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Abiding Presence

14700 San Pedro Ave.

San Antonio, TX 78232

210-494-8884

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Pastor Dawn Silvius This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 210-494-8884 Ext. 210
	Pastor Dawn was born into a mobile family. In each place the family settled, priority number one was to join a Lutheran congregation. Pastor Dawn grew up with roots in worship and fellowship and she learned to know the church as a place of profound welcome in Christ’s name. She met Jim Silvius on a Luther League retreat in the mountains of southern California. After a year when she was an exchange student in Germany and another year when she was a college student in Minnesota, she managed to get back to California where she and Jim were married and where they settled down to raise a family. Two sons, Erik and Pete, and daughter, Julie, were all born in California. They are now grown with families of their own and they all reside in central Texas. Ask her about her grandchildren! Pastor Dawn is a graduate of Texas Lutheran College and Princeton Theological Seminary. She interned at St. Bartholomew Lutheran Church in Trenton, NJ and has served as pastor at Prince of Peace Lutheran, Princeton Junction, NJ, Emmanuel Lutheran, Tekamah, NE and St. John Lutheran Church in Jourdanton, TX. From 2006 until mid-2011 she served as an Intentional Interim in the Southwestern Texas Synod. Pastor Dawn likes to join people gathered around a table – to collaborate, to share a meal, to share prayer and conversation, and, most of all, at the Table where Jesus says, “…given for you and for all people.”
Pastor Steven J. Cox This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 210-494-8884 Ext. 203
	Pastor Steve is a lifelong Lutheran, born and raised in Alvin Tx. He attended Texas Lutheran University where he received a BA in Music with an emphasis on voice and choral directing. He has served multiple congregations in the hill country as choir director, youth director, outreach coordinator and multimedia director. He felt called to ordained ministry and entered the Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest (www.lsps.edu) in the fall of 2004. He graduated with a Masters of Divinity degree and was ordained in 2008. His first call was to a wonderful community in the Brenham country side at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Rehburg. He served as pastor there for 3 years before taking this call to APLC. Pastor Steve met the love of his life, Rebecca, prior to seminary and married her after his first year in 2005. Just nine months later they were blessed with their first child Elisia Jane. During his first call at Rehburg, Steve and Becca were blessed with their second child, Samuel Craig. Steven loves spending time with his family and making his kids laugh hysterically. He loves music and plays multiple instruments, but is most fond of the guitar and singing. His door is always open for good conversation, a good cup of coffee or a good jam session. Stop on by.

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	Matt Goodson Minister of Music This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 210-494-8884 ext.21
		Matthew Goodson has been Minister of Music and Organist at Abiding Presence since July 1998. He has been playing the organ in church since he was 16 years old. A native Texan, Matt has served Lutheran and Presbyterian churches in San Antonio, Dallas and New York. As Minister of Music for Abiding Presence Lutheran Church, he has grown the program to include choirs for all ages and spearheaded the effort to procure and install the new Chancel Organ, fulfilling a longtime dream for the congregation. Before coming to Abiding Presence, he served simultaneously as Music Director of Grace Lutheran Church and Assistant Organist at First Presbyterian Church in downtown San Antonio. A graduate of Winston Churchill High School, Matt studied voice and organ at the University of Texas, San Antonio with Herald Stark and Bess Heironymus, and organ at Texas Lutheran College with Ed Reike. He has been awarded the Service Playing and Colleague certificates by the American Guild of Organists and, in 2003, Matt was awarded the Ministry of Music Award of Distinction by the National Religious Music Alliance.

	Mike Ceyanes Minister of Youth This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 210-494-8884 ext. 224
		Mike was born in Austin, Texas but grew up in the Houston area. Through out high school and college he worked with a number of youth organizations, camps, and churches. Some of them include the Missouri City YMCA, The First Coloney Aqua Camp, Cross Trails Ministries at Camp Chrysalis, and New Hope Lutheran Church. He graduated from Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) in the summer of 1998 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. He began his junior and senior high ministry at APLC in January of 1999. Since being hired Mike has completed the Youth and Family Ministry Certification School with the The Center for Youth Ministries of Wartburg Seminary. He has proudly served the youth and families of APLC for the last 10 years
	Sue Evans Minister of Community Life This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 210-494-8884 ext. 204
		Sue has been with APLC since 2003. Sue is the business administrator for the church, as well as the person who provides and communicates activities for the church. If you questions about APLC, Sue can be reached in the office from 8 am – 5 pm Mondays - Fridays. Sue and her husband have been members of APLC since 2003. They have two children, Alex and Addy.
	Frances Harrelson Dayschool Director This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Dayschool 210-491-9565
		Working in the Early Childhood field has always been a passion for Frances. In the 18 years that Frances has been director of Abiding Presence Day School, the school as grown from a two day a week Mother’s Day Out with 25 children to a four day NAEYC accredited day school with over 90 children. Frances is married with two children and two granddaughters – one of them attending the day school now!
	Gaye Hank Administrative Assistant This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 210-494-8884 ext. 220
		After several years of volunteer service in the music office, Gaye joined the APLC Staff in 2006. Her work continues to focus on administrative assistance with the music office and has recently been expanded to include administrative assistance with financial recordkeeping and backup for business office duties. Additionally, she produces the weekly worship bulletins as well as programs for most special events at APLC. Gaye is also a long time Sanctuary Choir member and serves as both a Cantor and Liturgist. Gaye and her husband Dennis were married at Abiding Presence in 1991.


	Sandy Musk Music Associate This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 210-494-8884 ext. 227	Sandy Musk is the director of the Children’s Chorus, Chapel Chimers, and she accompanies the Sanctuary Choir. Her introduction into the music world began when she started taking dancing lessons at age 4. It followed with piano and organ lessons in 3^rd and 6^th grade. With playing the organ for daily church services in seventh grade, she started playing for weddings when she was thirteen years old. Sandy is a San Antonio native and graduate of Holmes High School and Incarnate Word College. She received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from UTSA, and her Master of Music degree from Sam Houston State University. She also has an Early Childhood Endorsement, as well as a Kodaly Certification. She is presently in her 33^rd year of teaching elementary music to the children of Northside School District. Sandy’s pride and joy are her two children, who have grown up with band, dancing, sports, and are very computer savvy.
	Cissi Glendening Wedding Coordinator 210-494-8884	Cissi Glendening has been the wedding coordinator at Abiding Presence since 1993, having worked with every pastor at APLC, for weddings both on and off campus, since that time. She is active in the Sanctuary Choir, the Worship and Music Committee, and has previously served as executive director of the congregation. For questions concerning weddings, please call the church at 494-8884, and they will put you in contact with Cissi.