Dear Friends, 

I share with you some information about myself, my family and my ministry. I am a “jersey girl.” I was born the oldest of 4 children in Hackensack (North Jersey).  As a child I lived in the Edison area until my dad’s company moved out to Long Island.  I spent 10 years out there, coming back to New Jersey to attend Drew Theological School in 1979.

Don Brash was the first person I met at Drew (I didn’t like him at first).  We were married in the seminary chapel in August 1981.  I graduated in 1982 and went to my first appointment as pastor of Wesley & Saint Paul’s United Methodist Churches, in Roselle.  Don continued with his PhD work at Drew.

In June of 1985 I was ordained as an Elder in the Northern New Jersey Annual Conference and a few weeks later Don was ordained as a pastor in the American Baptist Churches of New Jersey.

In 1987 I accepted my second appointment in Dunellen.  While serving in Dunellen our daughter Leah was born.  Shortly after that Don accepted a “call” (Baptist term) to serve as pastor of the Hamilton Sq. Baptist Church.

We moved to Hamilton Sq. in 1990, and while in Hamilton, I served as pastor of the Lower Bank and Green Bank United Methodist Churches and then as Chaplain at Mercer County College and finally for 8 years as Associate Pastor at Saint Mark United Methodist Church.  During this time Don began teaching at what is now Palmer Theological Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa.