A pastor at the Chestnut Hill United Church in Philadelphia (a United Methodist and United Church of Christ congregation), Rev. Noonan has spent the last 22 years of ministry between South Africa and the United States. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, Rev. Noonan’s work in South Africa has included teaching feminist theology at the University of Durban-Westville, serving as a chaplain and teacher in a girls’ school and doing crisis-response work during a period of violent conflict in the country.  

 

In the United States, she has served in urban congregations in Chicago, worked as a hospice and pediatric hospital chaplain, co-led church delegations to Southern Africa and Chiapas, Mexico, and was editor and coordinator of a Lutheran advocacy project on Southern Africa. 

 

Union Chapel is a non-denominational church located at the intersection of Circuit, Kennebec and Narragansett avenues.