About Me

Bio

I was born in Ellicott City, MD, but raised in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. A lifelong Presbyterian, I grew up in the church, learning to love God and God’s family.

After high school, I attended Sweet Briar College, and first discerned my call to ministry. While at Sweet Briar, I explored my love for all things ancient, majoring in Classics and minoring in Religion, Art History, and Medieval-Renaissance Studies.

After Sweet Briar, I enrolled at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, pursuing my Masters of Divinity. During my third year, I served as the full-time Intern Minister of First Presbyterian Church in Henderson, North Carolina, a joyful experience that confirmed for me my call to parish ministry. Following this internship, I completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. I graduated from seminary in 2016.

I was ordained into the PC(USA) in June of 2016, and am currently serving as the solo pastor of Crescent Springs Presbyterian Church in northern Kentucky. 

I live with my wonderful husband, Erron, in a house filled with half-finished DIY projects. First and foremost, I love God, but I also get pretty excited about worship and liturgy, chocolate, travel, graphic design, and musicals!

Call

The heart of my call is worship. I am passionate about proclamation, liturgy, sacrament, and artistic expression, and the way worship functions as the hingepoint between God’s grace and our grateful response. My time in seminary only deepened my love for worship, and my passion has helped me to develop my gifts and skills for worship leadership as well.

I feel primarily called to small church ministry, although I am open to God’s surprises. I believe strongly in the small church as the center of robust, relational ministry, and have been blessed to serve in three such churches. 

I believe that the church can be the body of Christ on earth, healing, teaching, loving, feeding, and yes, sometimes breaking, that all may know the power of God’s fierce and forever love. I seek to grow alongside a church as we learn how better to be members of that body together.

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