Reverend Lisa Hall Anderson is a former chaplain at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and is the founding executive director of Room in the Inn-Memphis and pastor of Colonial Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
After receiving her MDiv from Memphis Theological Seminary, Rev. Anderson completed Clinical Pastoral Education at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Memphis. Rev. Anderson served as Vice President of the Tennessee Chaplains Association and President of the Pediatric Chaplains Network. As director of Room in the Inn-Memphis, she has been involved in advocacy in Memphis and Shelby County for those experiencing homelessness. Under her leadership, the first recuperative care center for medically fragile homeless individuals in the Mid-South was opened this year.
“My education at MTS provided me with a biblically-based opportunity to think theologically about the world. The knowledge and spiritual formation prepared me for being a chaplain and a parish pastor. But it was the way the seminary community put that education into practice that informs the work I do today. MTS taught me to take the truth of the scriptures into the world where I live, seeing Christ in all of those I meet. I have had the privilege to be chaplain, pastor, and advocate because of my seminary education and I’m thankful.”
Learn more about Rev. Anderson’s work here.
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