Clergy Team

Local clergy of all faiths are welcome to join our Vigils for Healing Clergy Team and officiate at vigils on a voluntary, rotating basis. Clergy Team members receive guidance and training before leading a vigil alone. While waiting for training, they may pair up with an experienced Clergy Team member to co-lead a vigil. Clergy contact the victim’s family and plan the vigil with assistance from our Advisory Board.

The role of volunteer clergy is not to take the place of the family’s own pastor and other faith support, but to represent and express the compassion of the wider spiritual community.

If you are clergy and would like to help lead Vigils for Healing from time to time, contact us.

Clergy Team volunteers: (residing/working in Winston-Salem, NC, unless otherwise noted)

Rev. Sonia Baca-Zuniga — Assoc. Pastor, Marvin United Methodist Church; Dir., Hispanic Ministry

Rev. Mark Brown — Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church

Rev. Linda Browne — Chaplain, Salemtowne Moravian Retirement Community

Rev. Jo Bjorling — Associate Chaplain, High Point Regional Hospital; serves with the Faith Leader Domestic Violence Training Program

Frankie Bynum — Pastor, Liberty in Christ Ministries

Rev. Judith Dancy — Pastor, Winston-Salem Friends Meeting

Rev. Victor Davidson — Pastor, New Birth of Christ Church

Rev. Charlie Davis — Minister, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winston-Salem

Rev. Hunter Dockery — Minister, Redeemer Presbyterian Church

Fleming El Amin, PhD — Member: Masjid Al-Muminun (Believer's House of Prayer), President: Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Winston-Salem Chapter); Social Studies teacher, Glenn High School

Andrew Ettin, PhD — Rabbi, Wake Forest University and Temple Israel (Salisbury, NC)

Brian Hahne — College and Young Adult Pastoral Intern, Redeemer Presbyterian Church

Kymberly Hoffman — Hood Theological Seminary Divinity Graduate Student (Salisbury, NC); Academic Advisor, WSSU School of Health Sciences

Leon Holmes — WFU Divinity Graduate Student; Innocence Coordinator, Darryl Hunt Project

John Huntley — Bishop, Alpha and Omega Church of Faith

Susan Parker — Associate Pastor, Wake Forest Baptist Church

Rev. Lynn Rhoades — Minister, Danbury Community Church; Exec. Dir. W-S Youth Arts Institute

Rev. Laura Spangler — Minister, Lloyd Presbyterian Church

Mark Strauss-Cohn — Rabbi, Temple Emanuel

Rev. Oscar Zuniga — Pastor, Oak Summit United Methodist Church