OAKLAND, CA, November 06, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present the Rev. Pamela Lee Cranston with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Rev. Cranston celebrates many years of experience in her professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Raised in Old Deerfield, MA, the Rev. Cranston was not always religious, but this changed while she was attending college at Stetson University in Florida when she met an Episcopal priest who had the gift of healing. After she was baptized at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, DeLand, FL, she moved forward full force into lay ministry. After a year of ministry and chaplaincy training, she was hired as Executive Director of the Volunteer Corps for the Episcopal Church at 815 Second Ave, New York City from 1972-1974.
While in New York City and feeling a call to monastic life, she flew to England in January 1974 to join the Community of Saint Francis (CSF) in Somerset, England and became the first American Franciscan nun in the Episcopal Church. While there, she served the elderly and dying in their nursing home, preached, and assisted the Society of St. Francis with their annual pilgrimage to Lindisfarne. Several months later she flew to California to help start the first house of Anglican First Order Franciscan nuns in America in San Francisco, CA. While there, she ministered as a prison chaplain at the San Francisco County Jail, assisted the homeless at the Catholic Worker House and started a free lunch program for undocumented women and children in the Mission District called Mi Casa, Su Casa.
In June 1978, she left the convent and worked as a counselor, health educator and administrator with various alcoholism programs for the San Francisco Department of Public Health from 1978 to 1985 serving in the Tenderloin and Haight-Ashbury Districts. In addition, from 1981-1983, she helped start the Episcopal Sanctuary serving the homeless at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. From 1983-1985, she also worked part time as a hospice chaplain for the Visiting Nurses Association of the East Bay. She received her Bachelor of Arts from San Francisco State University in California in 1984, majoring in Interdisciplinary Social Science and minoring in Gerontology. During this time, she also met and later married her husband Edward E. Cranston on August 18, 1984.
Feeling a call to the priesthood, Rev. Cranston attended seminary from 1985-1988 at Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. She graduated from there earning a Master of Divinity with Distinction after writing her thesis: "Eremeticism in the Anglican Tradition: A Historical Survey of the Past Twenty-Five Years."
In June 1989, she was ordained a deacon and as a priest in June 1990 by the Rt. Rev. William E. Swing at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Rev. Cranston then served as a pastoral assistant at Grace Cathedral from 1988 to 1990 and next as an associate rector of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Danville, California from 1990- 1994. Next she served as associate rector of the All Souls Parish, Berkeley, California from 1995-1998. After this, she ministered as an associate priest at St. Cuthbert's Episcopal Church, Oakland, California from 1998-2006 and then became their Vicar from 2006-2015. From 1998-2014, she also held the position of chaplain for Hope Hospice Inc. in Dublin, California and simultaneously also served the elderly as part time chaplain at St. Paul's Towers in Oakland, California from 2001-2017. She retired in 2017. Currently, she is the volunteer pastoral associate at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Castor Valley, VA. In 1982, she began doing spiritual direction and leading retreats which she continues to do to this day.
In addition to her professional work as a priest, Rev. Cranston served the Episcopal Diocese of California first as co-chair and later as chairperson of the Clergy Wellness Commission from 1992-2009. Her book "Clergy Wellness and Mutual Ministry" was published by the Episcopal Diocese of California in 2000.
Always interested in writing, Rev. Cranston founded St. Huberts Press in 2002, who published her books "The Madonna Murders" in 2003 and "Coming to Treeline: Adirondack Poems" in 2005. Ms. Cranston has been a regular contributor of poetry, essays and reviews to several literary and professional publications for more than thirty years.
The Rev. Cranston has previously been selected for inclusion in multiple editions of Who's Who of American Women.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to her profession and the Marquis Who' s Who community, Rev. Cranston has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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