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Verlyn Hemmen, M.Div., D.Min. - United Hospital
verlyn.hemmen@allina.com CPE Supervisor, Allina Clinical Pastoral Education

Verlyn is the Chaplain Manager and CPE Supervisor at United Hospital in St. Paul. His undergraduate degree is in psychology from Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. He has an M. Div. and a D.Min. from Western Seminary in Holland, Michigan. He took his first unit of Clinical Pastoral Education in Des Moines at Iowa Methodist and did his residency at Pine Rest in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ordained in the Reformed Church in America since 1979, he has served three parishes over a 20-year time span: Twin Lakes Reformed (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Church of the Saviour (Coopersville, MI); and Peace Reformed (Eagan, Minnesota). He began working at United Hospital in 2000 and offered the first unit of CPE there during the summer of 2000. He is married and has a son and a daughter.

 

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Judy Roska, M.Div., D.Min. - Abbott Northwestern Hospital
judith.roska@allina.com CPE Supervisor, Allina Clinical Pastoral Education

Judy is a CPE supervisor and chaplain at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. She grew up near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and graduated from the University of Colorado.  She received an M.A. in counseling from Gonzaga University, an M.Div. at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, and a D.Min. from the Claremont School of Theology in Southern California. Her CPE training included a residency at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics and supervisory training in Southern California. She began at Abbott in 2004, after fourteen years of ministry in Southern California where she served as a Congregational parish minister in Pomona, and launched a spiritual care and CPE program at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center as the first Supervisor of Pastoral Care. She is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and is the mother of a son. 
 

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Dick Sellers, M.Div., M.A. - Abbott Northwestern Hospital
richard.d.sellers@allina.com CPE Supervisor, Allina Clinical Pastoral Education

Dick is Director of the Allina Metro Hospitals Spiritual Care and Pastoral Education Department and is a CPE supervisor at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. He grew up in Fresno, California, and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He received an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City and an M.A. in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota. He completed Clinical Pastoral Education residency programs in Los Angeles, Denver, and Lexington, Kentucky before moving to Minneapolis. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and has been at Abbott Northwestern Hospital since 1977. He is married and is the father of three sons.

 

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Jim Tonneson, M.Div. - Mercy and Unity Hospitals
james.tonneson@allina.com CPE Supervisor, Allina Clinical Pastoral Education
 
Jim is a CPE supervisor and chaplain at Unity Hospital in Fridley and at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, MN. A native of North Dakota, he received his B.A. from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. He is a graduate of Luther Seminary in St. Paul where he received his Master of Divinity degree. He served rural parishes in North Dakota for 5 years. He completed a 3 year residency in CPE at the North Dakota State Hospital in Jamestown, ND.
He also completed an additional year of supervisory CPE at Methodist Hospital, Rochester, MN. He was the Director of Chaplaincy and CPE supervisor at Fergus Falls Regional Treatment center for over 20 years. He joined the  Allina CPE faculty in  June 2004. He is married and has two married sons and a married daughter all who live in the greater metro area.  

 

Kyle Vlach, M.Div. - St. Francis Regional Medical Center
kyle.vlach@allina.com Supervisory Candidate, Allina Clinical Pastoral Education

 

Kyle Vlach, a native Minnesotan, is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Covenant Church. He serves as a fulltime staff chaplain at Allina’s St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee, MN. His education includes a B.S. in Psychology and M.Div. with Post-graduate Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from Bethel Seminary, and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He completed both his CPE Internship and Residency at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Kyle is a CPE Supervisory Candidate with the Allina CPE Center, and is supervising intern groups at St. Francis, Allina’s newest CPE site. He is married and in process to adopt a child from China.

 

CPE Supervisory Students

 

Rev. Kimberly Goodman, BCC-APC, M.Div. - United Hospital
kimberly.goodman@allina.com Supervisory Student

 

Kim is CPE Supervisor in Training and Staff Chaplain at United Hospital in St. Paul. She has her B.A. from Concordia College, Moorhead and M.Div. from Luther Seminary in St. Paul. She did congregational internship in an Anglican church in the suburbs of London, England, and completed CPE residency at Abbott Northwestern. Kim is ordained in the Presbyterian Church, (U.S.A.) and is active in the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area. For the past eight years she has served as staff chaplain in oncology and mental health at United. Kim lives in south Minneapolis with her husband where she is active in neighborhood revitalization, house restoration, and community livability.

 

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Loren McGrail, M.Div. - Abbott Northwestern Hospital

Loren.mcgrail@allina.com

Loren is a chaplain and supervisor in training at Abbott Northwestern. She received her M. Div and Certificate in Parish Nursing and Health Ministries from Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, Massachusetts. She did her CPE residency and first year of pre-candidacy CPE work at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. She is an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ and is the mother of a young adult daughter.


 

 

Allina Clinical Pastoral Education Center 
800 East 28th St.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
55407-3799
Phone: 612-863-4370
Fax: 612-863-5785
E-mail us: cpe@allina.com

 

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