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After graduation, I attended the College of William and Mary and decided towards the end of college to enter the ministry, enrolling at Princeton Seminary. While at Princeton, I met and married my husband, Gordon. I was ordained a Lutheran pastor in 1984, and served an urban congregation in New Jersey for 10 years. In 1995, our family moved to a small college town in rural western Pennsylvania where Gordon assumed a position in college fund-raising.
From this base of operation, Gordon continues to work as a development officer, though now for the University of Pittsburgh. Across our time in western PA, my work has included serving on staff at the local Lutheran congregation, as campus pastor at Thiel College, and on the staff of the NWPA Synod (ELCA) as Assistant to the Bishop for Social Ministry Concerns. I completed my Master of Sacred Theology degree in 2004. Since 2005, I have served as the chaplain at Bethesda Children's Home in nearby Meadville. There I am the pastor to 76 teenagers from Pennsylvania's inner cities who come for residential treatment of behavior problems and mental health concerns.