REV. JOANNA THOMPSON GABRIEL  

Minister, teacher, chaplain, singer/songwriter, workshop facilitator,  

spiritual coach, storyteller, author 

An enthusiastic encourager, Rev. Joanna says that "a bell is not a bell until you ring it; a song is not a song until you sing it, and love is not love until you give it away."  Her life's work is to help people love themselves enough to sing (live) with fullness and live out of the uniqueness of their being in the choir of love and life.   

Her education includes: Associates in Business Administration from Stautzenberger College in Toledo, Ohio, Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from Lourdes College in Sylvania, Ohio, Ministerial Program, Barbara King School of Ministry, Atlanta, Georgia, and the Unity Urban Ministerial School in Detroit, Michigan.  She graduated and was ordained in 1992 from the Unity School of Practical Christianity through the Association of Unity Churches.  She has completed two years post-graduate studies in Theology at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Presently, Rev. Joanna serves as a Hospice Chaplain for Vitas Innovative Hospice Care and as a guest speaker for Unity churches in South Florida, especially with Unity of Delray Beach. 

She is member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization; the Delray Beach Interfaith Clergy Association where she serves as Secretary and was the Coordinator for the 2009 National Day of Prayer, and serves on the board of the Association of Bereavement Caregivers and Death Educators.  She leads a monthly book club at a local housing development. 

Rev. Joanna is the author of The Starpower Process:  Surviving, Thriving, Arriving and Reviving By Following Your Inner Star, a self reflective process journal to help readers get in touch with the “star” within.  She is working on a second book Your Life Is Your Song: Raising the Bar on Self Esteem.