The Rev. Angela Anderson
Angela was born in London, England, and was raised both in England and the United States (Massachusetts).
She also lived in Montreal, Canada, where she met her future husband, Carl, in 1967.
In 1969, she moved to California when Carl’s assignment ended in Canada.
She was raised an only child in a loving Roman Catholic family and grew up loving Jesus and the traditions of her faith. However,
after loosing her father to cancer when she was 19, she gradually drifted away from her Catholic roots. In 1974, she married Carl and he remained her loving husband until his death 34 years later. When they married she also became a stepmom/friend to Carl’s three children and over the years she became a grandma to her stepchildren’s children and also their children.
In 1979, Angela returned to college to complete the education that was interrupted by her move to Canada.
She enrolled in California State University, Fullerton, and completed a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in English Language and Literature while working full-time as a technical writer/editor at Hughes Aircraft Company. Upon completion of her master’s degree she left her day job to undertake a PhD program on the 17th century Metaphysical Poets at the University of California, Riverside; after completing her course work she left the program without completing her dissertation. At that time she began teaching English Composition classes at several colleges and universities in the Orange County area.
Angela and Carl moved to Las Vegas in 1991 after Carl’s retirement from his work as a project manager in the aerospace industry. Angela accepted a position as a technical writer/editor in the scientific community of EG&G Energy Measurements (and its successor contractors) where she remained until her retirement in 2014. During this time the opportunity arose for Angela to take a special assignment working on a military program in Germany, and she and Carl spent a wonderful five years traveling extensively in Europe and even going to Egypt.
Soon after their return to Las Vegas in late 2001, Carl was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and Carl died in April 2007.
It was shortly after loosing Carl and facing some health issues of her own that Angela felt the call to return to church in an intentional way, and
after finding Grace in the Desert in late 2009 she immediately became immersed in the community.
During this period, she has served a term as a vestry member, directed Outreach activities with a particular interest in the work of Family Promise, and
was involved with the ECW ministry.
She also enrolled in the EfM (Education for Ministry) program from which she graduated in 2014.
It was at this time that Angela began to feel that she was called to ordained ministry.
Angela was ordained to the Sacred Order of the Priesthood December 16, 2017.
She is a member of Spiritual Directors International and has a special interest in pastoral ministry and hospital/hospice chaplaincy.