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about
us The Virginia Shepherd’s Staff, Inc., a
nonprofit organization incorporated in the Commonwealth
of Virginia, is the successor organization to The
Shepherd's Staff, Inc., the founding organization
incorporated in the state of Florida in 2000, but moved
to the state of Virginia in 2003. We are granted
tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service as a
501(c) 3, and are supported entirely by the pledged
contributions and goodwill offerings of others to meet
operating expenses. All contributions are tax-deductible.
We are committed to providing opportunity for people to
receive the restoring touch of the Great Shepherd,
regardless of ability to financially contribute. Our
desire is to depend on the love offerings people give as
a "Thank You" to God for ways they are touched
through our ministry.
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The
Reverend Ann B. Davis, Executive Director Ordained
deacon in 1988 after graduating from The School
of Theology at Sewanee and ordained priest in
1989, Ann served an Episcopal parish in South
Carolina for eleven years. It was there in the
crucible of lived experience that the vision for
The Shepherd's Staff, which she incorporated in
2000 in Florida with the help of others, began to
take shape in her heart. The contemplative
grounding during her years she spent as an Oblate
in the Order of Julian of Norwich, coupled with
more than a decade and a half of study and
experience in facilitating the healing of the
inner person as a priest, have molded a unique
blend in her for the care of the soul. She is an
experienced retreat leader and spiritual director
and is a graduate of the Shalem Institute for
Spiritual Formation in Bethesda, Maryland,
completing their program for leaders of spiritual
formation groups. She is the mother of three
grown children and grandmother of three. Ann is
the rector of a rural Episcopal parish in Central
Virginia.
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