United Campus Ministries

July 2010

Meet CHERYL BROCKMAN, our new UNITED CAMPUS MINISTER

I am a new arrival in Corpus Christi, having moved here in January from San Antonio with my husband, Clayton, and 21-year-old daughter, Dakota, who is a student at Del Mar College. Clayton has just finished the Certified Lay Pastor course in the Presbyterian Church USA, and is supply preaching while awaiting commissioning to a charge, so we are usually in a different church every Sunday. Corpus Christi feels very much like home, however, as I was born on the island of Aruba, where my father was one of the Chief Engineers working at the Standard Oil Refinery. We moved to Texas when I was five, and I’ve been here ever since.

I grew up in Weatherford, which is in north central Texas, and attended college in Fort Worth at Texas Wesleyan University, where I graduated with a B.S. in Applied Psychology. Since then, I’ve worked primarily in the Social Services field, but always had a second job at a local church as Youth Director or helping with a youth program in the area. For almost 15 years, Clayton and I served as Houseparents at Presbyterian Children’s Homes in San Antonio, raising 116 teenage girls during our tenure there.   I currently serve as the Chairperson of the Youth Connections Division of Mission Presbytery, where we plan and put on four Mid-Winter retreats at Mo-Ranch each January and a large retreat at John Knox Ranch in September called Main Event for Youth.   In addition, I was privileged to lead a CORE group at Trinity University for 3 years through the University Ministries program at First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio.