Marilyn and her husband Barry love living in the Redding woods. Their daughters are officially out of the nest now. Emily is fearlessly hacking her way through the jungle of corporate market analysis... draining the swamp of high-budget advertising... reintroducing the long-extinct species of clear thought to the islands of poor product planning based on the DNA of rationality found in prehistoric mosquitoes trapped for millenia in the amber of design-by-committee...(thanks to her friend John, for this apt description).
Chloe graduated NYU in May 2010, with double majors in philosophy (logic) & sociology. She plans to teach English in Hungary next.
Marilyn graduated from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in the 1970’s. She holds a master’s degree in Geology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she studied the chemistry of ocean island lavas from the Azores. She graduated in 1998 magna-cum-laude from Yale Divinity School, with a Master of Divinity degree, and from General Seminary in New York City in 2000 with a Master of Sacred Theology degree in spiritual direction.
Marilyn loves ministry at Christ Church and is excited to see new families and lots of little children. Her favorite activity is visiting people who are confined to their homes in order to share Holy Communion with them. At home in the rectory, she loves to sit by the fire, play in the garden, and romp with her two cats.
Martha Meyer began her work with us as Music Minister at the end of October, 2007. She was for fifteen years the Music Director at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Bridgeport located in Stratford. Martha enjoys providing music in the Classical tradition on the organ, and she is looking forward to expanding our repertoire with our new digital piano. In her other life Martha is also a jazz pianist and teacher of piano students. She has four grown children and lives down the hill in Redding. Welcome, Martha!
Meredith McClung began her ministry in children’s Christian education when she was 14: she had been caught reading a James Bond thriller behind her pew sheet during the sermon. Her father felt she needed to be allowed to participate more actively in church life and asked the Christian Education Director of their church if she could assist in the church school classroom. Between then and now she has spent 24 years in church school classrooms assisting, teaching and coordinating. Since graduating from college in 1974 with a degree in psychology, she has spent the last 30-odd years learning about the real world. Meredith and her very supportive husband Tim, have two boys, ages 20 and 16. She continues to learn from them and others around her what really matters.
Karen came to Christ Church in the summer of 2002. Her responsibilities include producing the Sunday bulletin, the directory and the annual report; posting contributions, tracking income and expenses, and making sure the bills are paid on time. She is here to answer the phones Monday through Thursday 9am to 2pm.
Staff
Rector: The Reverend Marilyn Anderson
Music Minister: Martha Meyer
Director of Children's Ministries: Meredith McClung
Verger: Joey Davey
Parish Administrator: Karen Romanelli
Nanny: Dionne Boisvert
Officers
Warden: Laura Russell
Warden: Mel Crannell
Treasurer: Marianne Crew
Clerk: Frances Kimball
Convention Delegates
Connie Borofsky
Carol Keil
Laura Russell, Alternate
Mel Crannell, Alternate
Vestry
2011 Marshall Metzger
2011 Ellen Perrott
2011 Bob Kloss
2011 Audrey Dance
2012 Ann Crocker
2012 Gretchen von Dwingelo
2012 Jack Ryder
2012 Eric Stones
2013 Deborah Stevens
2013 Eileen Wilkinson
2013 James Fleming
2013 Renee Ruder
Marilyn and her husband Barry love living in the Redding woods. Their daughters are officially out of the nest now. Emily is fearlessly hacking her way through the jungle of corporate market analysis... draining the swamp of high-budget advertising... reintroducing the long-extinct species of clear thought to the islands of poor product planning based on the DNA of rationality found in prehistoric mosquitoes trapped for millenia in the amber of design-by-committee...(thanks to her friend John, for this apt description).
Martha Meyer began her work with us as Music Minister at the end of October, 2007. She was for fifteen years the Music Director at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Bridgeport located in Stratford. Martha enjoys providing music in the Classical tradition on the organ, and she is looking forward to expanding our repertoire with our new digital piano. In her other life Martha is also a jazz pianist and teacher of piano students. She has four grown children and lives down the hill in Redding. Welcome, Martha! 
Meredith McClung began her ministry in children’s Christian education when she was 14: she had been caught reading a James Bond thriller behind her pew sheet during the sermon. Her father felt she needed to be allowed to participate more actively in church life and asked the Christian Education Director of their church if she could assist in the church school classroom. Between then and now she has spent 24 years in church school classrooms assisting, teaching and coordinating. Since graduating from college in 1974 with a degree in psychology, she has spent the last 30-odd years learning about the real world. Meredith and her very supportive husband Tim, have two boys, ages 20 and 16. She continues to learn from them and others around her what really matters.
Karen came to Christ Church in the summer of 2002. Her responsibilities include producing the Sunday bulletin, the directory and the annual report; posting contributions, tracking income and expenses, and making sure the bills are paid on time. She is here to answer the phones Monday through Thursday 9am to 2pm.