Dr. Crawford recently completed 35 years of service as Pastor of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care at Bel Air Presbyterian Church. She is President at Christian Formation and Direction Ministries, Southern California, and teaches on their faculty in a 2-year certificate program training spiritual directors.Â
A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary with an M.Div. and Th.M. in Practical Theology, she focused in Pastoral Care and Counseling. Care worked in chaplaincy and helped found the hospice program at Princeton Medical Center before her call to Bel Air Church, where she now serves. Care graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary with her D.Min. Her dissertation focused on spiritual direction for short-term mission. With a heart for the church, her greatest passion is to teach men and women in spiritual formation and direction. Her desire is to journey with people in this ministry and to help people go deeper in their relationship with Jesus Christ