It came to my attention the other day that my name doesn’t appear anywhere as the “manager” of the Support Team Network. I’d like to say that’s because I’m an incredibly humble guy and don’t care a thing about getting credit for anything. Alas, that isn’t the case. It boils down to simple incompetence: I […]
Author: Drexel Rayford
Drexel has been senior pastor of four churches in Kentucky and Virginia, a psychiatric ward chaplain, denominational bureaucrat, and an erstwhile indie singer/songwriter/story-teller and seeker of authentic human vocation. Currently, Drexel is working at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center in the capacity of The Support Team Network manager, a hospital-based community partnership aimed at nurturing healing communities for discharged patients. He loves kayaking, road cycling, hiking, and all kinds of photography, but he loves his wife Vicki and blended family of three adult children more. He holds a Ph.D. in the Psychology of Religion and a pastoral counseling certificate from the University of Louisville, Department of Psychiatry.