Board of Directors
Tacheria Interfaith Spirituality and Spiritual Direction
Meet the Board of Directors
Chair of the Board of Directors
Anndrea Terry MA
Anndrea is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a Master’s degree in Community Counseling and a postgraduate specialization in Wellness Counseling from Oakland University. She is also a trained yoga teacher, meditation instructor, breathwork facilitator, along with multiple certifications in ecotherapy.
She has worked for a non‑profit crisis center, private practice and has led multiple retreats focused on wellbeing in Northern Michigan and Arizona. Her professional background combines therapy, leadership, creativity and program development with a deep commitment to accessible, inclusive care.
Her interests and studies center on spiritual direction, eco‑spirituality, and myth‑informed guidance, where she integrates contemplative practices with nature‑based wisdom. She is dedicated to practicing curiosity and establishing ways of being in the world informed by nature’s rhythms of rest, growth, and balance. Anndrea’s vision is to support individuals and communities in cultivating resilience, meaning, and soulful connection.
Originally from Michigan, Anndrea has made her home in Arizona since 2016. She is a 2026 Tacheria Graduate.
Co-Chair of the Board of Directors/ Former Interim Chair of the Board of Directors
Ken Vorndran, Ph.D.
Over the course of forty years, he taught in three high schools, two community colleges, and one university. He retired from Pima Community College, where he spent the last fifteen years of his career as the honors coordinator for the college and teaching the honors research and honors writing courses.
Ken represented Pima on the Arizona State Honors Council, for which he was also chair, as well as on the Western Regional Honors Council and the Arizona English Articulation Taskforce. While at Pima, he served as lead faculty and department chair, and he was also an active member of PCCEA, where he served as a campus rep and om the meet - and - confer team. Prior to running the honors program at Pima, Ken taught writing, creative writing, and literature.
His essays, stories, and poems have been published in various newspapers, magazines, and literacy magazines. He received his BA from the University of Delaware and his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.
Ken graduated from Tacheria in 2021.
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Secretary & Special Events
Cathy Stafford, Ed.D.
Cathy spent over 35 years in the education profession as a teacher, reading specialist, university professor, and public school administrator. In 2012, after serving in Avondale Elementary School District for 20 years, she retired as Superintendent.
Cathy is a 2013 graduate of Tacheria Interfaith School of Spiritual direction where the Spirit stirred the creative longing of remembering being a teacher. With the support of the Tacheria Interfaith Spirituality Center Board in 2014, Cathy became the Director of Wisdom's Way Interfaith School in Phoenix as a 'sister' spiritual direction school.
Cathy's husband, Gil Stafford Ph.D, D.Min, has been her partner in this pilgrimage. Cathy retired from Wisdom's Way in June 2022 and became a Board Member working especially on Tacheria's special events and workshops.
Cathy is a seeker of Wisdom (Sophia) and a pilgrim of compassionate presence. Her passions are her holy grandboys who are her best teachers, spiritual companioning, The Circle way, and being open to the Divine in her journey of growing and learning.
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Director of Tacheria Interfaith Spiritual Direction School
Betty Stauffer
Betty graduated from Tacheria School for Spiritual Direction in 2004.
She was first introduced to spiritual direction through the Church of the Savior in Washington D.C. in 1985. She has been in spiritual direction herself and served as a spiritual director and retreat leader since that time.
Betty is a former Elder in the Presbyterian Church USA and was very active in their Hunger Ministries.
She is a social worker who has served as an Executive Director, first of New Life Community in Cleveland, Ohio from 2002 to 2020 at Literacy Connects in Tucson, AZ.
Betty became a Co-Director of Tacheria with Frank Williams in 2018.
She became Director in 2021.
Provisional Director of Tacheria Interfaith Spiritual Direction School
Reverend Deborah Christine
Deborah was born in Colorado and raised in Tempe, AZ, where her father taught at ASU. She earned degrees in Education from ASU and the University of Arizona and spent many years teaching in Phoenix and Tucson.
After raising twins, she followed her call to ministry, completing her Master of Divinity in Denver. She went on to serve churches in Colorado and Montana, eventually becoming the District Superintendent of Montana East, overseeing 40 congregations.
Deborah returned to Tucson in 2021 and later completed the Tacheria Spiritual Direction program (Class of 2024). She currently serves as the Associate Pastor of Discipleship at St. Mark’s UMC.
Grounded in an inclusive and compassionate faith, Deborah is committed to helping the Divine be known through community, service, and spiritual formation.
She became Tacheria’s Provisional Director in 2026.
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Treasurer
Chuck Kirchner
Chuck is a 2021 graduate of Tacheria, has held a life-long yearning for the spiritual in our lives, especially our creative lives.
An accomplished photographer and photo educator, Chuck has led workshops on photo creativity and it's spiritual components at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico and the Grunewald Guild in eastern Washington state.
While an interesting career in environemntal and transportation planning provided a steady source of income over the years, the passion for traveling the world to see first-hand the realm of cultures, rituals and spirit ceased; nor the desire to create photographs of the journeys.
He grew up in a traditional Roman Catholic family and over the years, transitioned to the Episcopal tradition, currently a member of St. Phillips in the Hills in Tucson. He has had, and continues to have, a fascination with religions and rituals world-wide, and finds kernels of truth in all of them. After living in the Puget Sound area most of his life, he and his wife and daughter relocated to the Sonoran desert over three years ago and finds the Spirit alive and well in the open spaces of the desert as he did in the open spaces of the ocean.
Board Member/ Former Chair of the Board & Co-Director/Director of Tacheria School
Frank R. Williams
Frank retired in 2017 as the Social Services Director at Casa de la Luz Hospice. Previous to his service with hospice he was in several positions, including Executive Director of Family Counseling Agency (now Our Family Services) and before that served twenty years on the Family Studies faculty at the University of Arizona.
He is a United Methodist minister and served churches in California and Arizona, and was founding pastor of St. Francis in the Foothills UMC.
He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona, his Masters of Sacred Theology from Boston University School of Theology and his Doctorate from Boston University.
He served for 20 years with his wife Linda, as Co-Directors of Tacheria.
Board Member
Reverend Mike Wilkerson
Rev. Mike Wilkerson was born in Ocala, Florida and moved around while growing up, mostly in the southeast part of the country.
Upon graduation from high school, he enlisted in the Navy, attended the University of Florida through an ROTC scholarship, then served as an officer in submarines. After thirteen years of military service, Mike left the Navy, got a master's degree, and then moved to the Phoenix area where he worked as a computer design engineer at Intel Corporation for twenty years. After serving in various roles at Song of Life UMC in Queeen Creek, Arizona, Rev. Mike discerned a call to serve as an ordained elder in the United Methodist tradition.
In 2018, he attended Garrett - Evangelical Theological Seminary for three years, serving in Yuma, AZ. Mike met his wife Brooke, and they were married in September of 2022.
Mike is very grateful for the opportunity to serve now at St. Francis in the Foothills, Tucson, together with his wife and stepson. In his spare time, Mike enjoys racquetball, hiking, and playing board games.
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Board Member
The Rev. Philip Shaw
Rev. Philip Shaw served at St. Luke's Episcopal Interim Rector from February of 2022 - 2023 has returned serving St. Luke's Episcopal, Prescott, as Assisting Priest.
Board Member
Mary Quihuis
Mary spent her career as an accountant and project manager at the Community Development Department at the City of Glendale, Arizona. But her life work really seemed to be centered around advocacy for others. A large part of her life was spent caring for and advocating for her son who was born with severe cerebral palsy and required total care.
Mary found that exposing her son to as many programs as possible would be instrumental to his well-being. Eventually her son excelled at a specialized art program through Arts for All. Mary was a frequent volunteer and advocate for the Arts for All program. She is also currently a volunteer for ALS Arizona and a former Hospice volunteer. In addition, Mary is a former prayer chaplain at both Unity of Phoenix and Unity of Tucson.
Mary was introduced to the idea of attending Tacheria Interfaith School of Spiritual Direction through Frank Williams, and in 2020 Mary became a graduate of Tacheria. The process of learning Holy Listening and Spiritual Companionship was so meaningful to Mary that in 2023 she became a member of the Board of Tacheria as well.
Mary is a constant supporter and volunteer for the many classes and programs offered through Tacheria. Mary’s advocacy and spiritual companionship skills continue to shine as she serves on the Tacheria Board.