{"id":81,"date":"2013-01-29T14:55:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T14:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2024-04-04T17:45:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:45:41","slug":"about-our-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/?page_id=81","title":{"rendered":"Pastor & Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastor – Rev. Zachary Mabe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contact by email: \u00a0zackmabe@hotmail.com<\/a>\u00a0or by Facebook: \u00a0Zack Mabe<\/a><\/p>\n

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Education and Background<\/span><\/h6>\n
Pastor, Terryville Congregational Church, August 2005 – Present<\/h6>\n
B.A. (Major in Religion & Philosophy) – Catawba College (Salisbury, NC) – May, 2000<\/strong><\/h6>\n
M.Div. (Master of Divinity)- Yale Divinity School (New Haven, CT) – May, 2003<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Ordination:\u00a0 Ordained June 8, 2003 at 1st Ref. United Church of Christ (Lexington, NC)<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Previous Ordained Pastoral Work:\u00a0 Pastor (part-time), Pilgrim Congregational Church (New Haven, CT) –\u00a0 September, 2003 to June, 2005.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h6>\n
S.T.M. (Master of Sacred Theology, Focus in Liturgy & Homiletics)- Yale Divinity School –\u00a0 May, 2005<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Originally from North Carolina, Rev. Zack moved to Connecticut in August of 2000 to attend Yale Divinity School.\u00a0 After graduating with two degrees from Yale, Rev. Zack came to our church in August of 2005.\u00a0 Previous to graduation from Divinity School, Zack also served congregations in North Carolina (working as Youth Director at Peace UCC in Greensboro during his college years), Connecticut (serving as a supply preacher at South Lyme Union Chapel in Old Lyme, CT during his Divinity School years), Massachusetts (working as a summer pastor in Mt. Washington, MA during his Divinity School summers of 2001, 2002, and 2003), and another in Connecticut (part-time Pastor of Pilgrim Congregational Church in the Fair Haven section of New Haven, from 2003-2005).\u00a0 Zack is married to Melissa and they have two boys, Joshua & Connor.\u00a0 Zack believes in the love of God in Jesus Christ, the power of prayer, the wonder of music, and the gift of laughter. Zack also serves on the Farmington Valley Association of the Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ Committee on Ministry.\u00a0 Zack is also currently working on completing a Doctor of Ministry degree.<\/p>\n

Christian Education Director – Jennifer Zalaski, A.C.E.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contact by email: \u00a0johnzalaski@sbcglobal.net<\/a><\/p>\n

\"jennifer<\/a><\/p>\n

Ms. Jennifer has been with our congregation since 2002. \u00a0A native of Terryville, Ms. Jen has and continues to be active both at church and in the community, for example recently having served on our town’s Board of Education. \u00a0Ms. Jen has an Associates in Christian Education from our Connecticut Conference, United Church of Christ. \u00a0In addition to church, Ms. Jen enjoys time with her husband, John, and two sons, Jonathan and Justin.<\/p>\n

Director of Music – Paul Bilodeau<\/strong><\/p>\n

In November of 2022, we welcomed Paul Bilodeau as our new music director!\u00a0 Picture and Bio coming soon!\u00a0 Contact by email:\u00a0 lownotespaul@gmail.com<\/p>\n

Church Secretary – Tracy Fitzpatrick<\/strong><\/p>\n

In January of 2020, we welcomed Tracy Fitzpatrick as our new church secretary.\u00a0 Picture and Bio coming soon!<\/p>\n

Contact by email: \u00a0terryvillechurch@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor – Rev. Zachary Mabe Contact by email: \u00a0zackmabe@hotmail.com\u00a0or by Facebook: \u00a0Zack Mabe Education and Background Pastor, Terryville Congregational Church, August 2005 – Present B.A. (Major in Religion & Philosophy) – Catawba College (Salisbury, NC) – May, 2000 M.Div. (Master of Divinity)- Yale Divinity School (New Haven, CT) – May, 2003 Ordination:\u00a0 Ordained June 8, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}