Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Team

Chris was raised in Amarillo, TX, and grew up the son of a pastor. While he was raised around ministry, Chris had no clue that hospital chaplaincy existed until he embarked upon his graduate studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. Before graduating with his master’s degree in divinity in 2015, Chris spent a year working as a hospital chaplain intern. This is where he discovered his passion for spiritual care in a non-denomination hospital setting. Chris is passionate about providing spiritual and emotional support for all people of all spiritual backgrounds. Chris has completed four units of clinical pastoral education and is a board certified chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains. He also earned certification in hospital ethics consultation through the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) and has completed training as a hospice and palliative care chaplain. In addition to his work in hospitals, Chris is an ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church (USA). He enjoys leading worship in various churches when he is invited to speak or preach. After nearly 12 years in New Jersey, where he oversaw a hospital chaplaincy program, Chris and his family of five relocated to the Albuquerque area in 2024, where he joined the Presbyterian Health Spiritual Care team.

Lyla Meadows is a staff chaplain at Presbyterian Hospital, providing client-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally humble spiritual care to pediatric, maternity, palliative, adult ICU, and progressive care patients, family, and staff. She earned her master’s degree in divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she also first encountered chaplaincy as a chaplain intern at Bellevue Hospital. Lyla continued training as a chaplain resident for two years at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, completing a year at NYP/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and a year at NYP/Westchester Behavioral Health where she specialized in psychiatric spiritual care. Influenced by psychodynamic psychology, Andean cosmology, and Christian social ethics, Lyla supports patients of all backgrounds in (re)connecting to their unique selves, communities of belonging, and spiritual allies. To her, each visit is an opportunity to accompany others towards authentic acceptance of who you are at heart and in relationship to the world, or to borrow from the poet Mary Oliver, to help you “let the soft animal of your body love what it loves,” and “announce your place in the family of things.”

Chaplain Wolf Hillbo is an immigrant, a musician, and a Mennonite minister. He and his partner have four daughters in their mixed family, and a dog and a cat who seem to believe they are the same species. He has a diverse professional history, including working as a professional performing artist, opera singer, teacher, and vocal coach. He found his vocation for healthcare chaplaincy while serving as a paramedic.

Most of Wolf's formal education is in music, concluding with a dual master's degree in vocal performance and literature from the University of Notre Dame. He has held a handful of music and worship director positions since beginning his formal theological training in 2008. Since that time, he has also been a prolific contributor to teaching ministries in Christian and multi-faith contexts in the United States and Europe. He trained at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago and served as varsity sports chaplain for the North Park University Vikings. He completed his clinical pastoral education sequence with Ascension St. Thomas CPE-Consortium out of Nashville, Tennessee while serving as an associate chaplain in Ascension's Illinois area. He was an associate chaplain in seven Chicago area hospitals and was a staff chaplain in two of them. Before relocating to Albuquerque in 2023, Wolf was the Staff Chaplain devoted to behavioral health and staff relations at Ascension Saint Mary's Chicago, which is located in an under-resourced and underserved neighborhood on the city's West Side. He began serving with Presbyterian Health in 2024.

Donnel provides culturally sensitive spiritual care to patients, families and staff of diverse faith traditions or no faith tradition at Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital. Using music, art and Godly Play, he is passionate in facilitating multi-modal spiritual care support groups that are sensitive to the needs of neuro-diverse adolescents and adults in inpatient behavioral health. He earned his master’s degree in art and master’s degree in divinity in 2002 and completed his hospital chaplaincy internship/residency in San Francisco in 2003. He worked in student services, serving as a graduate school chaplain and as the dean of students for nine years, before returning to healthcare in 2015. He is married to an Episcopalian priest, an active lay leader, and has three children.

Tilia is an interfaith chaplain particularly dedicated to supporting the search for meaning/connection/personal growth, and consciousness expansion including along emotional, spiritual, cultural and personal lines. She is practiced in Shamanic Spirituality, Buddhism, Catholicism, Self-Realization Fellowship & Yoganada, New Thought Spirituality, ancient/current mysticism and other spiritual outlooks. Tilia is a licensed spiritual practitioner/assistant minister in Centers for Spiritual Living. In addition to greatly valuing personal connection, she also highly regards spirituality and energy in nature and animals.

SarbSarang is an ordained minister endorsed by Sikh Dharma International. She has been with Presbyterian since 2016 and is honored to have been serving at Santa Fe Medical Center since its opening in 2018. SarbSarang has lived in New Mexico since 1980 with her husband and mini Aussie, with family and Sikh community nearby.