About Our Minister in Residence Program
The Community Church does not have a permanent minister. Rather, it has developed a unique program whereby retired clergy from the US are typically invited for a period of two months to lead our worship service on Sundays and assist in the spiritual and other short term needs of the congregation during their stay. We provide round trip transportation between San Miguel and the minister and his/her spouse's closest to home international airport, and we provide an apartment for them to live in while they are here.
Currently we have several ministers who have returned one or more times. Our ministers are ordained in various denominations such as: Presbyterian, United Methodist, ELCA (Lutheran), United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, Episcopalian and others.
Our Current Minister-in-Residence
The Rev. Daniel Harrell
July through August 31, 2024
Daniel lives in Minneapolis where he is mostly retired aside from part time work as a therapist and a chef’s assistant. He worked for more than 40 years as a pastor for churches in New Hampshire, Boston and Edina, MN. He served a short stint as Editor-in-Chief for Christianity Today magazine, has written numerous articles and books and taught at various colleges, seminaries and other venues on issues mostly related to Christianity and science and psychology. He strives to live according to Galatians 2:19-20: “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.”
A Southerner by birth, Daniel hails from North Carolina and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Psychology and Religion (1983). A New Englander by choice, Daniel moved to Boston for the Red Sox and earned his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell seminary (1988) and his PhD in Psychology from Boston College (1993). Daniel is a widow (Dawn, 2019) and father to Violet (16). Now residing in Minnesota by the will of God, he does life with Shelley Meadows, his lovely partner of four years, and her three adult children. Daniel enjoys cooking, art, travel, kayaking when he can, cycling and squash (the racket sport, but the vegetable too).
