PRESBYTERY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Business and Financial Administrator
- Temporary Financial Administrator
Amber has served as a Business and Financial Administrator in a variety of church and small business settings over the last eleven years, including First Presbyterian Church in New Bern.
Christine works with the executive presbyter, stated clerk, and key committees to further the work and mission of the presbytery and PC(USA).
Job Titles:
- Member of Personnel Committee
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive to the
- Executive Presbyter
As Executive Presbyter, Bruce serves as: chief executive to the Presbytery; head of staff; pastor to and on behalf of the Presbytery; and Presbytery's representative at all Council levels.
Ed has served as a Minister of the Word and Sacrament in several churches in our Presbytery, including Pinetops, Western Blvd, and White Memorial in Willow Spring.
Ed is a Horticulturist and a Landscape Architect and enjoys all kinds of music, design and being with family. He also enjoys riding his bike, especially at the beach. He is married to Kathy Johnson and they have three grown children.
Job Titles:
- Temporary Associate Presbyter for Small Churches & Technology
In this role Katie supports the relational ministry of the presbytery with its congregations, particularly with congregations with less than 100 members. She does this by building networks among small churches. She also equips New Worshiping Communities in their growth and development. In the area of digital ministry, Katie coordinates and implements technology to support and extend the ministry and mission of the presbytery and its churches.
Katie is a graduate of Davidson College (B.A.) and Union Presbyterian Seminary (M.Div.).
Katie has served churches in Annapolis, Maryland and Washington, D.C. and spent several years managing conferences at the Montreat Conference Center where she welcomed hundreds of congregations, of all stripes and sizes, from across the PCUSA.
She lives in Raleigh, N.C. with her husband, two young sons and a barky dog. Katie enjoys road trips with her husband Sean, reading fiction, birding, and spending as much time outdoors as possible.
Job Titles:
- Member of Personnel Committee
Shauna is the first face that visitors see upon arrival to the Presbytery Office. In addition to greeting visitors, within the office Shauna manages the mail, office supplies and equipment, staff travel, the e-news layout, and database management. She provides administrative support to the presbytery's networks, grant management, and logistics of the presbytery's continuing education events.