The BST Alumni Office is delighted to host our winter Alumni Gathering, Hope in Spiritual Care, on Thursday, February 27, 2025! In this virtual gathering, we will have some time to socialize and catch-up, followed by an alumni panel. Please register below to receive the Zoom link! And we will honor alumni who are celebrating graduation anniversary milestones!
Everyone who registers is automatically entered in our Alumni Swag Bag Giveaway! Registrants must be present at the time of the drawing.
With this panel discussion, we want to highlight the diverse types of spiritual care, counseling, and chaplaincy work that our alums are pursuing, and to cultivate different perspectives of what spiritual care and hope means to the populations they serve. Spiritual care, counseling, and chaplaincy vary through different communities. What does spiritual care, counseling, or chaplaincy look like in various populations? How does spiritual care, counseling, and chaplaincy reach those on the margins of our communities? What does hope look like? What are some of the challenges and successes?
Program Info
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025
Time: 4:00 – 7:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: On Zoom
Registration
program
4:00 – 4:20 PM Opening Remarks
4:20 – 4:35 PM Acknowledgement of Alumni Graduation Anniversaries*
4:35 – 5:00 PM Giveaway, games, and breakout rooms
5:15 PM Break
5:30 – 6:45 PM Panel Discussion, moderated by Rev. Dr. Angie Barker Jackson, BST’s VP of Institutional Advancement*
6:45 PM Closing remarks and prayer
7:00 PM Conclusion
*Recorded session
graduation anniversaries
Did you graduate from Berkeley School of Theologly in one of the classes below? You’re celebrating a graduation anniversary in 2025! At the winter Alumni Gathering, we will acknowledge alumni in attendance with anniversary milestones. Register and reconnect with your fellow alumni!
Class of 1960: 65-year anniversary
Class of 1965: 60-year anniversary
Class of 1970: 55-year anniversary
Class of 1975: 50-year anniversary
Class of 1980: 45-year anniversary
Class of 1985: 40-year anniversary
Class of 1990: 35-year anniversary
Class of 1995: 30-year anniversary
Class of 2000: 25-year anniversary
Class of 2005: 20-year anniversary
Class of 2010: 15-year anniversary
Class of 2015: 10-year anniversary
Class of 2020: 5-year anniversary
panel speakers
Chaplain Katy Dickinson (DMin, 2025)
Chaplain Katy is currently finishing her Doctor of Ministry degree at the Berkeley School of Theology. Since 2015, Katy Dickinson has been a jail chaplain for the Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy (CIC) in Santa Clara County while continuing her graduate studies. Katy is the Founder of Mentoring Standard and an award-winning Process Architect. Starting in 2001, she was the Process Architect and manager of successful corporate and government mentoring international programs– while holding a variety of senior executive roles in the Silicon Valley. She was the Process Architect for the first class of the U.S. State Department’s TechWomen mentoring program, and continues as a TechWomen mentor, as well as serving in over a dozen delegations to the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia since 2011.
Rev. Dr. Marjorie B. Lewis (MA, 1991)
Dr. Lewis’s 35-year tenure both in Oakland, California and Denver, Colorado features service in three arenas: religion, academia, and behavioral health. She combines academic and applied orientations informed as an Ordained Minister (D. Min.), a Public Policy Analyst (Ph.D.), and a Colorado State Licensed Mental and Behavioral Health Professional (trainer, evaluator, and direct services provider). Dr. Lewis has utilized these skills in military and prison reentry, psychotherapy, counseling, and psychoeducation. In the mental and behavioral health venues, she has served as a member of the Colorado Board of Parole and is currently on the WellPower Mental Health Community Center’s Board of Directors, serving as chairperson of their Governance Committee. She is the author of two books, Singing Songs in a Strange Land: Anecdotes on Resilience, and First Aid for the Soul: Resilience, Rehabilitation and Recovery.
Rev. Dr. Rick Mixon (MDiv, 1973)
Dr. Rick teaches Pastoral Care as Affiliate Faculty at Berkeley School of Theology. He is an ordained American Baptist minister with over 50 years of experience in pastoral ministry, church leadership, and social justice advocacy. Since October 2024, Rick currently serves as the Interim Pastor of First Baptist Church of Ann Arbor. From 2006-2020, Rick was Pastor at First Baptist Church of Palo Alto, California and since then has held several interim pastorships all over the United States. Rick has also been involved in various regional and national organizations, such as the Alliance of Baptists, the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, the American Baptist Minister’s Council, and the Santa Clara County Council of Christian Churches. In addition, Rick holds his M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University-East Bay in Hayward, California.
Chaplain Kwee T.L. Say (MDiv & MCL, 2019)
Chaplain Kwee is a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, and currently serving as a Command Chaplain aboard the USS ROSS (DDG 71). She joined the U.S. Navy in 2018 as a non-active reservist and started her active duty in the Navy in October 2022. Kwee came to America in 2004 from Burma (Myanmar) and is the very first Burmese Karen, her ethnic group from Burma, to become a Chaplain in the United States Navy. She received dual degrees from Berkeley School of Theology, in Divinity and Community Leadership.
