Presbytery Staff
Executive Director - Rev. Dr. Sean Chow
Rev. Dr. Sean Chow’s most inner desire is to be a part of a God driven movement that impacts the world for God’s glory.. Currently serving as the Executive Director of the San Diego Presbytery, his aim is to prepare, equip, and sustain leaders to do the work in which God calls them He is leading the presbytery through a strategic vision to plant churches, revitalize churches, and be more missionally focused.
Prior to being the Executive Director Sean was involved in starting new expressions of the church both in practice and consulting. Sean was the Associate for 1001 New Worshiping Communities for Training and Leadership Cohorts for the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. He resourced and consulted with regional denomination bodies, churches, and church plants as they launch new creative expressions of church.
He is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University (2005), Master of Divinity from San Francisco Theological Seminary (2009) and a Doctor of Ministry at New York Theological Seminary (2022). Over the past twenty years of ministry, he has served churches in California and New Jersey. Sean is the author of “Rediscovering Vitality: A Handbook for Church Visioning and Missioning”. He is a frequent speaker to churches, committees, gatherings, and conferences.
Sean and his family live in Southern California where he can be found on a local tennis court having reconnected to an old passion.
Stated Clerk - Tony Cook
For those I haven’t met yet, I’d like to introduce myself. I’ve been a ruling elder for almost 50 years! I’m a retired lawyer, spending my first career in a variety of legal and management roles with the State of Washington. For my second career in church government I served in Olympia Presbytery (Temporary Executive and Stated Clerk) and Grand Canyon Presbytery (Interim Associate Executive and Stated Clerk). I’ve also served at the national level on the Advisory Committee on Litigation, the Presbyterian Foundation Board of Trustees, and the General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission. I’m currently serving on our Synod PJC.
I thought I had fully retired from my church career in 2015 when we moved to San Diego to be near grandchildren. A year later I became the Business Manager for our church, Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian. In 2020 I “retired” again, taking the volunteer position as church treasurer.
That’s where I was cruising along when I felt a nudge from the Holy Spirit that my Stated Clerk days might not be finished after all. I explored that with the search committee and confirmed that I was indeed being called to be the Stated Clerk for San Diego Presbytery.
Director of Innovation & Witness — Rev. Daniel So
Rev. Daniel So serves the Presbytery of San Diego as the Director of Innovation & Witness. Daniel works closely with the Innovation & Church Planting Committee of the presbytery to support New Worshiping Communities and their leaders through training, coaching, and other resources. Daniel also works to help our presbytery engage in public witness through justice, advocacy, partnership, and storytelling. Daniel supports the Borderlands Working Group, an initiative of our presbytery to reimagine our presence and impact in the San Diego borderlands region through mutuality, collaboration, and a ministry of acompañamiento.
Daniel, alongside his wife Rev. Jeya So, helped start Anchor & Hope — a New Worshiping Community in the Presbytery of San Diego. Daniel received his M.Div from Princeton Theological Seminary in 2000 and has written chapters in Faithful Innovation: Beginning a Conversation for a Post-Covid Church, Building a Garden of Churches: Ecosystems for Thriving Churches, Deconstructing Church Planting: Reimagining How We Start Churches, and The Way Bible.
Opertions Manager - Jennifer SEdgwick
Jennifer grew up in Los Angeles, CA and first came to live in San Diego to attend UCSD. While there she started attending La Jolla Presbyterian Church where she met her husband, Jim. After several more years in the Los Angeles area they returned to San Diego with their two daughters in 2012. She continues to be active at La Jolla Presbyterian playing handbells, assisting with the Sunday service AV, and going on short-term missions. Now that the girls are off on their own adventures she keeps busy kayaking, swimming, gardening, or relaxing in the window seat with a good book or her knitting. She is in the office Monday through Thursday and every other Friday.
Property Coordinator - Alicia Guajardo
Presbytery Officers
Chair of the Executive Committee, Ruling Elder Judy Enns
Judy’s professional career has been in Education and Human Resources. She established a successful HR consulting and staffing firm, HR Solutions, which conducted business nationally as a division of Eastridge Workforce Solutions. She has been influential in enhancing the role of HR in companies of all sizes, and in promoting HR careers; she also teaches an HR course at UCSD. Currently, Judy uses her professional skills to serve non-profit organizations as a board member and on governance committees for Pathways to Citizenship, Plant with Purpose, Kingdom Builder Foundation, and Ascending Leaders. She is currently Vice-Moderator for the San Diego Presbytery, sings with great joy in the SBPC choir, and co-leads a small group, a never-ending source of spiritual renewal and warm fellowship.
She holds a doctorate in Communication Theory and Research from The Ohio State University and has taught Communications at Illinois State University, California State University Los Angeles, College of the Virgin Islands, and Pasadena Nazarene College (now Point Loma Nazarene University). She was also director and ESL instructor at the Women’s English Language Center, King Faisal University in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
She and her husband, Robert, enjoy hiking, theater, good movies, reading, national parks, and world-wide travel, especially to tropical climates and warm waters, wherever they can experience God’s beautiful creation.
Presbytery Moderator, Rev. Dr Jerry Andrews
Jerry was born and raised in Detroit and has pastored churches in the Pittsburgh and Chicago areas before coming to San Diego in 2009 as Pastor of First Church Presbyterian Church downtown. Jerry has graduated from the Detroit Bible College (B.R.E.), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div.), Princeton Theological Seminary (Th. M.), the University of Pittsburgh (M.A. in Classics), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. in the Ancient Mediterranean World). Among his interests are things Biblical, theological, historical, and especially Classical. Jerry loves to teach Patristic Literature and the Reformed Faith. Jerry is unnecessarily proud of injuries from playing hockey and basketball. Jerry and his wife Lois, a former principal and assistant superintendent of schools, live in downtown San Diego and love visits with their three children and five grandchildren.