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Pastor
Rev. Dr. Dewey E. Gierke

pastorgieke@embarqmail.com
 

                                                                                                                                                                                  

 

 

 

 

       

                                    


Organist/Pianist/

Choir Director

Dr. Helen Gierke
 

htg_thd@yahoo.com

 

 



Helen and Dewey have been married for over 25 years.  She has 30+ years
of choral/music teaching experience in a variety of churches and with
students of all ages.  Her education includes a Bachelor’s degree in music
education, a Master’s degree in sacred music, and a Doctorate in liturgy
and theology.  She is currently organist/choir director at First Congregational.

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 


Secretary

Terri Sanders
 

1stcongregational@

embarqmail.com

 

 

 

 

    Terri was born in Penn Yan, N.Y. but moved to Ft. Myers with her parents and two younger brothers when she  was 10 yrs. old.                                
    She is a 1965 graduate of  Bishop Verot High School the first graduating class of that school. 
She has two children,  a boy and girl, neither are married but live here in town. Her daughter fosters children and she has just adopted a handsome redheaded  3 year old boy. Her son has his own property management business and is also a Fishing Charter Captain.
    Terri has had only had two jobs in her lifetime besides this one. In high school she worked at McCory's 5 & 10 and then after graduation went to work for the local phone company where she performed many different functions in the management field.  She remained there for 43 yrs., till they closed the local call center, just in time for her to take early retirement. 
    She is a member and volunteer of  Messiah  Lutheran Church. Loves spending time with her grandson, and/or one of  the foster children and her dog. She never pass up shopping, a movie, or dinner out .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pastor Dewey (shown here taking water from the River Jordan) has been
 in ministry since 1991, having worked in the forestry industry prior to entering
seminary.  He earned his Master's of Divinity at Bangor Theological Seminary.
Bangor, Maine, and a Doctor of Ministry from Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT. 
 He formerly served at Florence Congregational Church, Florence,
Massachusetts, for 13 years.