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St. Dunstan's welcomes a new Priest in Charge, The Rev. Kenneth R. Bullock!
The Rev. Kenneth R. Bullock grew up on a farm in North Dakota. He graduated from Seabury-Western Theological
Seminary in Evanston, Illinois in 1970. Following ordination to the priesthood he served parishes in Illinois,
Colorado, and Wisconsin. Ken received a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
in 1984. From 1984 to 2000 he worked as a clinical social worker in Wisconsin, Texas, and Minnesota in a variety
of settings, including a runaway shelter program for adolescents, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, and outpatient
mental health clinics, while also serving parishes as a supply priest. He holds licenses as a social worker in
Pennsylvania, and as an independent clinical social worker in Minnesota.
After moving to the Philadelphia area in 2000, Ken served as a supply priest in the Diocese of Pennsylvania
for a year and a half. He was then called as Priest in Charge at St. Aidan's, Cheltenham, where he served
until June, 2005. During that time he was also director and pastoral counselor at Northeast Pastoral Counseling
in northeast Philadelphia. From September 2005 through August 2007 he was Interim Rector of Grace Epiphany Church,
Mt. Airy.
Kenneth's wife, Kathryn, was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Colorado. She has a Ph.D. in electrochemistry,
nd has worked for many years in battery research. Upon coming to the Philadelphia area, she was chief technology
officer at C & D Technologies, a battery company based in Blue Bell, and she now operates her own consulting
business, Coolahm.
Ken and Kathryn have two children. Their daughter Kerry has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Georgia Tech
in Atlanta, and recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Environmental Protection Agency in North
Carolina. Her husband, Ibrahim, a fellow chemical engineer she met at Georgia Tech, is from Turkey.
Their son Kevin graduated from Minnesota State University at Mankato in 2004 with a degree in computer science,
and is employed at the University of Minnesota. In May, 2007, he married Janell, who is an artist.
When not involved in ministry, Ken enjoys reading, hiking in the mountains, canoeing, and folk singing.
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