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Called By God
She has been head elder of the large Pioneer Memorial Church.
Experiences that seem forbidding to many are where Carolyn finds her calling—she
loves “to walk with people through grief and loss, illness,” the tragedies of life. She
wakens them to “WHO they are in God’s eyes, no matter the circumstance.”
Vincross, Tara Vinyard
Tara writes this about her call: “As I was involved in a youth and young adult
summer ministry as assistant director, I felt God calling me to full-time ministry. I felt a
burning passion in my soul to share the joy, peace, love, and wholeness that can be
found only in Jesus. I knew I could do nothing else. This calling was recognized and
affirmed by my mentors and leaders.”
Tara graduated from Southwestern University with a BA in Theology in 2002. She is
serving as Associate Youth and Young Adult Director for the Washington Conference,
using her creative energy to help engineer a successful youth-reaching-youth doctrinal
series. Tara is excited about preparing to preach her own first full evangelistic series. She
has been blessed to baptize eight people whom she has prepared.
The Washington Conference plans to sponsor Ms. VinCross to the seminary in 2005.
Tara represents scores of young women at our colleges and seminaries around the world
and out in the field being mentored to use their gifts effectively for Jesus in the ministry.
Watts, Kit
Kit Watts broke ground by joining the pastoral staff of Sligo SDA Church in 1973 as
minister of publications. She found that her gifts were well suited to the position.
However, because she was pioneering, she found that a great deal of her energy was
consumed with defending a place for women. This reduced the opportunity for engaging
in ministry itself. In addition, there was no similar position to which she could expect to
move when she left Sligo.
Therefore Kit acquired a Master of Library Science degree and spent eight years as
periodical librarian at Andrews University. While there she acquired the educational
preparation of an MA in religion.
In 1987 Kit went to the Adventist Review as assistant editor. She felt a call “in the
sense that I want to help God's voice, His concerns, His assurance be better heard in
the world. The gifts I've come to identify in myself are for words—sometimes writing,
sometimes speaking, sometimes for programming and structure.”
After a decade at the Review Kit left to become director of the Women’s Resource
Center located at La Sierra University (half-time), the other half of her employment
being head of the Department of Communication for the Southeastern California
Conference. In 2002 she moved to full-time employment for the conference, where she
is Assistant to the President for Communication. She still remains Special Projects
Coordinator for the Women’s Resource Center.

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