​Windy is more passionate about public ministry among Friends than anyone I know. This passion is not idealistic; it comes from a deep sense of calling and commitment that has endured many challenges. Her combination of prophetic spirit and thorough research is a gift to the Society of Friends. I enjoyed collaborating with Windy on a series about public ministry. Her invitation to co-facilitate the series encouraged me to dive more deeply into the common challenges and opportunities between programmed and unprogrammed Friends. Many people will benefit from her continued research, resource-creation, nurture, and ministry incubation.
-- Andy Stanton-Henry, Quaker Leadership Center
 

As someone who has served Quaker organizations in staff roles, while also carrying a ministry among Friends, the support Windy offers is both clarifying and deeply caring. She is a gifted listener who has offered me a place to reflect on possible models for serving Friends when my ministry doesn’t “fit neatly” into some of the ways we view public ministry. There are so many intersections (of people, ideas, groups) in our Quaker world, and in many of them we find the question of balancing tradition and innovation. A public ministry incubator would create, with intention, a container to hold the kind of support and resources that nurture Friends who are seeking to follow leadings and serve in ministry. A “container” does not need to be solid or constrictive, but helps to give a shape to what it holds; many of my conversations with Windy have explored the porous possibilities for shaping ministry that is both listening for Spirit and moving in ways needed today.
-- Melinda Wenner Bradley, Faith & Play Stories

Windy (she/her) is a long-time Quaker public minister with an embraced ministry of right relationship. In her 2019 minute of embrace by Sandy Spring the meeting says that “Windy brings the gifts of love, energy, experience, relationship building, moral courage, introspection, hearing, communicating and administering to this work.” And in 2024 the meeting affirmed in a general travel minute that “Windy’s ministry with Friends is part of a larger call to right relationship in the world, a call that is provided by and informed by the Spirit” and that “We trust that you will experience Windy’s gifts of love, wisdom, moral courage and relationship building as you engage with Windy.”
 

Windy has traveled, researched, written, taught and eldered full-time in the ministry since 2018 after being called to ministry in 2013. Much of her ministry work has been in discernment practices for times of community crisis; she is the co-author of the Coming Together for Continuing Revelation discernment practice which has been productively used in both America and Europe since 2021. She is the past convener of the Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse project. 
 

She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Earlham School of Religion and a recent Doctor of Ministry degree from Lancaster Theological Seminary -- earned, in part, through her completion of research into public ministry practices amongst Friends entitled The War For and Against Quakers: Right Relationship and Public Ministry in the Religious Society of Friends.
 

This summer Windy is traveling to ten yearly meetings in the United States carrying a workshop and message on how meetings can fully embrace the ministry of all. She is currently co-authoring a book for a general audience on what the church can learn from the strength and testimony of Quaker public ministry, tentatively scheduled for publication in 2027.