Welcome to Emerald Valley Center for Spiritual Living!
We are a community dedicated to exploring the depths of the Science of Mind teaching, Spiritual Guidance, Spiritual Awareness, and Spiritual Healing. Whether you are a seeker, an experienced practitioner, or simply curious about expanding your spiritual horizons, this is the place to connect, learn, and grow. Join us for enlightening discussions, guided meditations, workshops, and spiritual development exercises. Let's gather as a community to create a safe, inclusive, and sacred space for spiritual exploration and personal transformation.
~Rev Lynda Lundry-Starr and Rev Donna Starr, Co-Ministers
Leadership Council
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Rev Donna Starr
She/They
Sr Co-Minister and President
Rev Donna's affiliation with CSL began in 1995, and since then, she has had the privilege of serving as a Licensed Practitioner since 2012 and a Licensed Minister since 2022. Rev Donna has been a dedicated spiritual student throughout her life, exploring and participating in various spiritual practices and cultures. During her practitioner training, she felt a strong calling to create a spiritual center and is thrilled to have co-founded Emerald Valley with her wife and co-minister, Rev. Lynda Lundry-Starr. Rev Donna resides in Eugene with her wife, mother-in-law, cats Jack and Grace, and their turtle-guru, Rishloo.
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Rev Lynda Lundry-Starr
She/They
Sr Co-Minister and Secretary
Rev Lynda's affiliation with CSL began in 2007 with the Center for Spiritual Living in San Jose, CA. She has served as a Licensed Practitioner since 2013 and a Licensed Minister since 2022. Rev Lynda is an accomplished facilitator and musician, and loves living in Eugene! She is delighted to be in a co-ministry while serving a community-led spiritual center for spiritual seekers to call Home.
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Rev Kathy Scharmer
She/Her
Vice President
Rev Kathy is a staff minister at the Lighthouse Center for Spiritual Living in Livermore CA where she holds the role as the Education Director. Before retiring in 2023, Kathy spent 40 years in the corporate sector working as a project manager and corporate trainer. Kathy is married to John Scharmer and is proud to spend time with her 7 adult grandchildren and the associated dogs and cats that are always in the house.
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Cathy Gucker
She/Her
Treasurer
Cathy Gucker has been involved with Centers for Spiritual Living since moving from Ketchikan, Alaska to Eugene in 2016. Prior to that she spent many years traveling the North American continent in a thirteen passenger van leading adventure camping and hiking tours. She has worked the rest of her life (before & after) mostly in the insurance business. She currently lives with her wife Cheryl and their two dogs. Her son Gabriel is living and studying in Eugene and her daughter Sarah along with her partner Sanjay and their son Ijah, live on the Big Island of Hawaii owning and running a small Jamaican restaurant in Waimea. Cathy loves crafting and using her creativity to share her joy with others.
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Rev Carole Van Orden
Council Member
Rev Carole has been on a spiritual journey of discovery her whole life, which has led her to many places. She attended the Church of Divine Man in Everett WA, and was ordained in 1991. While there she learned Meditation and running Energy. From 1996 to 1999 Rev Carole served on the board of the Unity Church in Lynnwood, WA. While there she took more classes and taught a meditation class. Since 1993 Rev Carole has been a member of the Seattle Chapter of the International Association of Near Death Studies. The stories told at these meetings are all about Spirit and Growth. She looks forward to having many more adventures with EVCSL and sharing her experiences.
Practitioners
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Maggie Covarrubius, RScP
She/Her
Lead Practitioner
Maggie recently relocated to Rochester, Minnesota but still serves as a practitioner to the leadership team and the Emerald Valley community. She has worked in Human Resources for most of her career, currently as an HR Director. Maggie has been married to Julio Covarrubias for 34 years and has two adult children, Noelle and Julio Roberto as well as a sweet rescue dog, Eddie.
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Shelley Dill
She/Her
Shelley Dill is a licensed Science of Mind Practitioner, serving on the Virtual Online Practitioner Program through CSL Home Office. Shelley has served as an online host for zoom prayer rooms for several years now. Shelley’s focus ministry of Self-Care was revealed in 2004. Since then, she has been leading playshops and given talks on the Art of Joyful Self-Care, sharing the Buddhist precept, “Self-Care is the path to Peace on Earth”, that is the lodestone of her ministry. A lifelong musician, Shelley has known all along that her ministry be rooted in music as the ministry, and the ministry as music. As a spiritual dowser, Shelley believes in the transformative power of recognizing the Inherent Light of everyone, and bringing that light within All to the surface.
Shelley is continuing her education to become a licensed Minister, expanding the bandwidth of who she is able to serve. -
Ron Trunnell
He/Him
Ron Trunnell has been a student of the Science of Mind for over 25 years, a licensed practitioner since 2014 and will graduate from the School of Spiritual Leadership as Minister in June 2025. Ron's favorite phrase is "Let it Be" by the Beatles. These three words are key to creating the life we seek to experience. Ron finds great joy and satisfaction in being of service to the 12-Step and LGBTQ+ communities he belongs to and sharing the message of Oneness. Ron is married to his incredible husband, Ken Casey, and returned to the PNW in 2016 to the neighborhood he grew up in. Spirit always handles the details in a way far more powerful than we could have ourselves! Peace and Love are present, right here. Let It Be.