Rev. Chapin Garner	Senior Pastor
Debbie Wheeler	Parish Administrator
Karen Harvey	Director of Music Ministry

Rev. Dr. Stephen Chapin Garner - Senior Pastor

chapingarner@verizon.net

Chapin is a 1997 graduate of Boston University School of Theology where he majored in theology and drama. From 1997 - 2000 he served as Associate Pastor of the Wellesley Congregational Church, where he worked primarily in youth ministry. Chapin founded and leads the Christ Clarion Fellowship, a national gathering of young clergy supported by the Louisville Institute.

Chapin is also a religious playwright, having had plays produced regionally, in New York, and in Boston. He is the author of Confessions and Taking Root (Baker's Plays, 1998/2000).

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Karen Harvey - Director of Music Ministry

kmhstar@aol.com

Karen Harvey was trained as a classical musician and came to the world of sacred music quite by accident, but has remained there ever since! She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music (Piano Performance), where she also studied conducting, composition and organ. Ms. Harvey is well-known to New England audiences as a solo artist and collaborative performer. She was twice awarded fellowships to the Tanglewood Music Center, and has been a featured soloist with the orchestras of Salem, Lowell, the Merrimack Valley and several universities.

She is a former faculty member at UMASS Dartmouth, the North Shore Conservatory, and Endicott College and is currently an Affiliate Artist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Additionally, she is the Music Director of Lowell's SRO Players and the Holiday Classics, an auditioned ensemble which sings 32 performances of holiday music at Faneuil Hall Marketplace between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Ms Harvey served churches of several denominations in Lowell and Waban before coming to Norwell in 1994.

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