Tony Clark, Pastor
 I first learned to love God’s Creation in the beautiful Appalachian foothills of Southeastern Ohio, where I grew up and went to church camp. My love for God’s creation and a desire to learn how it was put together led me to study microbiology and then veterinary medicine at the Ohio State University, and then to practice veterinary medicine in several Mid-Western states. Following my mother’s death in 2000, a year of personal discernment, and the events of September 11, 2001, I found myself called to ministry and seminary at Eden Theological Seminary http://www.eden.edu/ in St. Louis, Missouri. After completing an intensive year-long chaplain training program at the St. Louis VA Medical Center, my ministry has been with hospice patients in suburban St. Louis, middle school youth in Duluth, Minnesota, and with two merging churches in Minneapolis. In 2010, I was called as the senior minister at Arlington Community Church United Church of Christ, and my partner Darrell and I moved to Kensington.
Shanti Moorjani, Music Director
Shanti Moorjani is the music director at the Arlington Community Church. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree in music education from Crane School of music at Potsdam State University in New York State, working under Arthur Frackenpohl, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Howard Hansen, she went on to receive her Master of Performance in Organ at San Francisco State University in California. She holds a graduate certificate in Kodaly music from Holy Names University and an Orff music credential. She has taught general music in the schools for 15 years, 35 years of private piano instruction, and directed choirs and programs throughout her teaching career.
Michael Mansfield,
Director of Christian Arts Education Ministries
Michael Mansfield has been a high school teacher, religious education coordinator, and youth minister for over 20 years. He has directed and traveled with youth choirs and youth theater companies for years in San Francisco, St. Louis, Berkeley, Honduras, and London. He helped produce curricula for children, youth and adults, including most recently, Seasons of the Spirit. He has taught teachers and youth ministers and religious educators for 18 years nationally and internationally, offering retreats and workshops for both youth and adults.
He has been graduate faculty at Pacific School of Religion, Holy Names University, New College of California, Naropa University Oakland, University of Creation Spirituality, Wisdom University, and Chabot College, where he teaches acting, dance, and directing. He taught dance at UC Berkeley for 2 years and at St. Louis University for 7 years.
In addition to serving as the Director of Christian Arts Education Ministries at ACC, he also teaches dance in the Bay Area grade schools for the last 12 years and works at the University of California at Berkeley in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Department.
Sara Horton, Administrative Assistant
J.T. Hills, Minister-in-Training
Oscar Burdick, Organist
Clyde Larson, Facility Manager
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