SueEllen Bennett - Director

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SueEllen has been the Director of St. James Children's Center since 1985. She is a dedicated early childhood education professional with a special gift for helping young children enjoy preschool and embrace a lifelong love of learning.

She is a certified Childcare Manager with Advanced Director's Credentials and is a member of:

* National Association for Education of Young Children

* Child Care Provider Association of the Keys (Past President)

* Florida Association of the Education of Young Children

* Florida Children's Forum Director Network

* National Association of Episcopal Schools

Charles Cannon - Fr.

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Highlights:

• Lifelong Episcopalian, 12 years as an ordained Deacon
• May 2011 graduate of the School of Theology at Sewanee  
• June 2011 ordained to the Episcopal Priesthood
• Experience in both church leadership and operational management in the secular world
• May 1985 Master degree in Clinical Social Work 
• 20+ Years Experience in counseling families, teens and those with life-threatening medical disorders

Ministry Gifts: Liturgy, Pastoral Care, Preaching, Community Building, and Teaching

Spiritual heroes: Thomas Merton, Basil Pennington, Henri Nouwen, & Evelyn Underhill

Spiritual Rule of Life: personal and public prayer, spiritual reading, and Bible study

Favorite Spiritual Quotation: “Only when we see ourselves in our true human context, as members of a race which is intended to be one organism and ‘one body,’ will we begin to understand the positive importance not only of the successes but of the failures and accidents in our lives. My successes are not my own. The way to them was prepared by others. The fruit of my labors is not my own: for I am preparing the way for the achievements of another. Nor are my failures my own. They may spring from failure of another, but they are also compensated for by another’s achievement. Therefore the meaning of my life is not to be looked for merely in the sum total of my own achievements. It is seen only in the complete integration of my achievements and failures with the achievements and failures of my own generation, and society, and time. “ - from No Man is an Island - Thomas Merton