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| About the President and Founder:
Over the years Rev. Dudley has been in many types of unusual ministry situations, in many parts of the world. She has traveled and taught in Taiwan, Korea, and several other Far East countries, assisted Wycliffe translators in two Colombian tribes in the Amazon jungle, worked in a refugee camp and orphanage in Guatemala, been involved in local church ministry, served as an assistant pastor in two Korean American churches, been a nursing home and assisted living chaplain, served as a chaplain for Tacoma Police Department, has been the only chaplain serving the Washington State Patrol, at District I in Tacoma, Washington since 1977, and until recently was the only female police chaplain in Pierce County. In 1999, she returned to the seminary that she had previously attended and became a professor and the Director of the Chaplaincy Program. She later took the position of Registar and assumed most of the daily operation duties of the seminary. Under her leadership it grew from a small seminary to one of moderate size, with an active student body and faculty. |
 In the summer of 2000, Rev. Dudley and her husband started a nonprofit organization, L.R. Eskew Renewed Life Training Center, "to provide training, chaplaincy, advocacy, and victim assistance to those needing those types of services." In November of 2002, the name was changed to Renewed Life Training Institute. In February of 2003, Rev. Dudley officially opened Renewed Life Training Institute, Seminary and Pastoral Counseling Services in Lakewood, Washington. Rev. Dudley is also very active in the business community of Lakewood . She is one of the past presidents of the Ambassador's Club for the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce; the president of the Business Women's Network and has been an active member of three local nonprofit boards. On December 2, 2005 , a fire destroyed the building that had housed the ministries of Renewed Life Training Institute and Seminary. Rev. Dudley endeavored to rebuild with the help of the Lord and continue in the plans and purposes that God had called her to. Rev. Dudley returned to the classroom herself in the summer of 2007 when she began attending Clinical Pastoral Educations classes at St. Joseph Hospital in Tacoma, WA and subsequently began a Hospice Residency in the fall of 2007 that lasted one year. Rev. Marie Dudley was officially ordained to the ministry in 1992 and lives in Tacoma, Washington with her husband of thirty-two years, Reverend Will Dudley who is somewhat active in the ministry, even though he "officially" retired in 1998.
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