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When you
contact Celtic Hound, your will be talking with Christian Boyd.
Christian is the primary spiritual life coach and consultant, and
founder of the Celtic Hound Network. Christian's
primary areas of
expertise are in organizational development, structure evaluation, and
strategic planning processes. He also does regular sessions of spiritual
life coaching
for individuals and for organizations (religious as well as secular).
Christian is an ordained Presbyterian Minister of Word & Sacrament,
experienced pastor, spiritual director, and a Benedictine oblate,
ministering as a servant leader in Christ’s Church for over 10
years. Christian is also a member of Organizational
Development Network,
United
States Distance Learning Association,
Spiritual Directors International, Society for
Church Consulting, and the American Society of Missiology.
He has worked as a designated pastor with congregations in
transformation, conflict or in a healing process, as well as a new
church development pastor and as a judicatory officer.
Christian grew up in southern Missouri and is a graduate of Truman State
University in Kirksville, MO. He earned a Master of Divinity from
Louisville Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry from Luther
Seminary (St Paul, MN), specializing in Congregational Mission and
Leadership with an emphasis in organizational development.
Dean of our Educational Ministries
Michael McCormack is an ordained Minister of Word &
Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Michael received a B.A.
at Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee where he got his first
tastes of ministry: as a youth advisor in Rogersville and then as a camp
counselor at the John Knox Center outside Knoxville. He attended
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary where he received a Master
of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees. “As I consider my journey
of faith so far, there were many times I thought of was doing something.
‘I’m all about this. I’m doing that!’ Now with the hindsight that
reflection allows, I can see what God was doing, the lessons I was
really learning. I am humbled and filled with gratitude.” Michael
has served as a youth pastor in Bowling Green, Kentucky and currently
pastors First Church in Kirksville, Missouri. He is a Doctor of
Ministry candidate at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City where
his thesis will encircle the topics of Eucharist and feeding the
hungry. He is married to Elizabeth West McCormack, a Licensed Marriage
and Family Therapist, and has two wonderful boys, Noah and Liam.
Michael has been in Spiritual Direction for over three years.
Current Celtic Hound Network
partners include:
Spiritual Direction (Individuals and
Groups) and Judicatory Relations:
Rev. Paul Reiter, DMin (Executive
Presbyter, Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy, PC(USA))
Organizational Development:
Rev. Christian D Boyd, DMin
Rev. Junie (Reeves) Ewing, MDiv,
EdD (Human Resource Development)
Leadership, Management, Organizational
Psychology:
Rev. Stephanie Lutz Allen, DMin, MS
I/O Psych (Cultivate Mission)
Evangelism and Marketing:
Rev. Chris Walker, MDiv, MTh (Evangelism Coach)
Church
Building Program, Design and
Construction:
Mr.
Marty Malone (President of
Malone
Church Solutions)
Finance, Accounting, and Holistic
Stewardship:
Ms. Lisa Anglin, MBA (BudgeTude)
The Celtic Hound Iona School of
Spiritual Direction:
Rev. Michael McCormack, MDiv, MTh
(Dean)
Rev. Christian Boyd, DMin (Proctor)
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