Gayle was brought up in Dalhousie Junction, New Brunswick. She attended Saskatoon Business College and worked as a Secretary in Ottawa before returning to school full-time. Gayle has served Presbytery as Chair, Youth Liaison, Chair of Stewardship, Chair of Pastoral Oversight and Liaison to the Licensed Lay Worship Leaders (aka Lay Preachers). She has also coordinated and taught courses for the licensing of Licensed Lay Worship Leaders. She has served Conference in the capacity of staff support; as Convenor of the Youth Task Force and then Convenor of the Youth Initiatives Project; on the Petitions Committee and as Secretary of Church in Action.She studied English Language and Literature at Carleton University, graduating in 1988. In the fall of 1988, Gayle moved to Kingston, Ontario with her two sons, Rik (Roderick) and Roger Cardiff and began her Master of Divinity degree at Queen’s Theological College where she received the Kirk Prize for New Testament Theology. Ordained by Bay of Quinte Conference in 1994 and settled at Admaston Pastoral Charge, near Renfrew, Ontario. Gayle is an associate of the Atlantic Jubliee Program in Spiritual Deepening and Spiritual Guidance. Her current course of studies is in Appreciative Inquiry for Congregations in Transition. In Moncton, Gayle wrote a regular column for the Faith Page of the Moncton Times. While in Ontario, she was coordinator of and a contributor to the spirituality column of the Renfrew Mercury in Ontario. Gayle`s two sons live in Toronto, Ontario. Her sisters and father live in Moncton. Gayle`s hobbies include reading (mostly novels and murder mysteries), writing poetry, dabbling at drawing and playing computer games. Gayle is passionate about liturgy, and about the discovery and development of the giftedness of congregations. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Nathan is currently in studies through United Theological College in Montreal to become ordained, but has joined us at Spring Park in late 2010 to overlook our Christian Development Team. He believes that by sharing our faith with our children and youth we open ourselves to the fullness of the Spirit, and that only as a whole community, of all ages, do we come closer to God's Shalom. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 Tony was brought up in England, and studied science at the University of Bristol. He became a Methodist Lay Preacher and was accepted as a candidate for the Methodist Ministry. He then studied theology at the University of London. In 1957, he and his wife Jacqueline emigrated to Canada. He was ordained by the Maritime Conference of The United Church in 1958, and served a number of churches on P.E.I., including Spring Park. The family returned to England at the end of 1961. Tony worked in churches in the industrial north-east and the Channel Island of Jersey. From 1968 to 1975, he taught at a College in Devonshire, becoming Head of its Science Department. In 1975, he re-entered The United Church of Canada, serving churches on P.E.I., in Bermuda and in Halifax, N.S. He officially retired in 1999, but continued in active ministry for three years in Cape Breton. From 2002 he served as retired supply in P.E.I’s South Shore Pastoral Charge, at Trinity (Charlottetown) and Spring Park. He has served on numerous Presbytery Committees, as Chair of PEI and Halifax Presbyteries, and as Commissioner to General Council. He has a particular interest in faith development, lay ministry education, and the relationship between science and religion. Tony’s wife is a Registered Psychiatric Nurse. They have five children and a number of grandchildren. Debbie Bridges - Administrative Assistant After living in Vancouver for 18 years Debbie, Doug, and their son Matthew moved back to PEI December to be close to their family. The Bridges started attending Spring Park in 1995, and in 1998 Debbie joined our staff team.
 Susan is our long-time organist who shares her gifts directing our choir and leading the music in our Sunday service.
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