Video: Hope and Transformation in All the Earth

 

This sermon was delivered by Rev. Wilma Jakobsen Senior Associate for Children, Youth and Families, All Saints Church, Pasadena on Sunday, April 22, 2012.  Wilma Jakobsen was born and educated in Cape Town, South Africa, and is a former high school physical science and math teacher. In the mid 1980s she sojourned in Pasadena for 3 years where she obtained a Master of Divinity from Fuller Seminary, and discovered the energy and joy of All Saints Church, where she led the junior high group, Taize prayers and worked with Clarke Oler in the newcomer ministry.

Wilma was the first woman deacon and priest ordained by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the Anglican Church in Southern Africa. She worked for 15 years in the Diocese of Cape Town, in parishes ranging from black townships to the cathedral to a rural parish with fishing communities and farm communities. She was involved as an anti apartheid activist in church and faith based organizations, and has some interesting stories to tell from her stint as chaplain to Archbishop Desmond Tutu in his last 2 years of office. After that exciting job she lived in New York for a year, where she obtained a Master of Sacred Theology from Union Theological Seminary. Essays by her on feminist theology and liturgy, and on her journey of vocation, appear in various anthologies. She was the university chaplain at UCT, University of Cape Town for 6 years before joining the staff of All Saints Church Pasadena in 2003 as Senior Associate for Liturgy and Peace & Justice. In 2007 she switched portfolios and is now the Senior Associate for Children, Youth & Families, Students & Young Adults.

All Saints Church, 132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena, (626) 796-1172 or visit www.allsaints-pas.org.