Rev. Elwood J. McDowell

Rev. McDowell holds a B.A. degree in philosophy from Divine Word College in Iowa and an M.A. in philosophy from the University of New Mexico. He did further graduate study in philosophy and religious studies at the University of Oklahoma. He holds an M.A. degree in Clinical Psychology from Fielding Graduate University. He has done further graduate study in Jungian psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. He has taught as an adjunct at the University of New Mexico, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Arizona in the field of Religious Studies. He was a Core Trainer at the National Drug Education Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in the early 1970s after working for Bernalillo County Mental Health Center running an adolescent drug abuse center in Albuquerque. The National Drug Education Center was a national training center for drug counselors established by the National Institute of Mental Health. He was chosen to be on a panel at Oxford University in England called the Oxford Round Table and has worked for Southwest Behavioral Health in Phoenix as a mental health counselor. He is pastor of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in Tucson and served as co-chair of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance Community Action Team for several years. Rev. McDowell hails from Vicksburg, Mississippi. He is married to Shirley J. McDowell and the father of five children and seven grandchildren.