To be Human is to Live with Limits

Caring professionals address ways to live with some of life's obstacles

 

Childcare is available through 6th grade. You must register for childcare a week early in the nursery or call the church by the Wednesday prior to each session in March.

 
Dr. Mary Chase-Ziolek joined North Park University seminary faculty in 1999 to direct the faith and health program, combining the disciplines of health care, theology, and spirituality. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she is an author, and public speaker. She is an advisor for Covenant churches interested in developing health ministries. Dr. Chase-Ziolek completed her doctorate in nursing at Loyola University Chicago in 1998. Her doctoral dissertation was "Health Ministry in the Life of a Congregation with a Parish Nurse." Dr. Chase-Ziolek has presented and written extensively on congregationally-based health ministries and parish nursing. She authored Health, Healing and Wholeness: Engaging Congregations in Ministries of Health. She has also done work on seminary wellness and clergy health. 

Dr. Kaye Zwiacher is a Board Certified Psychiatrist who trained at the Cleveland Clinic. She had a private practice in Wichita Kansas, where she also ran the Inpatient Service at St. Joseph's Hospital for the University of Kansas, Wichita, Psychiatric Residents and Psychology Interns. After moving to Wisconsin with her husband, she was the Medical Director for CHN LifeSkills, a large multidisciplinary psychiatry practice in a rural community. In Alaska, she works with the CYAK program, helping young adults who are experiencing issues that hamper their transition into adult leadership roles. She is also establishing a private practice in Eagle River.

Dr. Ross Tanner is a practicing and board certified diabetologist and a lipidologist for the last 20 years. He traveled to Alaska in 2003 to give a talk to physicians at the local hospitals. Dr. Tanner and his family moved to Alaska in 2005 and he currently practices at the Diabetes and Lipid Clinic of Alaska.