Profile:
Senior Co-Ministers
- Experienced partners in creating spiritual community
- Complimentary pair with great love and compassion for diverse people
- Dynamic and inspiring pulpit presenters
- Insightful classroom facilitators and workshop leaders
- Active practitioners of spiritual mind treatment
- Conscientious stewards with demonstrated prosperity consciousness
- Skillful church administrators and volunteer coordinators
- Innovative and creative in expressing the teachings of Religious Science
- Visionaries who consciously court the Presence of God
Experience:
United Religious Science Church (Carson City, Nevada)
Founding Co-Ministers 1984 to present
- Reorganized Unity congregation into UCRS affiliated member church
- Increased Sunday attendance to fifty per week
- Established SOM teaching center with full range of accredited class work
- Created exciting youth program from pre-school through teens
- Devised effective and flexible volunteer program
- Generated annual budget of $60,000
- Supervised conversion to computer system for church records
Lake Tahoe Science of Mind (Zephyr Cove, Nevada)
Founding Co-Ministers 1976 to 1988
- Pioneered metaphysics in well-known resort community
- Promoted Religious Science through wedding services for tourists
- Contributed to community through Winner's Circle Breakfast Club
Prior to 1976 Gil was professional musician (first trumpet) throughout Nevada and Gail worked with the World Ministry of Prayer at UCRS Home Office in Los Angeles, California. They became active in Religious Science in 1955 (Gail - La Crescenta, California) and 1958 (Gil - Las Vegas, Nevada ), met at the Ernest Holmes College, Los Angeles in September of 1974 and were married at Lake Tahoe in 1975.
Elected Positions:
- United Clergy of Religious Science Cabinet/Secretary - Gil - 1995 to 1998
- Standing Advisory Committee on Practitioner Policy - Gil - 1997 to 2000
- No. Cal. United Clergy of Religious Science/Secretary - Gail - 1978 to 1979
- International Board of Trustees/UCRS - Gail - 1996 to 1999
Credentials:
- Honorary Doctorate of Divinity - both 2002
- Ordination at Ministers of Religious Science - both 1980
- Licentiate Ministers of Religious Science - both 1976
- Religious Science Fellow Degrees - both 1976
- Practitioners of Religious Science - Gil 1972, Gail 1974
- Associates of Religious Science - Gil 1970, Gail 1968
- Bachelor of Religious Science - Gil 1960
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