Rev. Stephanie Warfield, M.A., BCC

Rev. Stephanie Ann Warfield is Chaplain for the Seton Cancer Care Team in Austin, Texas. She was ordained as an Interfaith Minister by ChI in July 2005, and is a Board Certified Chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains. Most of Stephanie's current work involves spiritual care and counseling to adults in an outpatient cancer clinic that serves the working poor, unfunded, underinsured and immigrant population in the Central Texas area. In addition to caring for her patients’ health concerns in a pastoral manner, answered prayer for many also includes simple hospitality, financial assistance, food, housing and clothing. Previously she worked as Family Assistance Coordinator at Ronald McDonald House Houston. All of her clinical training (ten units of CPE) was completed at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX, where she discovered her passion for creative ministry while caring for patients (those young and those young at heart), families and staff through creative worship services, the production of two newsletters called “A Chaplain’s Journal” and “Heart Murmurs”, and monthly retreats called “Chillin’ with the Chaplain”. In addition to her ChI ordination, Stephanie has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Master of Arts in Culture and Spirituality from Holy Names University in Oakland, CA. She has self-published three books: a Lenten reflection journal, a handbook on creative pastoral ministry, and a journal of interviews with a teenage cancer patient in the weeks before her death. Stephanie’s mantra: Listen softly and carry a big heart!