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Judy was born and raised in Maine, although for most of her adult life, she served overseas. Previous to becoming a pastor, Judy served with the Christoffel Blind Mission, a German mission working with projects serving vision, hearing and physically impaired individuals. Based in Nairobi, Kenya Judy was responsible for over 100 projects in East Africa from Egypt to South Africa. She also worked an interim period of time in Germany with the same mission administratively in charge of English-speaking missionaries - by obtaining visas for various countries, arranging housing and enrolling missionary children in various school settings.
Returning from the mission field, Judy attended the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, SC and became ordained in 1997. She returned to Africa with the ELCA Global Mission - first as a seminary intern in Zimbabwe, followed by language training in Burkina Faso (West Africa) before continuing on to her assignment in the Central African Republic where she was a member of a team training pastors. She taught Christian Education and church history at the seminary in Baboua, CAR.
Her last six years overseas, Pastor Judy served in the only English-speaking country in South America, Guyana. Her primary position was Director of Christian Education for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana (ELCG) while her “secondary” position was serving as pastor of a five-point parish. During those years, she trained a team to take over from her in the Christian Education Dept and trained a pastor to take over her parish after her departure.
All during the years of serving with the ELCA’s Global Mission, much of her support came from the SC Synod churches. Now in her “non-retirement” years, Pastor Judy is serving the Walterboro/Ehrhardt Parish where she says, “I’m so blessed and honored to be able to serve some of those who were so generous and loving to me all those years when I was so far away! I’ll only be able to return a fraction of what was so generously given to me! Your generosity was truly overwhelming.”
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