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Welcome
to our new minister...
On Sunday
July 3, 2005 we are pleased to welcome our new Pastor,
Reverend Peggy E. Fabrizio. Pastor Peggy comes to us
from the First United Methodist Church in Walton, New York,
where she has been pastor for the past 3 years. She has
also been working part-time with The United Methodist Frontier
Foundation in White Plains, New York as a consultant since
March 2004. Peggy graduated from Drew Theological School,
Magna Cum Laude, in 1999 and since then she has also been
the pastor in Coxsackie, NY and Pine Plains, NY.
The
Staff Parish Relations Committee related to our District
Superintendent George Engelhardt, our needs and desires
as a church community for our next pastor. We discussed
the wonderful and talented "family" we have here
at Fairfield Grace and the many outreach programs we support.
We expressed our desire for a leader who could recognize
those talents and motivate our "family" to better
serve each other, our community and the Lord. We also sought
someone who could meet the challenges we face as we look
to our future growth. After meeting Pastor Peggy we all
felt she would be the person to meet our needs here at Fairfield
Grace.
Pastor
Peggy has had another career before attending Drew University.
She taught school in the elementary grade levels in New
York State and raised two children. She has a daughter Lori
and a son Michael, who is married to Dawn. They both live
in eastern New York.
Pastor
Peggy has unique experience as a lay leader in the church
having served as parish treasurer, financial secretary,
administrative council chairperson, and lay member of annual
conference, trustee and a member of pastor/parish relations
committee. She will surly be able to understand the many
jobs and responsibilities here at church. She has a special
interest in counseling and has obtained 6 credits in Clinical
Pastoral Education.
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