Meet Our Youth Minister
Ryan Johnson was born In Newport Beach, California. She has experience from her youth in the Methodist, Presbyterian and Catholic Churches and attended an Episcopal school from kindergarten to eighth grade. An overachieving student, Ryan attended prep-school just outside of Boston. She decided it was not quite cold enough there so went farther North to the University of Vermont! There she warmed her mind and soul majoring in Comparative Religion, with a focus on Christianity, and minoring in Women's Studies and Art.
Ryan worked as a youth minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Santa Rosa and for many years strove to go beyond her studies of the world's religions into the experience of them. She meditated with Zen Buddhists, did yogic practice and ritual with Shivite Hindus, studied with Kabalists and and prayed with Christians. She was ordained as a Nondenominational Christian Minister in a very 'new age' church and has been a practicing spiritual counselor for seven years. Ryan is thrilled to be entering back into youth ministry and to be working with four Christian denominations! Having had a calling to the ministry since she was ten, Ryan feels she is exactly where she has been called to be.
Ryan worked as a youth minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Santa Rosa and for many years strove to go beyond her studies of the world's religions into the experience of them. She meditated with Zen Buddhists, did yogic practice and ritual with Shivite Hindus, studied with Kabalists and and prayed with Christians. She was ordained as a Nondenominational Christian Minister in a very 'new age' church and has been a practicing spiritual counselor for seven years. Ryan is thrilled to be entering back into youth ministry and to be working with four Christian denominations! Having had a calling to the ministry since she was ten, Ryan feels she is exactly where she has been called to be.