First
Presbyterian Church
Charlottesville, VA
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Personal Education 1982: Master of Divinity - Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. 1978: Bachelor of Arts - (Chemistry, History), Greenville College, Greenville, Illinois. Experience 1995-2002: Head of Staff, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Des Moines, Iowa. 1990-1995: Head of Staff, Wekiva Presbyterian Church, Longwood, Florida. 1986-1990: Associate Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 1983-1986: Pastor, Paxton Federated Church (UCC and PCUSA), Paxton, Illinois <top>
Responsibilities Personal Education Experience During her year at Cranford, Kim recruited, trained, and commissioned over 50 adult and youth lay volunteers for local mission opportunities. She also educated the congregation on a variety of local and global mission themes through her sermons, worship leadership, and adult course offerings. Believing that youth and young adults play a vital role to the mission life of the church, Kim began a new weekly youth ministry for 6th-12th grade students and recruited a group of young adult lay leaders to serve as youth advisors. While serving as an Intern, Kim also worked at a local ecumenical mission organization helping internationals in crisis apply for asylum. Kim’s ministry experience also includes a seminary internship at First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury, New Jersey, a hospital chaplaincy at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, and two years of young adult ministry at her home church, First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California. In addition to her domestic ministry experience, Kim also has a passion for international service. As an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, Kim served as a summer mission volunteer in Brazil. After college she also spent a year in Guatemala, where she ministered to rural Mayan youth and families. Kim’s ministry background is complemented by her four years of work experience in the social and health services prior to seminary. Her experiences include serving families with AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital and working as a management intern at a local social services agency. After learning Spanish in Guatemala, she provided Spanish-English medical translation for public health nurses and served the Latino community in the San Francisco Bay Area in a variety of volunteer capacities. <top>
A native of Haddonfield, New Jersey, Charles N. Pickell is a graduate of Juniata College in Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He has engaged in additional study at both Harvard University and Andover Newton Theological School, and has participated in summer programs at St. Andrews and Edinburgh Universities in Scotland and the University of Durham in England. Dr. Pickell served churches in Atlantic City, NJ and in the Pittsburgh and Boston areas before going to National Capital Presbytery where he ministered for 31 years in three different churches. He retired January 1, 1994. Charles and his wife Sally had a house built on Pantops Mountain and moved to Charlottesville in November 2000. He has been Moderator of Boston and National Capital Presbyteries and of the Synod of New England and chaired the Council of the Synod of the Virginias. In addition, he served on the Boards of Trustees of Westminster College in Pennsylvania and Gordon College, and Gordon Divinity School in Massachusetts, and was an adjunct professor at Gordon Divinity School. He was also an incorporator of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. He is the author of five books, and has written adult church school curriculum, as well as articles and poetry for Christian periodicals such as Christianity Today. For nearly thirty years he was a volunteer firefighter and chaplain for the Fire and Rescue Departments of Fairfax and Loudoun Counties. In retirement, he has served as Parish Associate at the Leesburg (VA) Presbyterian Church, and since 2001 at the First Presbyterian Church of Charlottesville. His duties as a part-time staff member at First Presbyterian Church include teaching adult classes on Sunday mornings, leading Wednesday morning and evening Bible Studies, preaching at the “Third Sunday” evening service and participating in the leadership of worship on Sundays. He has also organized and led several Presbyterian Heritage tours of Scotland as well as a Reformation Tour of the Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland. Charles and Sally have six grown children and ten grandchildren. <top>
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First Presbyterian Church |
Dr. Samuel R.D. Massey
The Rev. Kimberleigh
E. Wells
Dr.
Charles N. Pickell