Jane DeYoung

Work Experience Prior to Hillside

• Pastor of True North Fellowship, an East Bay multi-church ministry for single Christians

• Independent project management consultant

• Director, Project Mentors, San Francisco (a project management consulting firm)

• Software systems developer, San Diego, Atlanta, Philadelphia

Education

• M. Div., American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, CA

• B.A. in French, University of Wisconsin

Family

• Husband Charlie / Daughter Jenna / Dog Percy

Likes

• Birding

• Yoga

• Hiking, day trips

• Taizé worship

• Time alone

Dislikes

• Cucumbers and eggplant

• Positional arguments

• Too much time alone

Favorite Food

• Three-way tie: cinnamon rolls, popcorn, French toast

Favorite verses

• Ephesians 2:13, John 13:34-35

Favorite movies

• Of Gods and Men

• The Coneheads

Favorite vacation spots

• Boulder Mountain Lodge in Utah

• Fishing on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania

When and where did you accept Christ as your Savior?

In June 1990 at a Bible study at Concord United Methodist Church. This was the fulfillment of a spiritual quest that started in 1983. 

My most vivid historical event memories

• All the traumatic events of the Sixties

• The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and of the Soviet Union in 1991