Cindy Dwyer is a Board-Certified spiritual care professional through the National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC), with over a decade of leadership experience in spiritual care, grief support, and related services. As the Spiritual Care, Grief & Bereavement Services Lead Saint Elizabeth Foundation (Social Impact program SE Health), Cindy is guiding a national model of holistic, trauma-informed care. Her efforts focus on integrating spiritual care into SE Health’s digital transformation and fostering strategic partnerships to broaden the reach and impact of spiritual care, grief and bereavement services across SE Health’s Canadian health care service areas.

Cindy completed her Clinical Pastoral Education at St. Joseph’s London Regional Mental Health Centre in Ontario, Canada and Beaumont Health (now Corewell Health) in Michigan, USA. Her clinical background includes spiritual care roles at Hotel Dieu-Grace Hospital, Chatham Kent Health Alliance, and Journey Home Hospice, complemented by leadership positions at St. Joseph’s Elliot Lake General Hospital, the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie, and as Director of International Virtual Chaplaincy Services Inc.

We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with Clinical Pastoral Education International (CPEI) in establishing the Saint Elizabeth Foundation as an affiliate Clinical Pastoral Education program. This initiative aims to expand virtual access to CPE training and supervision across Canada.

Pastor Mario Phillip hails from the Spice Island of Grenada. He is an ordained minister who has pastored in several countries, including Grenada, Trinidad, the Philippines. He has completed two Masters degrees, one in the area of Missiology, and a second in the field of Philosophy. He also holds a PhD in New Testament Biblical Studies. He is also currently undergoing training in clinical pastoral and clinical pastoral chaplaincy.

Prior to migrating to the UK in 2018, he served the University of the Southern Caribbean as a lecturer in the theology department. He also served as the Sabbath School, Personal Ministry, Community Services, ADRA, Communication & Special Needs Director in the Grenada Conference of Seventh-day Adventist.

He has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at the University of the Southern Caribbean, and as an adjunct professor for the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies (Philippines). Currently he serves as the senior pastor for the Willesden and Emmanuel churches in the South England Conference. He also serves an adjunct professor of Andrews University, extension campus in Romania.

He has published several articles, and is currently one of several authors of the New Seventh-day Adventist International Bible Commentary (soon to be released) by the world church. He is the author of the volume on 2 Thessalonians for the New Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary.

Pastor Phillip is actively engaged in mission projects. He is the founder of iCare so iShare International, a humanitarian charity that is currently serving in India, Pakistan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Myanmar, and the Caribbean. He is also committed to integrating his church into the community in which it is planted. He also leads a Community Action Team (CAT) which comprises of community activists and champions, from communities surrounding his local church at Willesden. The Willesden church collaborated in sending

He served as the chair of the Brent Multifaith Forum which constitutes over 600 faith bodies in Brent, which seeks to work across cultural, denominational and ethnic lines in making structural and transformative changes to the lives of residents in the community.

Over the last two years Willesden church collaborated with their local community in sending humanitarian relief to St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the aftermath of the volcanic eruption. Containers were also sent to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake. Even more recently to Ukraine.

In an effort to address the food crisis in its community, the Willesden SDA church collaborated with the local community to launch a community kitchen that cooks food daily for the community. The local council in recognizing the importance of this work, recently granted the church a grant to upgrade its kitchen to an industrial kitchen and to purchase a vehicle for the delivery of food to the community.

Pastor Phillip is married to Dr. Krystal Phillip (a molecular biotechnologist), and together they have two children, Kairós and Kardía. As a family the Phillip’s enjoy doing missionary work, travelling and experiencing different cultures, but most importantly, following the will of God wherever He leads them.