Executive team
Russell K
ing, MBA
Executive Director and provider of spiritual and life coaching
Russell is a 20-year veteran nonprofit chief executive, writer, author, and poet. His books include A Hint of Frost: Essays on the Earth and Confessions of an American Dad, and two poetry chapbooks Harvest Work and Love Songs. Love Songs is available from the Christine Center bookstore. His servant leadership is intended to help move the Christine Center forward toward sustainability and into the next phase of its evolution. You can follow his journey here.
Annie Lea
Director of Spiritual Deepening Services and provider of spiritual guidance sessions
Annie has a background in traditional and alternative health care as an RN and holistic health business owner for more than 20 years. She began facilitating and promoting community events and programs in the area of wellness, spiritual awareness, meditation, centering prayer, and sound therapy in 2013. She is a graduate of the Christine Center’s “Spiritual Deepening for Global Transformation” 3-year certificate program and is a spiritual director trained through the Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction.
Volunteers
Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD
Prayer, presence, and programs, including spiritual guidance sessions
Sister Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD is a skilled volunteer facilitator and retreat guide dedicated to the recovery of the Christian mystical tradition and the honoring of intuition and creativity in spiritual deepening.
She is well known for her Franciscan approach to contemplative ecological consciousness and her workshops are grounded in the wisdom of the Christian mystics as well as contemporary spiritual thought both East and West.
Her mandala making and intuitive painting sessions are creative personal growth opportunities and she also offers individual intuition training and creativity coaching sessions.
In 1983 Gabriele authored a small book: Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen. She has been sharing her love of Hildegard ever since. Every September she hosts a Hildegard Fest at the Christine Center and a “Hilde-garden” is newly evolving.
Marge Zulaski, OSF, PsyD
Prayer, presence, and programs, including spiritual guidance sessions
Sister Marge Zulaski, OSF, Psy.D. is a depth psychologist and Jungian Analyst with a special interest in dreams. She volunteers to teach dream seminars and offers an understanding of Jung’s map of the soul as a way to wholeness.
Although she grew up in Chicago, Marge is very happy to be living among the trees here at the center. “Every day nature reveals something beautiful that feeds my soul.”
Henrita Frost, SSND
Prayer, presence, and programs, including spiritual guidance sessions
Sister Henrita is a volunteer spiritual director who participated in a program in spiritual direction at the Center for Spirituality and Justice in New York. Henrita’s desire at that time was to offer spiritual direction to people who were homeless and did not have the basic necessities for a comfortable life. That desire was short-lived because her congregation asked her to go to Rome. Since she has been at the Christine Center, she welcomes the opportunity to offer spiritual guidance to others with a particular emphasis on compassion and loving kindness.
Johanna Seubert, FSPA
Prayer, presence, and programs, including spiritual guidance sessions
Sister Johanna Seubert, FSPA is a volunteer spiritual director and retreat facilitator at the Christine Center. She is experienced in guiding and accompanying others in their spiritual unfoldment, and assists them in clarifying their own spiritual process. She welcomes people as they are and helps them take the next step to their unique spiritual development. As a Diamond Approach teacher Johanna has additional training and experience in guiding individual students to discover the innate beauty and depth of their true nature.
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Board of Directors
Amazing individuals, our board. With their generous hearts, keen minds, and deep experience, they move our dream forward.
Sherryl Andrus
chair, Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Wade Britzius
vice chair, Board of Directors, and chair, Strategic Planning Committee
Sr. Delmarie Gibney, FSPA
vice chair, Board of Directors
Bud Green
Rev. Patrick Siegler
chair, Donor Development Committee
Barbara Wulf
chair, Buildings & Grounds Committee
Russell King, executive director
Henry Eisenhauer, emeritus
Bela Maroti, emeritus