Rev. Evangeline Rand (or Pastor Vangie) is a provisional elder in the United Methodist Church.  She grew up in a logging family in Forks, WA.  She has a B.A. from the Evergreen State College in Olympia and a Master of Divinity from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.

She’s served at Haller Lake UMC in Seattle; Oroville UMC and Tonasket Community Church in North Okanogan county; Centralia UMC and Rochester UMC.  

Before life as a United Methodist, she served in campus ministry at Evergreen; taught English as a foreign language at a high school in Budapest, Hungary; spent a summer teaching English in Mexico City at a church; and worked in filing at Western IRB in Olympia.  

She spent a decade as a barista in Seattle, including at Pike Place Market.  She loves exploring art, culture, and alternative music.  She is the human for a cranky old orange tabby named Rocky.  

She works toward cultivating Brave Spaces for people to be authentic in deconstructing narrow and harmful narratives.  She emphasizes choosing curiosity over assumption.   She believes God’s very nature celebrates Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.  

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.–Desmond Tutu

Book her for a chat in person or via Zoom here: calendly.com/pastorvangierand