Interim Pastor

The Rev. Dr. Pamela Anderson has been a PC(USA) teaching elder for the last 32 years. She has served churches throughout California, New Jersey and Australia. She has been an international preacher, teacher and professor of religion for the University of Phoenix. Additionally, she is an activist and has been an organizer for the state of California with the Poor People’s Campaign. In previous years she was the Moderator of the Sacramento Presbytery, the Chair of Council, the Chair of the Pastoral Support Committee for ten years where she created, supported and led preaching conferences at Zephyr Point Presbyterian Conference Center. She is married to Marc, and they have a daughter by the name of “Charlie” and a dog named STELLA! Pamela is active with the Burning Man community, the LGBTQIA+ community in Sacramento and San Francisco and serves on the Board of Directors for More Light Presbyterians.

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Organist and Director of Music, Administration, & Engagement

San Francisco based composer, conductor, and organist Don Scott Carpenter is Organist and Director of Music, Administration, & Engagement at Lakeside Presbyterian Church. and the Founding Artistic Director of Vox Humana SF. He is the former Executive Director of the American Bach Soloists and Music Director of San Francisco Renaissance Voices. Prior to moving to the Bay Area, he was General Director of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale and Artistic/Executive Director of the Louisville Youth Choir. He has also been on the faculties of Bellarmine University and the University of Louisville, as well as a lecturer in worship at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. He has served as Principal Organist/Artist-in-Residence of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Music Director of the Temple Adath Israel B’rith Shalom and Organist/Director of Worship at Second Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky. His choirs have been heard throughout the United States and Europe including performances at the Dom in Salzburg, Votivkirche in Vienna, and Carnegie Hall in New York City. He has prepared choruses for world premiere performances of operas, prepared choruses for major works with orchestras, and for touring Broadway musicals.

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Director, Lakeside Children’s Center

Michelle Adelsheim, known as “Mrs. A” around school, has been at Lakeside Presbyterian Center for Children since August 2007, serving in various capacities until 2018 when she took on the role of the Executive Director. She is a San Francisco Bay Area native and attended public school in San Francisco and Daly City. She graduated from San Francisco State University where she studied Business Management and Child Development. In addition to her work at Lakeside, Michelle also serves as a Professional Growth Advisor to teachers in the Bay Area. In 2016, Michelle was awarded the Innovative Teacher Award by the Innovative Teacher Project and has had her students’ work displayed at the Asian Art Museum. Michelle is a practicing Catholic, and enjoys spending quality time with her husband, Michael, and their children, Noah and Haley.

Bookkeeper

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Assistant Organist

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Assistant Music Director/Director of Children’s Music

Cindy began her classroom teaching career right here at Lakeside and was quickly recruited into the music programs for children and adults. A San Francisco native, she graduated from Lowell High and SFSU (BA/Psychology, Lifetime Teaching Credential) with post-graduate training in Children’s Music from UC Santa Cruz and under a series of wonderful mentors including Jack Pereira, Jim Groves, Sandra Soderlund Bielawa, and Norma Levister. A founding member of the San Francisco chapter of Choristers’ Guild, she was also a member of the Old First Presbyterian Chamber Orchestra and the SF Children’s Opera Orchestra. In addition to participating in all of the choral and handbell programs at Lakeside Church as performer, assistant director/director, and interim Director of Music, she also developed and led children’s summer music programs at Lutheran Church of Our Savior and for the US Navy Special Services at Treasure Island (both in San Francisco) and was founding Handbell Director for Chinese Grace Church, SF. Cindy lives in Pacifica and when not busy with church and family activities enjoys restoring and collecting antique dolls and building dollhouses.