Often when men have written history, they have left out those who mattered most: women, children, and other marginalized communities. This service centers the stories and communities of those whom men left out.

Bio:

Born in Los Angeles, Rebecca spent her early years in northern California, middle school in Arkansas at the height of the Civil Rights movement, and high school and university in British Columbia, Canada. She taught elementary school for five years in Canada before moving to Greece and eventually to Hawaii, where she has lived since 1981.

In Hawaii, Rebecca worked as a NAUI Assistant SCUBA instructor, taught various grades and subjects in public and private schools, started a tutoring company and a substitute-teacher placement service (which she operated for over three decades), wrote several books, attended culinary school, taught vegan cooking classes at Castle Medical Center, cooked for a jazz club, volunteered with numerous philanthropic organizations, and much more.

In 2022 Rebecca Woodland graduated from Vancouver School of Theology (Canada) with a Master of Divinity in Indigenous Studies, and next month she will travel to Italy for graduation from the Mastery Program of Milan Art Institute. (For Rebecca, art is therapy, a meditative process yielding visible results. Some of her best sermon ideas come while painting.)

As her ocular vision diminishes, Rebecca’s inner vision has become more vibrant and expressive. Her background as an educator, chef, artist, flower arranger, business owner, scuba diver, author, dual citizen and world traveler provides Rebecca with a unique, expansive perspective which is expressed in her art, her writing, her teaching, and her preaching. She lives in Honolulu with her husband.