celebrates self-expression, clear thinking, audacious dreaming and joyful demonstrations of the Living Presence within all.

Her work will include outreach on the Peninsula to establish a new work in Redwood City.

Rev. Christie Hardwick joined the Center for Spiritual Living- Fremont, CA in 2001 after hearing Rev Dar in a SOM 101 class on a Monday night. She went on to become a regular featured artist and attended classes consistently for six years. 

She served on the board for several years working in the area of organization development and membership and became a licensed practitioner and minister in 2007.

Christie will utilize her more than twenty year career in industry where she helped develop leaders and organizations both in the for profit and public benefit corporate environments.  She will use her work within the public school system and her former political organizing work to enrich her ministry. 

Her ministry is a focus ministry which is a relatively new designation for RSI.  She is currently one of five licensed focus ministers. Her focus ministry is Internet/Youth & Leadership. She is currently assisting leaders nationally and internationally to reveal and revise the underlying beliefs from which they are leading to greatly improve their intentional impact on their world. She is launching a website that will be for youth and created with youth to explore and expand their spiritual understanding. It will launch with a logo and animation contest in January 2008.

She will also be a guest minister at the Canter and other churches several times a year and will launch her first ‘spirited luxury’ retreat next fall which will allow people to take a unit of SOM 101 in a one week format in a beautiful travel destination.

Rev. Harriet Topczewski discovered Religious Science in the early 1990’s.  After hearing about the teaching she was very excited and went in pursuit of a church. In the outskirts of Chicago she found the Oak Park Church, where Reverends Harriet and Christopher Smolka became her first teachers.

In 2001 Harriet decided it was time to make some changes.  She wanted to relocate from Chicago and also move into the ministry.  She did her Treatment work at Asilomar that year. Afterward, she attended a service at the Tri-City Church where she heard Dr. Jay announce he would be starting a new ministerial class in two months. She made a decision to relocate to Fremont and continue her studies at Tri-City Church.

Today Harriet is a staff minister and is beginning a prison outreach ministry. She also has over ten years experience in Recreational Therapy with older adults and is finding ways to incorporate spirituality into senior programs. She works for a non-profit senior day health center where older adults get to re-connect with themselves.

Harriet’s mission is simple: To foster individual transformation through the healing Presence and revelation of Spiritual Truth.

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