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The Annual Celebration will be hosted by Easter Hill UMC in Richmond, CA 3911 Cutting Blvd, Richmond, CA 94804 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Featured Speaker - Rev. Quentisha Davis Wiles
Event Donation: $20 - Lunch is Provided 9:30 to 9:45 am - Registration and Continential Breakfast 10:00 am - Program Begins Please register by Sunday, September 13, 2024 - Registration Form
Rev. Quentisha Davis Wiles, MSW, ASW, MDIV Senior Pastor
Reverend Quentisha Davis Wiles is a liberation theologian who believes the Word of God is a living Word and brings freedom and liberty when proclaimed, ingested, and applied to one’s life. She examines sacred text from a womanist context, which provides an additional lens and perspective to the living gospel. Pastor Q as she is affectionately called has over 25 years in ministry and nine years in parish ministry. She has worked in various levels of ministry including youth director at Concord United Methodist Church, congregational care minister at Jones United Methodist Church and previously served as senior Pastor at Pittsburg United Methodist Church (PUMC).
Pastor Quentisha has served God throughout her professional career in parish and the mission field. Outside traditional ministry, she served as a community organizer, foster care social worker, drug treatment provider, assistant coordinator of the first teen domestic violence program in California at A Safe Place battered women’s shelter, community-based mental health clinician working with 0-5, children youth and families, health prevention and intervention manager working with prostitutes and IV-drug users, teen mothers program manager in multiple cities, mental health director of three mental health centers in Richmond, Concord, and Antioch, California and as a crisis case manager working with victims of gun violence and family members of those lost to gun violence in the city of Oakland. God continues to use Pastor Quentisha in a variety of contexts, planting seeds of life and coaching God’s people to wellness in and out of the local church.
Pastor Quentisha maintains a consultant, training, and transitional coaching practice with human service providers, organizational leaders, and communities. Her areas of expertise are transformational consciousness and leadership development, interdisciplinary engagement, workplace conflict, and navigation with special attention to cultural humility and restorative practices.
Pastor Quentisha’s two life scriptures are Proverbs 4:7 & 2 Timothy 2:15. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading, writing, painting, poetry, jazz, and nature walks in her spare time.
Pastor Quentisha and her husband Edward Wiles together have eight children and four grandchildren.
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