Sister Pat was born in northwestern Ontario, Canada and graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec as a physical therapist. After the death of her first husband, she came to live in the United States, moving with her four children to Phoenix, Arizona. During the course of her career, she has moved around the country, finally returning to Mesa, Arizona in 1999. Sister was ordained an independent Catholic priest in May, 2000 and was incardinated into the Church of Antioch in December, 2000. Sr. Pat currently works as a physical therapist in a nursing home in Payson, Arizona and is the Dean of the Northern Deanery of the Diocese of Arizona for the Catholic Church of Antioch. Sister Pat professed first vows in May of 2002 and is attached to Sophia House. Sr. Pat serves as the Secretary for the Order.

Brother M. Guadalupe Hardin, OC

Brother M. Guadalupe was born and raised in Dodge City, KS. Raised a devout Roman Catholic, he served over 9 years in Religious Life, most notably as a Franciscan Brother. He has been involved with the Maronite Rite, but now is a member of the Episcopal Church. He feels called to a Healing Apostolate in all its forms, and works full time as a X-Ray Technologist and Medical Assistant.

Brother professed First Vows at the Order's General Assembly of May, 2003. He resides at Caritas House in Wichita KS with his cat, Domenic.

Brother M. Guadalupe is thankful to God for having been led to the Ecumenical Order of Charity and feels very blessed to share the journey with his fellow Companions.

Dennis McCoubrey

Brother Dennis was born in 1946 at the beginning of the “baby boomers” era. He was raised in Detroit when there were distinct ethnic neighborhoods and when life was good.  It was a time when a “good respectable kid” could skip school, go downtown and catch a movie without fear.

In 1968 Brother Dennis entered St Lawrence Seminary in Mt Calvary, WI.  The seminary was run by the Capuchins and provided the exposure needed to realize that at the ripe old age of 21 we could actually change the world and bring an unjust war to a just end. 

Reality set in and Brother Dennis married and fathered 4 adorable children.  Raising them was a continuous job and still is for that matter.  In 1992 he acquired a new best friend/sister in the form of his former wife.  Although divorced they have been able to create a bond that serves them and the children well.

In May of 2008 Brother Dennis entered his novitiate year with the Order of Charity.  He is also enrolled in Sophia Divinity School and hopes to be ordained to the priesthood sometime in 2009.

Kathryn Scarsdale

Kathy considers herself a Progressive Christian who looks at ecumenical relationships as the hope of the future.  Having grown up Southern Baptist and then spending thirty years in the Episcopal Church, her religious background has been exciting. She has seen big changes in these two religious bodies, experiencing the best and worst of religion and learning much. Kathy is a seeker who has spent years studying the Bible, church history, theology as well as the writings of contemporary authors on biblical history and theology. She has taught, mentored, and served as a chaplain in hospital, nursing home and to hospice patients.

Kathy lives in Harrison, Arkansas with her husband Mike, three cats and a Black Lab. She and Mike have two adult sons.  Her career work is now part time in a business where for the past twenty three years she has been Vice President in charge of sales. Her work experience led her into vocational technical education leadership as a state board member on the Arkansas Workforce Education Board. She has also worked with apprenticeship, shadowing, plant tours and Leaders in Industry programs.

Kathy entered the Order’s Formation Program as a postulant during the May 2008 General Assembly.

Sharon Konrad

Sharon was born in the state of Queensland in Australia in 1949 and grew up in a thriving small sugar town. She was educated by the Sisters of Mercy all through Primary School, High School and her first four years of Nurse Training to become a Registered Nurse. Sharon went on to train as a Midwife in Melbourne and found she had discovered her place in Nursing in working with mothers and babies. Sharon continued on to England for a working holiday and completed her District Nursing Midwifery there as there was no such thing in Australia. After 2 years abroad she returned home and then soon after did her Maternal and Child Health Community Training. Mothers and babies has been the career path that Sharon has loved over many years and she is passionate about society putting all it can into building nurturing resilient families.

Sharon married and has 2 birth children, a son and a daughter, both now adults. She also is mother to two stepsons, who are married with children, so she is now also a grandmother. Sharon feel blessed in having a very close connected family, and though now separated from her husband, they remain married and keep in touch weekly.

Over the years Sharon has worked in Hospital Visiting and taking Communion to the sick and with St. Vincent de Paul as well as being very involved in other areas in the School/Parish Communities. She retired early from her work due to a chronic health condition and now does some Hospital Visiting as well as taking calls from people dealing with chronic health conditions. Sharon finds she does not have to go looking for things to do as The Almighty has a way of sending things her way as The Almighty sees fit, and she finds family life still a fulltime function.

As a girl at school, Sharon could remember hearing about three things which have grown over the years to be the impetus in her living out her life in whatever circumstances she finds herself; Practicing the Presence of God; the awareness that we are all Members of the Mystical Body of Christ and hearing about St Elizabeth of Hungary having the image of the face of Christ appear to her as she undid the cloak of a poor person to whom she was giving care.

While looking for a deeper foundation in her spiritual life, Sharon came across The Founding Document which she says is both a “clarion call” and also a “setting of the seal” on what she was looking for as a way to grow more fully into living out the great first commandment that Jesus gave us. Sharon remains a practicing Roman Catholic but is very interested in all people knowing they are children of God no matter what denomination or religion they come from. She believes in the saying of Rumi, the Sufi Mystic in his saying “The current of love from the One God is flowing throughout the entire universe. Each person is a current of the Essence of God which permeates him”. So, Sharon is deeply delighted to have been accepted as a postulant and to be travelling the path now with the Companions and Associates of The Ecumenical Order of Charity.