Quick Info about Barb:

Job at Crossroads: Associate Pastor 		 
  Favorite Crossroads Activities:
  • Helping people GROW! (through growth ministries including CrossWTraining, Small Groups, and Women’s Breakfast)
  • Getting the word OUT (through media presence, ads, press coverage; see news)
  • Managing the church calendar so we all still get to have lives!
 
  Family: Very happily married since 1980 to Jeff, a physician in Manchester; son Daniel (born in 1986) is in the Honors Program at the University of Delaware and son Jonathan (born in 1990) is an honor student at Glastonbury High School...and yes, I am very proud of them!  
  Training:
  • B.A. in English, Ursinus College
  • M.A. in Communication, University of Michigan
  • Licensed Minister with the Christian & Missionary Alliance
  • Certificate in Pastoral Counseling, St. Francis Academy for Clinical Pastoral Counseling
  • Certificate in Theological Studies, Bethel Seminary of the East
  • In progress: M.A. in Theological Studies with a Specialization in Bible, Bethel Seminary of the East (June 2009)
  
  Hometown: Greenlawn, Long Island, NY
Foreign Missions Work: Ecuador, Mexico, Honduras, Dominican Republic
Favorite Ministry Experiences: founding and directing a local church women's ministry, keynote speaking at retreats, sanding metal chairs for a mission church in Mexico, teaching Bible studies, marriage mentoring together with my husband, holding a hand to pray, leading small groups, preaching at home and away, seeing the light go on in someone's eyes, running a missions pharmacy without making anyone sick, directing and developing CrossTraining, opening God's Word to others
Hobbies: Surviving seminary! Hanging out with my husband and sons, going to the beach, sharing dinner with friends, playing Taboo!, snowshoeing
Greatest Surprise: Going back to school at this advanced age and discovering I still have a brain...Ok, no comments from the peanut gallery... 		  Books that Challenge Me: The Critical Journey: Stages in the Life of Faith by Janet Hagberg, Transforming Spirituality: Integrating Theology and Psychology by F. LeRon Shults and Steven J. Sandage, The Emotionally Healthy Church by Peter Scazzara, The Moral Vision of the New Testament by Richard B. Hays
Favorite Quote: "I wouldn't want to believe in a god that was small enough for me to understand." — G.K. Chesterton
Memorable Movies: Shawshank Redemption, Shrek, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and, of course--The Matrix I (I recommend the red pill)
Weird Factoid: I was a senior technical writer for the U.S. government at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant after the worst reactor accident in U.S. history...and no, I don't glow in the dark!





 

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