Center for Spiritual Living of the North Coast  

Here's were you can get to know our ministers, key speakers and teachers.

Reverend Ann Robben-Dott

Reverend Ann Robben-Dott was ordained in November of 1985 after a year of seminary training that focused on self healing, meditation, and spiritual counseling, by clairvoyant reading and a focus on spirit. Classes also covered ministerial activities such as weddings. Helping couples create individualized weddings has been and continues to be a particular joy. She also enjoys helping others to have clear communications with the "God of their Heart" the source of all, by teaching, reading and healing. Pulling form many traditions she brings life experiences and humor to her teaching. Her path began in a Catholic family, she studied within Tibetan Buddhism, the Shambhala tradition, the Church of Diving Man, various healing traditions, and is currently exploring Sufism. When Ann was ordained "Doc" (The Right Rev. M. F.. Slusher co-founder of the Church of Divine Man) said, "Decide where you want to be and put out your shingle" as he sent his students out to read and heal.

Two years later the Rev. Ann Robben was established in Astoria, Oregon, a place of childhood summers, Grandma and cousins. Now she is happily expanding her ministry to be a regular speaker as part of the Center For Spiritual Living of the North Coast Ministry team. She will also be helping at the center with her business and organizational skills. She is married to Jim Dott and have a child.

        Reverend Sandy Shipley

Reverend Sandy Shipley was introduced to metaphysics while living in Hawaii. This led to a career and location change in 1987. She was pastor of Westside Church of Religious Science in Lake Oswego, Oregon for 10 years, then took an educational sabbatical. Her current ministry and business is Sage Creative™, offering counseling, classes, workshops, and guest speaking. Find out more about her services by visiting http://www.sagecreative.org

Reverend Anakha Coman

Anakha's purpose is to support and encourage people to fully express their Divine Self and to live with increased health, passion and vitality.  She is masterful in creating experiences that enable people to remember, reveal and express the Sacred that is living inside through prayer, ritual, dance, meditation, theatre and all of the expressive arts.  These experiences are designed to support the recovery of our mystical nature and to more fully explore and express our life's purpose.  Anakha holds a Master's in Applied Behavioral Science, a Master's in Divinity and a certification in Spirituality, Health and Medicine.  She is an Expressive Arts facilitator, an ordained New Thought minister and co-founder of The Center for Sacred Leadership.

Wynne Preston LCSW

Wynne Preston has worked in the mental health field for nearly 19 years.  She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Oregon) working as a Child and Family Therapist.  Wynne has been a long standing member of this spiritual community and has been a regular guest speaker at CSLNC for almost 4 years.  Her goal, both as a speaker and therapist, is to help others recognize and heal that which is blocking the awareness of Divine Love's presence in their lives. By opening awareness they can live their life’s purpose more fully and passionately.  Wynne believes that we all have the same purpose in this human experience, to extend love.  She also believes that there are multitudes of ways in which love is spread and that one discovers one’s own unique way of this action through developing a personal relationship with God.

Wayne Blake

Wayne Blake completed a Master's in Divinity at San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1964, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1965, serving churches in Umatilla, OR., La Grande, OR., Okanogan, WA.,  and Mill City, OR. Having become disillusioned with the pastoral ministry, he obtained a MS in counseling from Western Oregon State College and worked in the addiction field over the next twenty-seven years.  During the course of those years he became familiar with the metaphysical beliefs through attending a Unity church in Salem and later began serious study of the writings of Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science.  He has been a member of the CSLNC since its inception, has served on the Board for almost four years, was a co-founder of the Spiritual Practices Support Group, and has been a speaker since 2002.

Margaret Blake

Margaret Blake is a lifelong explorer of the body, mind, and spiritual  connection with all that Is, God the infinite creator.  She was born into an extended family of open-minded Presbyterian ministers.  She was never hindered in her exploration to know.  She started her career path as a Christian educator in a large Presbyterian church.  Her career has included non-profit program and financial development for the Girl Scouts, 4-H, and the YWCA and job development.  Her business and artistic skills were expressed  in retail sales, display and as a gallery arts coordinator.  She spent nine years exploring values and the creative process  and received a Masters of Arts in Values from San Francisco Theological Seminary.  As a volunteer she has been the founding president of Lower Columbia Hospice and Astoria Visual Arts.  She has served for twelve years on Astoria city government committees and commissions.  She has been a student of "A Course in Miracles" and new thought traditions for more than twenty five years and is currently studying a spiritual practitioner course in the Science of Mind tradition .  She has been a member of CSLNC, since its inception and served as the education coordinator and co-founder of the spiritual practices group. She has been a regular speaker at CSLNC since 2002.   She lives in a wonderful thirty-two year spiritual partnership with her husband , Wayne Blake.