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Interim Ministers at Trinity Starting July 1st
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Greetings in the name of Jesus, our Guide and Companion, to the people of Trinity! First, we would like to
offer our congratulations to Roy Fauth on his upcoming retirement after serving Trinity congregation for over
33 years. His faithful and diligent pastoral leadership is deeply appreciated by the Gettysburg Association,
Penn Central Conference, and the United Church of Christ. He is well deserving of a joyful, relaxing, and
adventurous retirement with Linda. We wish both of them all the best as they enter this new time for
themselves.
As Trinity enters a new phase in its history, there are many who have a sense of anxiety and uncertainty because of the change and the need for some time before there is a settled pastor serving the congregation, that is understandable since it is over 33 years since Trinity has been in this situation. We, Ken Heasley and George Heberling, have been hired by the Consistory to serve as your Interim Ministers, to assist you in continuing your ongoing ministry in a healthy and meaningful way and to assist you in celebrating your history while looking forward to the future of welcoming new pastoral leadership.
Ken was ordained in 1967, after graduating from Grove City College and Lancaster Theological Seminary.
Ken began his ministry at St. John's United Church of Christ in Powhatan Point, Ohio, a part of the Pioneer
Larger Parish (6 congregations in rural Monroe County in southeastern Ohio). From 1974 to 1982, he was
pastor of St Mary’s UCC-in Silver Run, MD. In 1982,-he began a 10- year pastorate in Catonsville, MD. From
1992 to 1996, he was Interim pastor at Trinity UCC in Manchester, Md. That was followed by an Interim at
Emmanuel UCC in Hanover, and then was called to serve as their settled pastor until his retirement in 2004.
Ken has served on Conference and Association Stewardship committees in the Ohio and Central Atlantic
Conferences throughout his ministry. From 2003 to 2011, he served on the Gettysburg Association Church and
Ministry Committee and currently is the chair of the Our Churches Wider Mission Ministry Team of the Penn
Central Conference. After retirement he was consultant to Trinity UCC, Hanover for strategic planning, and is
The After Care Provider for Panebaker Funeral Home, providing grief support to families and individuals.
George was ordained in 1973, a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and Lancaster Theological
Seminary. He began his ministry as Associate Pastor of Glenside United Church of Christ outside Philadelphia, while also serving as the Protestant Chaplain at American Ontological Hospital affiliated with the Fox Chase Cancer Research Center. From 1975 to 2002 he served as the pastor of The Jordan Charge in Herndon, Pennsylvania. In 2003 he began to serve as pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Biglerville, retiring at the end of 2010. He served on the Dakota Association Penn Central Conference Partnership Committee for 19 years, and also served on the Gettysburg Committee on Ministry from 2003 to 2010.
Ken will serve as the congregation's administrator during the interim time, responsible for the office and
closely involved with the process of helping the congregation establish its vision and hopes and dreams for the
future. .
George will serve as the pastor of visitation and crisis counseling.
We will be sharing worship responsibilities on a Sunday morning. Together we will be working with the
committees and organizations within the congregation to maintain the ongoing ministry of Trinity. Also
together we will work with the Consistory in the decision making process.
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We ask for your support and your prayers as together we begin a new situation at Trinity. May God bless each
of you as you remember that in the midst of all change our God is a constant source of guidance, support, and
love.
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ANN WALSH, Christian Education Director
Music and children have been major elements in Ann Walsh’s life. She has been singing since a child, overcoming extreme shyness with music. High school and college brought the world of theater, and with it numerous roles, such as Ado Annie in “Oklahoma” and Hope Langdon in “Something’s Afoot”, and leading roles in “Vanities” and “Bye Bye Birdie”, to name just a few. At Messiah College Ann sang with several gospel music groups and headed a small traveling music ministry team, as well as a children’s ministry team that traveled to Scotland School for Veteran’s Children weekly. Directing became an interest and Ann directed numerous children’s theater productions as well as traveling performances of one-acts and musical reviews.
Ann continued to act, direct, and sing, doing work with a variety band as she began teaching elementary school. Marriage brought 3 children and much less time to pursue theater and music. Teaching dance and musical theater at the studio that her children attended gave her more time to do what she loved best. Several productions, one original and “You Can’t Take it With You”, were done as Ann moved on with her life. She also continued to direct, especially children’s theater productions, including “Little Red Riding Hood”, and “Cats and Bats”, for which she wrote the songs for the show. In 1998 Ann became the Christian Education Director for Trinity UCC. In between shows and Sunday school activities, Ann found time to present various educational topics at the National Reading Recovery/Early Literacy conferences in Columbus, Ohio for 12 years.
After the death of her 14 yr old daughter due to a car accident in 2004, Ann used her love of music to heal. She continued to sing in a variety band, wrote music and poetry for bereaved parents, and became active in The Compassionate Friends, a support group for those who have lost children at any age. Several presentations Ann has done at National TCF conferences included how to use music to help heal and move forward in grief, and she is active with the sibling program on the National level.
Currently Ann sings with a variety band, “One More Time”, teaches Kindergarten in the Conewago Valley School District, is active in the Adams County Arts Council, local Compassionate Friends support group doing newsletter/public relations/awareness and planning memorial programs, is Director of Christian Education and sings in the Trinity church choir, works with children in various types of counseling, creative and performing venues, and is active on the “Fringe” committee of the annual Gettysburg Festival.
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JOHN MCKAY, Senior Choir Director
Having served several denominations, John McKay has over thirty years of experience as a church musician. After graduating from the University of Richmond with a B.A. in voice, he earned his M.M. in choral conducting at the Eastern Kentucky University. He has also done extensive graduate work at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and at the Catholic University of America. Interestingly enough, although John spent a number of years as a cantor and music director in the Greek Orthodox Church, his introduction to liturgical worship occurred forty years ago while singing in the choir of a large U.C.C. church in Richmond, VA. He has never forgotten that spiritually enlightening experience and he is grateful for Trinity’s continuing recognition of the importance of quality music to the liturgical expression of worship.
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JANE EIKER, Organist
Organist Jane Eiker a lifelong member of Trinity, is a retired elementary school teacher. She holds a graduate certificate in church music from Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA and a Masters of Arts in Ministerial Studies with a concentration in church music from the Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg. She is a member of the American Guild of Organists and the UCC Musicians Association.
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AUDREY BLACKSTONE, Assistant Organist
When Linda had the cherub choir, she asked me to be the pianist because my daughter was singing in the choir. This is how I started playing at Trinity. When Alice Snyder was going to retire, she thought I should play the organ. She was my mentor. So at the early service, I played on alternate Sundays with Dora Mae Hartman. When Dora died, no one came forward to replace her so I have been doing this ever since. Sometime in 1990, to give Joan Eiker a Sunday off, I started playing for the 10:30 service and here we are…...
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CALLY KRUGER, Church Secretary
I grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey, attended college and became an elementary school teacher in Bergenfield NJ. After marrying, my late husband Bud and I raised 2 daughters and when our youngest graduated from Ithaca College, we decided to move away. We thought we’d move in with my mother (a recent widow) in Gettysburg and then decide where we wanted to go from there. We lived for 11 years with my mother and when she became afflicted with Alzheimer’s, my four sisters and I needed to sell her house so Bud and I moved to McSherrystown. I worked as a Receptionist Supervisor at the Brethren Home for 12 years and suddenly my job was eliminated and so was I. Don and Ann Walsh heard I was unemployed and when an opening here for secretary occurred, the rest is history. My passion is working as a corner worker at amateur sports car races and I am still doing that at least one weekend a month from April to November. I have three grand boys in NJ and love to see them, and also I grew up at and still enjoy the NJ shore, but not the group on TV! I love my job here at Trinity and will stay as long as you’ll have me.
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| WILLLIAM "BILL" HARTLAUB, SEXTON |
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| LISA REINOEHL, HOUSEKEEPER |
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For Pastoral Services/Emergencies:
Paster Heberling and Pastor Heasley will be available as needed Sept. 1 - 22.
Pastor Heasley will be away Sept. 23-28.
Pastor Heberling will be away Oct. 5 - 9.
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