Paul Capetz is a native of southern California, having been raised in the Glendora United Methodist Church.  He is a graduate of U.C.L.A., Yale Divinity School, and the University of Chicago Divinity School.  He has worked as a parish minister, a youth director, a college chaplain, and a hospital chaplain, as well as a seminary and college professor.  After three decades of living elsewhere (in Connecticut, Illinois, Virginia, Minnesota, and Texas) he is happy to return to to his home in California and to serve as a minister in the Calfornia-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.