Doug Gwyn comes to First Friends from a wide experience of service among Friends.  He has worked with the American Friends Service Committee in New York; he has also pastored Friends meetings in Noblesville, Indiana and Berkeley, California.  He has taught at the Pendle Hill Quaker Study Center near Philadelphia, and most recently at Woodbrooke in Birmingham, England.  Doug has researched and written extensively on early Quakers in 17th-century England.  He also writes and sings playful songs about Quakers, baldness, the global economy, cheeseburgers, etc.   Doug's wife, Caroline Jones, has been involved with Quaker youth theatre and work camps in Britain Yearly Meeting; she works with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and other forms of counseling, spiritual direction and retreat leading.