Board president
Rev. Sheri Springer
Rev. Sheri was elected by her fellow Board Members to serve as President of the FL ADL Board. Doing so, she contributes her exceptional business and organizational skills, along with the visions and guidance gifted by the White Brotherhood of Light. She is an Inspirational Leader.
Sheri was guided to ADL by the Brotherhood in 1997, after she had been channeling their spiritual guidance for a decade. In the beginning, working full time as co-owner of a community association management company, she was wearing two “hats” and only dipping into the ADL world for annual gatherings.
After retirement, Sheri sponsored a weekly group of women interested in sharing challenges, spiritual wisdom and making soul connections through channeling.
Vice President
Rev. Tiya Keyze
Rev. Tiya has been studying the spiritual / transcending arts for over twenty years and became an ordained minister in 2006. She enjoys serving the community through festivals, fundraising, classes and more.
Tiya co- founded Playful Roots Yoga Ministry to provide services for families and young people with expanding mindsets.
By combining her dedication to personal growth with a drive to uplift others, Tiya presents an authentic offering of her own experiences with the goal of helping others.
Read more about Tiya on the Mentor page!
TRUSTEE
Rev Lynda Allen
Rev Lynda recently joined our Florida Board. She was "enticed" to actively participate by our Shining Our Light Project and the mission of community-building. Rev Lynda's broad background is such an asset to our ministry and Board. Lynda's training and career as an educator for exceptional students branched over the years through service to non-profit missions to include consulting in the areas of public relations, marketing, project and special event planning, fundraising/grant writing and program development for nonprofits, and even some profit businesses. She currently serves as online community builder for a world renowned spiritual growth speaker/educator.
We are thrilled that Rev Lynda has agreed to Chair our Shining Our Light Project Committee to reinvigorate the program following the great "Pandemic Sleep." She has dubbed the mission as supporting our ADL ministers in "Re-Membering" the passion and purpose of their ministries.
TRUSTEE
Rev. Lindsay Babich
Rev. Lindsay has served on the Florida Board of Trustees on and off since 2005 holding various offices, including Secretary, Vice President and President. She is Chair of the Communications Committee, facilitating email, web and social media communications for the Florida Chapter.
Over the years, she was instrumental in updating the Board’s Bylaws, facilitating elections and crafting Policies and Procedures.
A resident of West Palm Beach, she is also an ADL Mentor and active on the Communications Action Team for the National Board of the Alliance of Divine Love.
Read more about Lindsay on the Mentor page!
TRUSTEE
Rev. Dr. Bonnie Barnes-Kelly
Rev. Dr. Bonnie was ordained in 2004 and earned her Doctorate in Divinity through ADL in 2012.
Bonnie has served on the Florida ADL Board since 2013, first as Secretary, then Vice-President, and currently as President for the past 3 years.
In the ‘80s, Bonnie served as Secretary for Omnicon, Inc., a science fiction/fact organization that produced numerous, large conventions in the South Florida area. Bonnie also produced the organization’s fanzine, an opportunity for fans to publish their art and stories. Her bookstore hosted small, one day science fiction/comic book conventions, featuring original art by attendees.
Bonnie established and served as President of “Friends of the Oleta River.” In addition, she was a member of Friends of the Everglades, the Sierra Club and the Florida Coalition, serving on several committees as an activist to preserve and protect the local environment.
Read more about Bonnie’s achievements on the Mentor page!
TRUSTEE
Rev. Bill Boynton
Bill has been an ADL minister since 1999. Serving on the Board since 2017, he supports the Chapter, the Board and the Florida ministers by helping to facilitate various projects.
As a creative and organized person, Bill is a “get it done” kind of guy who works well on teams or independently. He has enjoyed deepening his relationship with the Florida ADL ministers during his time on the Board.
His life-long passions are communications and being an amateur radio operator. As a result, he has years of extensive work that utilized his engineering, communications and radio skills. This included 15 years as a Program Consultant for IBM.
TRUSTEE
Rev. Linda DeFelice
Rev. Linda has lived in South Florida for 52 years and has always felt drawn to a path of spiritual growth. On February of 2015, she was Ordained with ADL; in that year, she became a Reiki Level-II practitioner.
In 2017, Linda began to serve as a FL ADL Board member. By 2018, she became an ADL Mentor.
During 2017, Linda was voted Membership Committee Chairperson. Linda has planned and hosted social "Tea Party" fellowship gatherings pre-pandemic and is making new plans to create community events for local ADL ministers this year.
Most importantly, you may hear from Linda by phone or email, as she is communicating the “Welcomes” and assisting with upcoming ADL events, local and statewide.
Read more about Linda on the Mentor page!
TRUSTEE
Rev. Carole Poletick
Rev. Carole currently serves as a Trustee on the Florida Board. In 2020, she served as a Board Alternate.
Ordained in 2019, Carole jumped right in to assist and learn as much as possible about the Board’s mission and practices supporting the Florida Chapter’s members statewide. Known as “Cosmic Carole” she is always ready to serve.
Carole is Chair of the Florida ADL Social Hour, a project of the Shining Our Light Committee. Her own “White Dove Healing,” an affiliate of the Alliance of Divine Love, Inc., has kept her Light shining with the ideals of ADL during these pandemic years, facilitating long distance care as a Minister and Lightworker.
ALTERNATE
Rev. Dr. Constance Johnson
“DrJ” has had careers as a university librarian, lawyer, web designer and co-owner of an internet company. She is also an author, artist, spiritual healer, past-life regressionist, clinical hypnotist, and teacher. Her primary service is as a channeler which she does under the title, “A Voice for Spirit.”
DrJ has served on many boards for charitable, educational, and religious organizations. She held the position of Secretary for Unity of Middle Georgia.
She also was the Treasurer, then President of the Mercer University Chapter of the American Association of University Women. In addition, she was Secretary for the Florida Flywheelers, an antique engine club.
Currently, DrJ is Secretary for the International Association of Metaphysics and serves on the Citizen Support Organization for DeLeon Springs State Park.