Joyce Sasse

Rural Minister  
Box 92, 
Pincher Creek, AB  TOK 1WO
E-Mail: jsasse@telusplanet.net
Web Page: www.agri-ville.com/spiritualvignettes

Areas of Work  

• Storyteller, writer, theologian, community development worker, motivational speaker
• Weekly "Spiritual Vignettes" columnist for Western Producer  
• Retired Rural Minister (40 years of pastoral work)

Background  

• Proud Prairie Gopher raised on a farm-ranch at Milk River, Alberta
• Resource person at Waterton-Glacier International Writer’s Conference 2001
• Ordained as a Minister of the United Church of Canada
  - (Served on number of rural, multi-point Pastoral Charges in Saskatchewan and Alberta)
  - "Saddle Bag Minister" (4-year rural experimental ministry project)
• Executive Director, Saskatoon YWCA
• Worked with the Presbyterian Church in Republic of Korea as a community development worker (4 years)
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Saskatchewan; Master of Divinity, St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon.