Cherry Winkle Moore is a visual artist and a hospice chaplain. She has been a hospice chaplain since 2002. As an artist Cherry has extensive experience using the arts to help others express themselves. She has worked as Artist-In-Residence at a federal prison and taught art in public schools and at the college level. She is currently teaching one painting class at Blinn College in Bryan. She says there is nothing like twenty college students to balance all the good-bye in the rest of her life.
Cherry grew up in Hamilton, Ohio and attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. (B.F.A.). She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting, drawing and printmaking from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In 1996 she completed a Master of Divinity degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky with an emphasis in pastoral care. Cherry sometimes says that in her case the M.F.A. stands for Minister of Fine Arts and the M.Div. stands for Making Divine Images Visible.
Cherry has worked as a hospital chaplain at The University of Kentucky Medical Center Hospital and at CHRISTUS St. Francis Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Cherry lives in Texas. She has a son, Judson, who works in music promotion and event management. Her other son, Lew, lives in heaven. Cherry’s writings and art are often about things she has learned from family life — Bob and Judson and Lew and her Christian family.
Cherry was ordained to the gospel ministry in 2000 by Emmanuel Baptist Church in Alexandria, Louisiana and is endorsed as a hospice chaplain by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
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