
Meet Our Spiritual Care Team
All of our chaplains have had advanced religious or spiritual training and at least one unit of clinical pastoral education (CPE). CPE is an interfaith educational experience, open to people of all faiths and traditions, that uses an action-reflection-action instructional method and supervised practice in realworld settings to prepare clergy and spiritual care practitioners to provide professional spiritual care.
Skills and Interests
Whether currently on our roster or not, SCS Maine maintains a network of Spiritual Care Providers with skills and interests in the following categories (And More!).
After Suicide Care
Anti-racism
Bereavement and Grief
Bible study
Board Certified Chaplain
Chronic Illness
CISM
Clinical Chaplaincy
Community Support
Community-based care for people experiencing homelessness and poverty.
Corporate Chaplaincy
Corrections/Jail
CPE/T Clinical Supervisor
Different Cognitive Abilities
Disaster Response
End of Life
Emergency Management
Emergency Services
Faith-based small groups
Godly Play
Grief Yoga
Hospice Care
Hospital
Immigrant Communities
Law Enforcement
Life Review
Logistic Support
Memory Challenged
Mental Health
Military
Mindfulness Groups - meditation
One-on-One Spiritual Support
Palliative Care
Pastoral care/business ethics
Pastoral care/ faith community
Pastoral Counseling
Phone and Internet Spiritual Care
Post Pregnancy
Public Speaking
Recovery
Small Support Groups
Spiritual direction
Stress Management
Suicide Prevention
Supply Ministry/ Preaching
Worship leadership in atypical settings
Worship Leadership in faith based communities
Rev. Madonna J. Arsenault
Madonna is a mother and grandmother, ordained minister and chaplain, healer, clinical therapeutic musician, traditional herbalist and writer, and a woman who is full of grace and peace.
Bea Broder-Oldach
Bea is board-certified Chaplain with experience serving in health care and community settings, Bea seeks to meet people where they are as they are, offering a supportive, listening presence and spiritual care.
Rev Pamela M Brouker
Learning about people and empowering one another to continue through life's journey is a gift and chaplaincy has been a profession that I enjoy. There is sacredness in shared time with people for the purpose of learning, supporting growth, and finding meaning in life. I enjoy people and nature and believe that healing, reconciliation, and peace is possible with mutual effort and care.
Rev. Linda Card
Linda is and interfaith chaplain with training and experience working with the Center for Grieving Children and is interested in working with people with different abilities and the senior population.
Jake Fahey
Jake Fahey is an interspiritual chaplain and community organizer building local relational power and seeding systems of liberation. Jake works with SCS Maine caring for the unhoused and those with mental health and substance use challenges
Rev. Elizabeth Farmer
Liz is an ordained chaplain and meditation teacher with experience in street ministry, health care, and carceral settings. She currently co-leads a spiritual community dedicated to the intersection of social justice and Buddhist teachings.
Rev. Sue Gabrielson
Sue is a 3/4 time minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Myers, Florida. She has worked in education, law enforcement, and on the Semester at Sea program. Sue offers spiritual care in both Spanish and English for SCS Maine.
Rev. Lindy Howe
Rev. Lindy is an interfaith Hospice chaplain, pastor of two churches and yogi at heart. Lindy loves animals and people and all kinds of spirituality while meeting folks wherever they are on life's journey.
Rev. Mabel Laird
Mabel Laird, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, is passionate about Mental Health Advocacy, Reduction of Stigma, and lifting up the underserved and marginalized members of our wide community.
Rev. Abby Hall Luca
Rev. Abby Hall Luca is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist whose spacious and affirming approach makes her the ideal companion for the "spiritual but not religious" seeker.
Rev. Melissa Marquis
Reverend Melissa Marquis specializes in hospice, mental health, and military chaplaincy. She has a BSW and BA in psychology from Rhode Island College. She graduated with a Masters of Divinity in 2011 from Bangor Theological Seminary and was ordained in April 2013.
Yvette McDonnell
Centered around love, healing, and an intuitive understanding of ancestral wisdom that honors the many ways of knowing in the world, Yvette encourages people to breathe slowly and savor each moment, so that they can bring integrated awareness into their lives.
Rev. Karen St. Peter
Karen St. Peter (she/her) is an Interfaith Minister experienced in working with people who are differently abled with learning and physical differences. She also has experience working with people experiencing substance abuse disorder.
Rev. Herode J. Thomas
Herode J. Thomas was born and raised into a seventh day Adventist Christian home and has been in ministry since 2005. Herode offers support in French, English, and Haitian Creole. He also serves as a reserve Navy Chaplain. Herode’s believes no matter what you are experiencing, we can all be human together.
Sally Thomas
Sally Thomas, D.Min. is a listener. Trained as a spiritual companion and chaplain, Sally's doctoral research focused on how families and friends might care for one another spiritually in a practice called Wondering Together.
Rev. Jackie Thornton
Jackie is our Clinical Director. She earned an Master of Divinity degree from Bangor Theological Seminary. She is a certified Maine Law Enforcement Chaplain with 16 years of experience in serving Law Enforcement Agencies.
Vanessa Titang
Vanessa Titang (she/her/they) is a minister in the Unitarian Universalist denomination motivated by the belief that the Divine is Love, and Love is an action.
Brian K. Wilcox
Brian's training includes an M.Div., MFT, Ph.D., and clinical chaplaincy certification. He is interspiritual, a writer, and works in hospitality services. He has served as a meditation and contemplative life instructor, minister to youth, pastor, professor of religion, and chaplain in corrections and hospice.
Rev. Dr. Lori Whittemore
Lori is a Board Certified Clinical Chaplain and Chaplain Educator. She has provided chaplain support for the American Red Cross, Maine CDC Maine Responds, Hospice of Southern Maine, Maine Medical Center and for Spiritual Care Services of Maine.
The Network
As SCS Maine is an ever evolving organization, expanding and shifting to address the pressing needs of our communities, we have a large network of spiritual care providers who bring with them a wealth of expertise and experience in various circles of care.