Experience

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  DIOCESE OF WESTERN ANGLICANS

  • United States

  • Canon for Clergy Formation

    • Feb 2023 - Present
    • United States

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  Beth Messiah Anglican Congregation

  • La Habra, California

  • Founding Pastor

    • Jan 2017 - Present
    • La Habra, California

    The vision of Beth Messiah Anglican Congregation is to be a place where Jews who believe Yeshua is the Messiah and Gentile believers in Yeshua worship together using an Anglican liturgy that has been contextualized to the Jewish community.

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  Artists in Christian Testimony Intl

  • Minister

    • May 2012 - Present

    The Rev. Dr. Joyce Miriam Brooks is an Anglican priest and Founding Pastor of Beth Messiah Anglican Congregation, where Jewish and Gentile believers in Yeshua the Messiah can worship together while embracing the Jewish roots of the Gospel. She is a priest in the Anglican Church of North America and a Messianic Jew. She has a Ph.D. in Educational Studies with an emphasis in Leadership which she uses to serve the Church and the marketplace through ministry among the business community of La Habra, CA.Her affiliation as a minister with A.C.T. Intl enables Joyce to do the innovative ministry of planting a Messianic Anglican congregation and providing pastoral care to the business community.

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  Uganda Christian University Partners

  • Board Member

    • Jan 2009 - Jan 2021

    Uganda Christian University Partners raises funds to assist Uganda Christian University, a Centre of Excellence in the Heart of Africa. As a Uganda Partners board member, I currently chair the development committee and am serving on the strategic planning committee.

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  St. James Anglican Church

  • Assisting Priest

    • Jan 2012 - Dec 2016

    In addition to serving the business community in La Habra, CA, I have the privilege of serving God and His Church as an assisting priest at St. James Anglican Church in Newport Beach, CA. I assist with the sacramental, preaching, teaching and pastoral ministry of the church, and I have a special passion to provide pastoral care and healing ministry to women who have been victims of sexual abuse.

  • Deacon

    • Jun 2010 - Jan 2012

    I had the honor of serving the parishioners and clergy of St. James as deacon: serving on the altar, preaching, teaching, assisting with nursing home ministry and home communions, and conducting healing prayer ministry sessions.

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  Joyce Miriam Brooks, Ph.D.

  • Organizational Development Consultant, & Executive Coach

    • Jan 2010 - Dec 2016

    My mission is to equip business and nonprofit executives to flourish in the workplace, with special intention to serve those in the Greater La Habra, CA area. I offer training workshops, organizational development consulting, and executive coaching; my affiliation as a minister with Artists in Christian Testimony Intl allows me to offer these services at a discounted rate to those in the La Habra area. I am also a pastor (presbyter) in the Anglican Church in North America and currently serving as an assisting priest at St. James Anglican Church in Newport Beach, CA. I have served as a leader and administrator in the nonprofit community since 1983, and I have a Ph.D. in Educational Studies with an emphasis in leadership. I provide personalized counsel in a variety of areas that impact workflow such as leadership, vision-casting, strategic planning, team effectiveness, organizational assessment, change management, customer service skills.

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  Biola University

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director of Foundations and Major Gift Operations

    • 2005 - 2009

    Serve as leader to as staff of 14. Responsible for all foundation fundraising. Directed the implementation of the Raiser’s Edge Fundraising Software, 2006 - 2008. Continued responsibilities included major donor research and cultivation management, gift processing, records and database management, endowed scholarship fundraising, women’s fundraising, special fundraising projects, and personal donor assignments. Chaired major gift committee (June 2005– June 2008). Member, work teams: Capital Campaigns, Annual Fund, Fundraising Events, Corporate Relations (July 2008 – 2009). Managed president’s major donor contacts.

  • Director of Development Services & The Biola Scholarship Fund

    • 2000 - 2005

    Through my leadership, the Annual Fund was renamed the Biola Scholarship Fund to more accurately describe how gifts are used. Responsibility for the President’s Circle was added in 2002. Directed the public phase of a gym expansion capital campaign, fall of 2004. Continued to be responsible for direct mail and phonathon fundraising, major donor research and cultivation management, gift processing, records and database management, endowed scholarship fundraising, women’s fundraising, special fundraising projects, and personal donor assignments, and service on the campaign strategy committee. Serve as leader to a staff of 12.

  • Director of Development Services & The Annual Fund

    • 1999 - 2000

    Responsible for direct mail and phonathon fundraising and the public phase of the library building campaign. Member, CONNECTIONS magazine editorial board. Continued to be responsible for major donor research and cultivation management, gift processing, records and database management, endowed scholarship fundraising, women’s fundraising, special fundraising projects, and personal donor assignments, and service on the campaign strategy committee. Serve as leader to a staff of 10.

  • Director of Development Services

    • 1991 - 1999

    Responsible for major donor research and cultivation management, gift processing, records and database management, endowed scholarship fundraising, women’s fundraising, special fundraising projects, and personal donor assignments. Member, campaign strategy committee. Serve as leader to a staff of 9.

  • Director of Prospect Research

    • 1989 - 1991

    Identified prospective major donors, researched background information regarding interest and ability to give, tracked major gift cultivation progress.

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  Wheaton College

  • Major Donor Research Coordinator

    • 1985 - 1988

    Identified prospective major donors, researched background information regarding interest and ability to give, tracked major gift cultivation progress.

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  Greater Europe Mission

  • Receipting Supervisor

    • 1983 - 1985

    Managed gift processing, maintained gift and address records.