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The Reverend George F. Woodward III
Sermons	The Reverend George F. Woodward III was born in Pennsylvania in 1955, and grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He received his bachelors degree from Ohio University, a Masters in Theology from Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland, Ohio, and a Masters of Divinity from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He was ordained in 1983, and served for five years as Associate to the Rector at All Saints-by-the Sea in Santa Barbara. He served for two years as Assistant to the Archdeacon of the Aegean, working with Anglican churches and American military chaplaincies in the Republic of Turkey. Following his return to the United States, Father Woodward was for four years Rector of St. Timothy’s, Apple Valley and Dean of the Eastern Deanery of the Diocese of Los Angeles. He became the Seventh Rector of St. Edmund’s Church in 1995. Father Woodward is the Chair of the Program Group on World Mission for the Diocese of Los Angeles www.ladiocese.org,  serves on the national board of directors for Cristosal www.cristosal.org,  an organization within the Episcopal Church dedicated to the support and development of the Anglican Diocese of El Salvador www.elsalvador.anglican.org,  and is on the board of directors for the Global Episcopal Mission Network www.GEMN.org  supporting mission endeavor at the Diocesan level throughout the Episcopal Church. Together with Frederick Borsch, the retired bishop of Los Angeles, he is the author of INTRODUCING THE LESSONS OF THE CHURCH YEAR, which may be found at www.amazon.com  With relative fluency in Spanish, Fr. Woodward enjoys Spanish study, Latin American art, and all travel anywhere. He has an interest in Voice Over work www.GFWtres.com, and lives in Pasadena, California.
The Rev. Hui Liang Ni
	The Reverend ui Liang Ni was born and grew up in Shanghai, China. He received a BA in Philosophy and an MA in the History of Chinese Philosophy from East China Normal University (Shanghai) where he also taught in the Department of History. He later studied at Oak Hill Theological College in London, England, gaining a BA (honors) in Theological and Pastoral Studies. Returning to Shanghai, Father Ni worked as a researcher in the Institute of Religious Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences where he also edited “Contemporary Religious Studies,” an academic periodical. He revised all of the Christian theological articles in Chi Hai, the most prominent contemporary Chinese dictionary. He is currently a doctoral candidate, majoring in history of Christianity at Claremont Graduate University. He is one of the co-founders of the monthly Chinese Christian newspaper “The Mountain” and of the Weixin church. He was active in lay ministry at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church, Hacienda Heights as he trained for ordination in the Episcopal Church. Father Ni was ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons (transitional) June 10th, 2007 and commenced his ministry at St. Edmund’s, San Marino in July of that year. He will be made a priest early in 2008.  In addition to the usual broad spectrum of ministerial duties, he has a special focus on the development of outreach and ministry to the Chinese community. Father Ni is married to his undergraduate classmate Alison Wu. Together they have one daughter, Sarah Ni, age six.
The Rev. Giovan Venable King
	The Reverend Giovan Venable King grew up in North Carolina and Virginia. She has a music degree from Dartmouth College and a law degree from Stanford University. Her Master of Divinity degree is from Harvard and she received her Doctor of Ministry degree in Congregational Development from Virginia Theological Seminary. Giovan served for twenty years as a Congregational minister at the local, regional, national, and international levels before becoming an Episcopal priest. Before coming to St. Edmund’s, she served in the Los Angeles parishes of St. Bede’s and St. James’. Giovan has written two hymns that appear in Hymns for a Pilgrim People and published two books, A City Built on a Hill and Running the Race from Greece to Albania, the latter related, in part, to her experiences as a competitive marathoner raising funds for a variety of Christian missions. She works with Father Woodward in the Los Angeles Program Group for World Mission, representing Haiti. She is also an Associate of the Order of the Holy Cross, a Judge on the Diocesan Ecclesiastical Court, and a member of the Program Group for Ecumenical and Interreligious Concerns. Giovan and her husband, Tom, enjoy traveling, playing tennis, biking, and dancing. They have three children.
Fr. Colville Smythe
	Ordained a priest in 1972, Fr. Colville Smythe spent his entire active ministry working in parishes: Phoenix, Fullerton, La Crescenta, Boston (using sign language with the deaf), Whittier, Santa Ana (in Spanish), Ben Lomond (7 years as rector) and Altadena (12 years as rector). He was Dean of the West San Gabriel Deanery until his retirement in 2007, and is now a Canon of the Diocese. Today Colville teaches ‘Literature of the Bible’ at Citrus College, and supplies on Sundays at churches around the diocese. He chairs the Board of the Ecumenical Council of Pasadena Area Churches. Colville & Sylvia married in 1989; they share a love of music, dancing, travel and family. At his retirement, Sylvia furnished Colville with an idyllic Garden Library (the library just keeps expanding) under the avocado trees---but Colville hasn’t had time to sit and enjoy it yet!
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