 Patrick McCollum was ordained in 1971 and has served as president of Our Lady of the Wells Church, a California Non-Profit Religious Corporation.He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Peace Service Center in Katmandu, Nepal, and has sat on the National Advisory Council of American’s United for the Separation of Church and State for nearly two decades.In 2008, Reverend McCollum served as an Advisor to the United States Commission on Civil Rights on a special report to Congress and the President of the United States, outlining problems and solutions to religious discrimination in U.S. prisons.