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Rolland is chaplain of Church in the Forest at Robert Louis
Stevenson School in Pebble Beach,
California. A native of Scotland, Chaplain Rolland
began his ministry in Falkirk. He first came to the
Unites States in the late 1960s to complete his Master of
Divinity in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1987 he earned
his doctorate in thanotology, the study of how to assist
people who are grieving, from the University of Minnesota in
Minneapolis. During that same time period, Pastor
Rolland was also a clinical pastoral counselor at
Abbott-Northwest Hospital, and associate pastor of the
3,000-member Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis.
It was here, he says, that he found his Scottish home in
America. At Westminster, Dr. Rolland helped organize a
monthly series of town hall forums that featured, among many
others, internationally renowned figures Elie Weisel, Kurt
Waldheim, and poet Maya Angelou. In 1990, sunny
California beckoned and he accepted a position as senior
pastor and head of staff at Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian
Church in the San Francisco East Bay region. Seven
years later it was back to Scotland for continued spiritual
growth and the world of academia when he became a visiting
scholar at the University of St. Andrews. In August of
1998, he was called to accept the position of minister at
Church in the Forest. In addition to his ministry, Dr.
Rolland is a Rotarian and has served many years as Master of
Ceremonies at the Macalester College Scottish Highland Games
in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a collector of clocks
and other antiques and enjoys stamp collecting, golf,
gardening and working on his 1960 Morris Minor convertible.
He has three grown children.
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