Church Staff and Contact Information

Pr. Steve Harms
Senior Pastor
steve@peacejourney.org

Pr. Steve has an Masters of Divinity (M.Div) and his MA in Theatre Arts, and his years in ministry have taken him from the streets of the Tenderloin in San Francisco to the streets of Danville. Steve has previously served as the President of the Interfaith Council of Contra Costa County and remains actively engaged in deepening Interfaith connections within the community. Pr. Steve provides compassionate pastoral care and is a gifted preacher who enjoys creative worship. Steve has maintained a long-standing involvement in and passion for justice advocacy and is a teacher of Tai Chi Chuan. Steve and Bev have three sons. Theologically empowered within his own tradition, he feels free to explore, learn about, encourage and celebrate other faith traditions.

Pr. Margareta Dahlin Johansson
Spiritual Direction
margareta@peacejourney.org

Pr. Margareta was selected by the Diocese of Stockholm to be trained as a Spiritual Director in 1996 along with her ministry as an ordained Hospital Chaplain at the Karolinska University Hospital from 1977-1998 where she was a Senior Chaplain with a special focus on Women and Children. She is also a graduate of St. Luke’s Institute in Stockholm with a Diploma in Therapy. She’s a founder of the Forum for Medical Ethics (1992-1998) – an interdisciplinary work group of physicians, nurses and theologians at the Karolinska Hospital. Pr. Margareta has provided Pastoral Care in congregations in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Danville, California. She works in both English and Svenska/Swedish.

Sue Field
Minister of Music
sue@peacejourney.org

Sue was born in the UK and emigrated to the US in August 1982, with husband Michael and their 1 year old son, Hugh. Their daughter, Julia was born in the US in 1984. Sue has been Minister of Music at Peace Lutheran since September 2006. For more information, please visit Sue’s website at www.fieldstudio.org.

Rev. Elizabeth Chandler Felts
Youth Ministry
elizabeth@peacejourney.org

Elizabeth grew up in a small mining town in southern Illinois and received degrees from Northwestern University and Harvard Divinity School. She was ordained in the United Church of Christ and has served churches in Boston, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay area. On leave of absence from full-time ministry so she can enjoy her daughter’s childhood, Elizabeth works part-time with the Peace youth. Elizabeth and husband Curt Vass are parents of Abigail and an old golden retriever, Gilda. Elizabeth is a daily runner, has studied violin for six years (and plays very badly), enjoys cooking, baking, reading, Bach, bluegrass and hamsters, and is rarely seen without a Pepsi in her cup holder.

.Rev. Anita Cadonau-Huseby
Children’s Sermon and Website
anita@peacejourney.org

For 15 years Anita served in full-time licensed ministry as a children’s pastor and earned her Masters of Divinity in 2003 from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. She is ordained for Christian ministry by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and has come to Peace Lutheran Church after four years of children’s ministry and pastoral work within the Disciples of Christ. Anita leads the children’s time in church each Sunday morning and developed and maintains the church website. Anita is active in ministry to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Christians in the Bay area and through the ministry at sisterfriends-together.org.