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Meet our Sabbatical Coverage Pastor: Rev. Emily Kellar
We want to welcome Rev. Emily Kellar to our congregation as a coverage pastor during Rev. Burhans’ sabbatical from July 1st through October 12th. Rev. Kellar will be on-call when needed for July and August while Rev. Maeve and Maggie Keeler continue to be available throughout the week and lead worship on summer Sundays. Then Rev. Kellar will lead Sunday morning worship in September and part of October and continue to be available for pastoral needs during that time. We had a nice introduction to Rev. Kellar at worship on June 8th and we know the congregation will appreciate her presence in collaboration with the MInistry Team while Rev. Burhans is away. She can be reached at emkellar@gmail.com or on her cell at 781-264-8339. Here is a little more about her:Rev. Emily J. Kellar is from Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. There she met her future husband, David, a native of Duxbury. After living in both North and South Carolina, Rev. Emily, David and their three children moved to Duxbury in 2004, where they had spent many summers visiting David’s family. Their daughter Emma and her wife, Autumn live in the Boston area and are both civil engineers. Emma and Autumn have a four-year-old son, Nathan. Rev. Emily and David’s older son, Edward, is a marine mechanic and lives in Duxbury. Their younger son, Ross and his wife, Meaghan are relocating to the Boston area this summer with their one-year-old son, Cadogan.
Rev. Emily holds a Master of Divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School. She is a member of the Jonathan Edwards Society, Andover Newton’s honors society. Rev. Emily is ordained in the United Church of Christ. She completed her Clinical Pastoral Education with Hebrew Senior Life in Roslindale, MA. She is a certified educator in the United Church of Christ, Southern New England Conference. Rev. Emily has served the Pilgrim Church of Duxbury, UCC and the Congregational Church of South Dartmouth, UCC. Rev. Emily serves on the board of Back Bay Mission, a ministry of the UCC in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Rev. Emily enjoys playing tennis, needlepointing, reading and walking.
