Minister in Residence 2018
Gary Patterson has served in ordained ministry in the United Church for 41 years, from small churches, both rural and urban; to Conference Office (“have workshop will travel”); to First United in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver (the country’s poorest neighbourhood); to the big “cathedral-like” St. Andrew’s-Wesley United in the downtown area. He and his spouse, Tim Stevenson, (also ordained, presently serving as the Deputy Mayor of Vancouver) have been together for 36 years; they have always been part of the struggle for the full inclusion of LGBTQ people. Gary is passionate about poetry, progressive theology, the changing church and grandchildren.