Adey Wassink, D.Miss. (she/her/hers), is the Senior Pastor of Sanctuary Community Church in Iowa City, which she started from her Iowa City living room in 1999 with her husband Tom. Adey received her B.A. in business from Northeastern Illinois University, her masters in counseling from Northeastern Illinois University, training in family systems therapy from Northwestern University, a masters in global leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a doctorate of missiology in leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. She performed her pastoring in the Vineyard denomination for 25 years before leading Sanctuary out into full inclusion in 2016.
Katie Imborek, M.D. (she/her/hers), as a lesbian woman, is an activist for queer and trans rights in Iowa, and as such has been a central figure in the queer transformation of Sanctuary, which she started attending in 2010 when it was still a church in the evangelical Vineyard denomination. Katie is a Clinical Professor and the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations in the Department of Family Medicine at University of Iowa Health Care, where she co-founded and co-directs the LGBTQ+ health clinic. Katie received her B.A. in kinesiology from DePauw University, her M.D. from the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, and completed her residency training in Family Medicine at UI Health Care.
Tom Wassink, M.D. (he/him/his), is a Staff Pastor at Sanctuary Community Church, and a Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics at UI Health Care. He received his B.A. in English literature from Northwestern University, his M.D. from the University of Illinois, residency training in psychiatry from Evanston Hospital and from the University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine, where he also completed a fellowship in psychiatric research and genetics. Tom inhabited Reformed and Evangelical church worlds before leading, with Adey, their church Sanctuary into independence and inclusion in 2016.
