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The
Rev. Jeanne Madsen, Senior Pastor We
welcomed our newest Senior Pastor on February 1, 2012!
Pastor Jeanne is a Minnesota native and lifelong Lutheran
who has served congregations in Nebraska, Alaska,
Minnesota and North Dakota. She has served both Lutheran
and Episcopal congregations, and holds a Master of
Divinity from Luther Seminary. |
| Pastor Jeanne was ordained in 1997 and
is pursuing a ph.D. in congregational leadership in
her spare time. Her hope and goal in ministry is that
people will more fully know Jesus and have a close
relationship with Him. A graduate of St. Olaf College,
Pastor Jeanne served as a congregation youth director
for 13 years before entering seminary. Her gifts and
passions include youth and family ministry, recruiting
and equipping leaders, evangelism and mission, and
building a sense of community. Pastor Jeanne is engaged
to be married, and plans to marry her fiance, Tom,
at Good Shepherd. She has a son, Joey, and daughter,
Aimee, from a previous marriage, and two granddaughters,
Alex and Kaitlyn. |
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Deborah S. Woods, Director of Music
Debby was born in Baltimore, where she took her first music lessons at Peabody Preparatory and her first organ lessons at First English Lutheran Church, her family's home congregation. She graduated from Hollins College in 1970 with a degree in music history and settled in Crofton, where she raised a family of three children (Christine, Jennifer, and James) and taught music in Anne Arundel County Public Schools. |
Debby completed her Master of Education from the University of Maryland in 1975. Upon retiring from the school system in 2004, Debby traveled to Trinity Seminary in Columbus, OH, where she completed a master's degree in church music in 2006. Debby lives in Timonium and is excited and challenged by the many avenues in which our music ministry may develop and grow. |
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