Executive Director - Rev. Dr. Sean Chow

Rev. Dr. Sean Chow’s most inner desire is to be a part of a God driven movement that impacts the world for God’s glory.. Currently serving as the Executive Director of the San Diego Presbytery, his aim is to prepare, equip, and sustain leaders to do the work in which God calls them He is leading the presbytery through a strategic vision to plant churches, revitalize churches, and be more missionally focused.

Prior to being the Executive Director Sean was involved in starting new expressions of the church both in practice and consulting. Sean was the Associate for 1001 New Worshiping Communities for Training and Leadership Cohorts for the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. He resourced and consulted with regional denomination bodies, churches, and church plants as they launch new creative expressions of church.

He is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University (2005), Master of Divinity from San Francisco Theological Seminary (2009) and a Doctor of Ministry at New York Theological Seminary (2022). Over the past twenty years of ministry, he has served churches in California and New Jersey. Sean is the author of “Rediscovering Vitality: A Handbook for Church Visioning and Missioning”. He is a frequent speaker to churches, committees, gatherings, and conferences.

Sean and his family live in Southern California where he can be found on a local tennis court having reconnected to an old passion. 

Acting Stated Clerk - Rev. Alex Wirth

Alex Wirth is a writer, educator and children's librarian who just so happens to be the acting stated clerk right now.  Alex got his BA in literature from UC Santa Cruz and his Master of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary.  He served as an associate pastor at churches in Chicago and San Diego before going back to graduate school, receiving his MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside's Palm Desert Low Residency MFA. Alex is revising his novel, teaching writing classes at Writer's Ink, teaching writing and composition at PLNU and serves as the librarian at Cabrillo Elementary.  Then, like the old, grizzled vet getting called out of retirement for one last heist, Alex now serves as acting stated clerk of the San Diego Presbytery as well.  

Bookkeeper - Kari Shenk

As an Independent Contractor, Kari provides small business owners with bookkeeping services, tax preparation, and HR support. Kari brings this experience to the Presbytery along with many years of general office administration. She and her husband live in the Point Loma area. They are parishioners at St. Agnes Church in Point Loma and have been part of the local Catholic community for more than 25 years. Their children attended St. Charles Borromeo Academy, Academy of Our Lady of Peace and St. Augustine High School where Kari and her husband were active volunteers on campus and various committees.

Oppertions Manager - Jennifer SEdgwick

Jennifer grew up in Los Angeles, CA and first came to live in San Diego to attend UCSD. While there she started attending La Jolla Presbyterian Church where she met her husband, Jim. After several more years in the Los Angeles area they returned to San Diego with their two daughters in 2012. She continues to be active at La Jolla Presbyterian playing handbells, assisting with the Sunday service AV, and going on short-term missions. Now that the girls are off on their own adventures she keeps busy kayaking, swimming, gardening, or relaxing in the window seat with a good book or her knitting. She is in the office Monday through Thursday and every other Friday.

Chair of the Executive Committee, Rev. Dr. Sam Codington

Sam Codington is the pastor and head of staff of Faith Presbyterian Church in the College Area of San Diego. He grew up as a pastor’s kid in a Presbyterian church in South Carolina. He has studied philosophy, literature, and ethics. He is nearing the completion of a DMin in which he is exploring ways Eurocentric colonization has shaped and animated worship liturgies, drawing insight from antiracist and decolonial sources. He is married to Esther, and they have a son, Ezra. They love being outdoors, hiking, running, tall trees, hummingbirds, and dusty rocks. Sam desires to a cultivate a deeper relationship with the earth, honoring the human and the more than human.

Presbytery Moderator, Ruling Elder Em Cummins

Dr. Emery (Em) Cummins, Presbytery Moderator, is a ruling elder at Pt. Loma Community Presbyterian Church and has been serving Presbytery committees for more than 40 years.  Em has degrees from Wheaton College, the University of Southern California, and Michigan State University.  He taught at Wheaton for two years before joining the counseling faculty at San Diego State University, where he retired after 39 years of service.  He and his wife Georgia are active in the music ministries at PLCPC and love to track their kids and grandkids (and a few great-grandkids) from the California coast to New Jersey.

Presbytery Vice-Moderator, Ruling Elder Judy Enns

Judy’s professional career has been in Education and Human Resources. She established a successful HR consulting and staffing firm, HR Solutions,  which conducted business nationally as a division of Eastridge Workforce Solutions.   She has been influential in enhancing the role of HR in companies of all sizes, and in promoting HR careers; she also teaches an HR course at UCSD.    Currently, Judy uses her professional skills to serve non-profit organizations as a board member and on governance committees for Pathways to Citizenship,  Plant with Purpose, Kingdom Builder Foundation, and Ascending Leaders.  She is currently Vice-Moderator for the San Diego Presbytery, sings with great joy in the SBPC choir, and co-leads a small group, a never-ending source of spiritual renewal and warm fellowship.   

She  holds a doctorate in Communication Theory and Research from The Ohio State University and has taught Communications at Illinois State University, California State University Los Angeles, College of the Virgin Islands, and Pasadena Nazarene College (now Point Loma Nazarene University).  She was also director and ESL instructor  at  the Women’s English Language Center, King Faisal University in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. 

She and her husband, Robert, enjoy  hiking, theater, good movies, reading, national parks, and world-wide travel, especially to tropical climates and warm waters, wherever they can experience God’s beautiful creation.