Paul Schneider is the pastor of Burien Community Church, where he has served for the last four and a half years. A lifelong American Baptist, he graduated with an MDiv from the Berkeley School of Theology in 2017 and was ordained by his home church, First Baptist Church of Berkeley in 2018. He is a father of five: three his own, and his niece and nephew as well. As part of his Master’s project for his MDiv, he founded and still runs an interfaith ministry of presence at fan-run science fiction and fantasy conventions called The Oasis Project. He is currently pursuing a DMin with BST with a focus on intersections, and lack thereof, between the church and pop-culture. You can reach Paul at paul@ea-abc.org.
Shavon Walker is a member of First Baptist Church of Berkeley, assists with services for Burien Community Church in Washington, and is a graduate of Berkeley School of Theology. She, like many of her peers, has been acquainted with social media since the 1990s. At the start of the pandemic, she realized that there was a need for a ministry based on social media. To that end, she has given seminars on social media to her local church, made short videos on TikTok, and currently does a cooking stream with an eye toward pastoral care on Twitch, a real time livestream platform (twitch.tv/jane_henry). She lives with her husband, Jahi, and her cat, Mocha. Please contact Shavon if you are interested in having her consult with your congregation on using social media in your ministry.