Born and raised in Waynesboro, Virginia, Amy remembers being six years old, building a snow pile and preaching to the pine trees about an exciting story from the bible. Thankfully, God placed people in Amy’s life, sharing with her even more of God’s story!
Amy crawled under the pews and giggled through worship in the Free Methodist Church. When in middle school, wrestling with questions of suffering and prayer, Amy was invited by friends to a youth group lock-in at Basic United Methodist Church.
Because of Basic’s hospitality, heart, and hope, she kept going back. Through Christian Community, Amy experienced God’s life-giving and healing grace.
Since Amy left the pine trees of her front yard, she has had many transformative adventures. She double majored in psychology and religion at Mary Washington College. For a summer she served as waitress and a Christian Minister in the National Park in St. Mary, Montana. (There, in the trees, she preached tourists and to a woodpecker who attended every service!) For a year, through a program called Certified Pastoral Care, she cherished being the chaplain at John Umstead Psychiatric Hospital in Butner, North Carolina. In 2003, after graduating from Duke Divinity School, Amy served with the people of New Hope United MethodistC hurch on the Rappahannock District for five years. She is now grateful to be sharing and hearing God’s good news in this Shady Grove of smiling faces.
As an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, Amy’s ongoing call and vision for ministry comes from John 11. Serving is a celebration of the “Life and the Resurrection” in our midst, comforting, calling, and challenging.
