Our Chaplains
Our International Chaplain - The Reverend Dr. Margaret Short DMin, MA MDiv, BCC
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The Rev.
Margaret Short, DMin, MA, MDiv, is a Daughter of the King currently
serving as the Assistant International Chaplain. She grew up in the US,
France, and Paraguay. She is a member of the Anglican Global Missions
Initiative and is a long-time Board Member for SOMA/USA, an Anglican
missions society. Margaret was the founder and director of the Pastoral
Care Dept. at Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico, for 24
years, and is currently serving part-time as a hospice chaplain and
providing educational stress and crisis debriefings for hospice staff.
She is a member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and
Dissociation. Her front line training/experience includes practical
application of Critical Incident Stress Management and Psychological
First Aid. Margaret was the Co-founder of the Southern New Mexico
Suicide Prevention and Survivor Support Coalition, and facilitated
suicide survivor support groups for over 12 years. She has been a
frequent speaker/facilitator on suicide prevention and aftercare, and on
Trauma-Informed Care for physicians, nurses, mental health counselors
and psychologists, pastors/chaplains, public school nurses, social
workers, treatment Foster Care parents, and Army military and civilian
employees in southern New Mexico. Margaret
has been an occasional lecturer in academic and church settings on
multiple topics including spirituality and medicine, medical ethics and
world views, suicide prevention, variations in culture and world view,
care for the dying, etc. Venues include the New Mexico State University,
Doña Ana Community College, and Vista College in Las Cruces, New
Mexico. In international teaching ministry, Margaret served the
Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic for 8 years as a Chaplain
for international medical students and as a faculty member for Spiritual
Direction at the Centro de Estudios Teológicos. She has ministered in
three languages as a guest lecturer on various subjects at Episcopal,
Anglican and Free Methodist seminaries in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic; Montevideo, Uruguay; Guayaquil, Ecuador;
and Yavatmal, India. Additional core presentations for clergy, laity,
and medical professionals include Trauma – Informed Ministry: Pastoral Care in Trauma, Crisis, and Loss, and a sequel: Trauma-based Dissociation of the Self: Pastoral Implications for Counseling, Evangelism, Inner Healing, & Deliverance. Also, Integrative Medicine: A Shifting Worldview (spiritualist trends in US healthcare and leading medical training institutions); The Alzheimer Caregiver’s Grief; Loss & Guilt: Exploring the Meaning of “Human” and the Care of the Human Spirit; Ethical Issues in Neonatal End of Life Care; and Domestic Violence: Where Are the Churches? (Theological Considerations of Oppression and Liberation). Margaret is the author of the book, Law and Religion in Marxist Cuba: A Human Rights Inquiry.
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Our National Junior Daughters Chaplain - The Rev. Andrea Rose Hayden
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The Rev. Andrea Rose-Marie Hayden was born in
Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She is the sixth of
seven siblings. Mother
Hayden earned her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the
Illinois Institute of Technology and worked for ten years as a
Pollution Control Officer with the Water Reclamation District of
Chicago. She
began her studies at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston,
Illinois where she graduated with her Masters in Divinity in 1998.
During her time in Chicago, Mother Hayden worked as the Province V Youth
Ministry Coordinator for the Episcopal Church of the United States of
America. Mother
Hayden has served in various dioceses throughout the Episcopal Church
as Associate Rector, Rector, and Chaplain at Howard University. She also
taught Bioethics at Howard University School of Medicine. Mother
Hayden inherited the love of the Daughters of the King from her mother,
who became a Daughter in 1935 when she was only 15 years old. Mother
Hayden’s first love has always been to encourage the spiritual growth of
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