REV. JOHN SUNBURN

1981-1986

The Rev. Sunburn came to St. Andrews in June 1q81 and was installed on November 1 after transferring from the fairlane West United Church of Christ in Akron, Ohio. During his pas­torate St. Andrews celebrated one-hundred years since the first church was built and members formally organized as well as the burning of the mortgage on the second church.

He was a graduate of Duke University, the Minnesota School_ of Economics and was ordained at the Hartford Seminary founda­tion. He also was a graduate of the Air War College , W. S.

Air Force. As a 1st. Kt. he served as a chaplain. After twenty-three years as a reserve chaplain he retired from the air force. Serving throughout the country, he had worked at a state hospital in Connecticut, a prison in Alabama, a military prison for alcoholics and drug abusers.

His wife Carolyn was the daughter of a Lutheran minister who served in the Orient. She grew up in China and was a high school graduate from an American Mission High School in Korea. They had three daughters.