A Spirit-Led and Community Driven Decision
The Search Team and the Board of Trustees of the Greater
Philadelphia Center for Spiritual Living joyfully announces the election of Reverend
Dr. Maxine Kaye as our new Spiritual Leader! Dr. Maxine was elected with a 98%
mandate on the first ballot by the members at our community meeting on May
31st.
A Demonstration
Our search process was an 18-month effort which included 12 applicants,
hundreds of hours of research, contemplation and interviewing. Four candidates
were invited for weekend presentations. Additionally we held a community-wide
presentation and interview with Dr. Maxine.
We engaged in affirmative prayer as a community and in our Search
Team meetings, our Board of Trustees meetings, and our Care Groups along with
the powerful support of our Practitioners. Throughout this process the
consciousness of the community was refining and raising itself to a clear
vision of its new Spiritual Leader.
The conscious unity and harmony of our community and Dr. Maxine's
call to be of service to our Center and its members is a clear demonstration of
our philosophy. Divine Mind has expressed itself in a beautiful unfolding of
the future of our community and Dr. Maxine.
Reverend Dr. Maxine Kaye
Raised in Religious Science, and having served 38 years as
Minister with the Centers for Spiritual Living, the Reverend Dr. Maxine Kaye
pastored the Los Altos/Palo Alto Center for over 13 years and her first
congregation in Alamo/Pleasant Hill for 8 years. During the time between the
two congregations, she traveled and presented for spiritual communities in the
U.S. and Canada and earned a Humanities degree at UC Berkeley, focusing on
Ancient Greek civilization.
Devoted to this teaching, Dr. Kaye has served on the Religious
Science International Board of Education (primarily as Practitioner Chair,
Chaplain Minister Sponsor and Curriculum Writer), on the RSI Board of
Directors, chairing the Ethics Committee, Co-Creation Committee and Ministers
Regional Meetings Committee. She worked toward creating an Interim Ministry
Program, which was eventually completed by UCSL, and has served the Monterey
CSL and Yuma CSL in this capacity. She has worked extensively in Chaplaincy,
primarily as a Hospice Chaplain, but also in hospitals, prisons and police
departments.
In April, 2005, she was installed as Assistant Minister of the
Center for Spiritual Living, Palm Desert, California, where she served
successfully with the Pastor in a variety of capacities. In May, 2011, she
chose to "re-wire," in order to complete her book, Alive and Ageless,
and travel with it, speaking and doing workshops.
Additionally Dr. Maxine received the RSI Board of Directors and
Board of Education Outstanding Service Award, and was named RSI Minister of the
Year in 2001 and received her Doctorate.
Gratitude
We are grateful to Reverend Jackie Dougherty for her months of
pastoral care of our community. We are in gratitude for the support of our
Regional Support Minister, Reverend Ian Taylor of the Concordia Center for
Spiritual Living in Rhode Island, for his invaluable hours of advice and
spiritual guidance.
We are grateful to the Centers for Spiritual Living and its Office
of Licensing and Credentialing in particular. Our Center is one of over 400
centers throughout the world expressing the positive ideas of the Science of
Mind philosophy.
We appreciate all of the ministers who applied for our position of
Spiritual Leader We wish them continued success.
We are so very grateful for our Search Team and our Board of
Trustees for their hours of effort in this process that were given with such
grace and ease. We are most grateful to all the members of our community and
friends who have attended our Sunday Celebrations week after week supporting
our Center with their presence and consistent financial contributions. We
particularly thank our volunteers for their joyful giving of their time and
talent.
Next Steps
We look forward to our members and friends joining with us and Dr.
Maxine as we begin a new chapter, building on the first 22 years of our Center.
All are invited to come together with us for an even greater experience of Joy,
Peace, Harmony, Abundance and Love at the Greater Philadelphia Center for
Spiritual Living.
With love and great appreciation,
Linda O'Neill
President, Board of Trustees
John Szal
Search Team Lead
