Sunday Worship
8:00 am Contemporary Worship in the Upper Farnham Hall
10:30 am Holy Eucharist, Rite II in the Sanctuary
7:00 pm Taizé Service
Weekday Services
Tuesdays, 7:00 am, Eucharist for Peace & Justice
Thursdays, 10:30 am, Eucharist at Memorial Apartments
Jesse Milan, Jr., JD is a lifelong Episcopalian with a record of service to the church at national, diocesan and parish levels. During his seventeen years in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, he was elected twice to represent the diocese as a Deputy to General Convention (1994 and 1997) where he chaired the House of Deputies Committee on the Consecration of Bishops. He served two terms on the Pennsylvania Diocesan Council (1989-94) and on the Council Executive Committee, was elected to two terms as Diocesan Church Advocate (1988-94). He served on the search committees for the Suffragan Diocesan (1987) and the Bishop Coadjutor (1996). At St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia, he was on two rector search committees, served nine years on the Vestry, chaired the grant-making Outreach Committee, and served three years as Rector's Warden. At the national level, he served two terms on the Church Deployment Board and was president of the board of the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition. Since coming to the Diocese of Maryland and Memorial Church in 1998, Jesse has co-chaired Memorial's Rector Search Committee (1999-2000), co-chaired the Capital Needs Committee (2004), served on the Vestry (2001-2004), and was elected to the Diocesan Ecclesiastical Court (2002-2004). He is also and active usher and lector. Memorial knows Jesse especially for his work with Memorial Players as Harold Hill (The Music Man, 2006), as the calypso singing brother (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 2003), and as choreographer for CATS (2007). A lawyer and global HIV/AIDS thought leader, Jesse is Senior Principal for Health Policy and Promotion at SRA International, Inc. He and his partner, Bill Roberts, live in Ellicott City and will celebrate 20 years together in 2008.
Emerging from his cradle into the maelstrom that was the Episcopal Church of the 1970’s, Jason immediately felt at home in that conflicted but caring and conscientious environment. Years of Acolyting, confirmation, and summer camp soon followed… In high school, Jason served the Diocese of Atlanta thru the Diocesan Youth Commission, and as a councilor at Camp Mikell. College activities included chairing the Canterbury Executive committee—the oversight group for Episcopal college activities in the southeast, as well as serving on the inaugural staff for the summer camp program in the Diocese of Chicago. After college Jason remained actively involved in the church. At his home parish of Saint Bartholomew’s in Atlanta, he was actively involved with outreach programs, especially the annual “Olde English Festival", a fundraising weekend extravaganza not dissimilar from Memorial’s own “Bolton Hill Festival”. He also served on the board of directors of Camp Mikell, and continues to support that ministry from afar. He counts, among his closest friends, the Rt. Rev. Stacy Sauls, Bishop of Lexington—who also happened to be his mentor on the Diocesan Youth Commission and, later, the rector of Saint Bartholomew’s. Jason has been well raised to—and prepared for--an active adult life in the church, having watched his father serve on the vestry of 4 churches across 3 states, and having watched his mother serve many years as a church organist. Jason’s college background in political science and philosophy somehow prepared him for a career in the cutlery trade. In 2002 this career brought him to the Baltimore/DC area. After much searching, that move also brought him to the marvelous community that is Memorial.
Rick has been a member of Memorial Episcopal Church since late 2000. Raised in the United Methodist Church in Richmond and Newport News, VA, Rick has taken his father's lead and has served on and chaired the Building & Grounds Committee for (3) years since joining Memorial. Rick also was on The Reverend Rosemary Beales' Parish Lay Committee.
As well as "serving" as a chalicist and as an usher, Rick spent a short period of time on the Vestry and is ready to serve again as his business travel demands have eased. He is honored to have been nominated to serve as a Vestry member again and is excited by the challenges and demands of this growing Memorial community.
Rick and his wife Cyndie reside in Ten Hills with Emma, the greyhound and Sam, the cat.
Lois Eldred is relatively new to Memorial Episcopal; she was baptized and confirmed here in 2006. Before finding her home at Memorial, Lois and her family attended several area churches; this included a number of years at First and Franklin Street Presbyterian Church. Lois serves as an usher, lector, and member of the Flower Guild. Lois has assisted in teaching Sunday School. She also worked the "props" in the Memorial production of Music Man and was a chorus caterwauler in last year's production of CATS. Lois is a member of the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease where she is involved in community-based research studies of tuberculosis and HIV in South Africa, Zambia and Brazil. She is also a physician assistant who sees patients in the Baltimore City Tuberculosis Clinic. Lois lives in Catonsville with her husband, Earl Huch, and their daughter Melissa. They share their home with a yellow lab, Shiloh and gray cat, Jasmine.
Jesse Milan, Jr., JD is a lifelong Episcopalian with a record of service to the church at national, diocesan and parish levels. During his seventeen years in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, he was elected twice to represent the diocese as a Deputy to General Convention (1994 and 1997) where he chaired the House of Deputies Committee on the Consecration of Bishops. He served two terms on the Pennsylvania Diocesan Council (1989-94) and on the Council Executive Committee, was elected to two terms as Diocesan Church Advocate (1988-94). He served on the search committees for the Suffragan Diocesan (1987) and the Bishop Coadjutor (1996). At St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia, he was on two rector search committees, served nine years on the Vestry, chaired the grant-making Outreach Committee, and served three years as Rector's Warden. At the national level, he served two terms on the Church Deployment Board and was president of the board of the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition. Since coming to the Diocese of Maryland and Memorial Church in 1998, Jesse has co-chaired Memorial's Rector Search Committee (1999-2000), co-chaired the Capital Needs Committee (2004), served on the Vestry (2001-2004), and was elected to the Diocesan Ecclesiastical Court (2002-2004). He is also and active usher and lector. Memorial knows Jesse especially for his work with Memorial Players as Harold Hill (The Music Man, 2006), as the calypso singing brother (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 2003), and as choreographer for CATS (2007). A lawyer and global HIV/AIDS thought leader, Jesse is Senior Principal for Health Policy and Promotion at SRA International, Inc. He and his partner, Bill Roberts, live in Ellicott City and will celebrate 20 years together in 2008.
John Rowell moved to Baltimore with his partner James Blue and children Alden and Effie in the summer of 2006, and he and his family have been active in the parish life at Memorial since their arrival. Raised in northern Vermont, where he served as the organist of his rural church from the age of 13 until he left home to attend Amherst College, John has been a regular churchgoer his entire life. He is a past member of St. Michael's in New York City, St. John's Lafayette Square and Christ Church Georgetown in DC, and St. Botolph's Aldgate (where he served on the Parish Council) and St. Mary Abbots in London. John sings tenor in the Memorial choir.
Professionally, John has worked for the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP since 1992 and currently supports the firm's business development initiatives in Europe.
Lynne Durbin became a regular participant in Memorial Episcopal services in the fall of 2007 and was received into the Episcopal church in the spring of 2008. Formerly, she was a Roman Catholic and attended services at the Cathedral. She has found Memorial to be a wonderful spiritual home, filled with very loving and caring people. Lynne serves as an usher and lector and will soon be assisting as an acolyte.
The Memorial Players brought Lynne to the church when her son, Christopher Mergen, wanted to try out for “Cats” and Ann Mladinov made a convincing argument for parents participating in the plays with their children. Since then, she and Christopher have performed in “Mame” and look forward to performing in “The Sound of Music” in the spring.
During the time she does not spend at Memorial, Lynne is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Adhesives Research, Inc., a global manufacturer of specialty adhesives and films. She is also active on the boards of The Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, the Parks and People Foundation and Network 2000.
Lynne lives in Ruxton with her husband of 25 years, John-Francis (JF) Mergen, and their son, Christopher. Two cats, Purr and Present, round out the family. Lynne and JF are both pilots and enjoy taking trips in their small plane to interesting places around the mid-Atlantic region.
Louise has been a member of Memorial Church since 1969 when she moved into Bolton Hill and returned to the Church via the Contemporary Eucharist.
She has served in many roles at Memorial Church, including parish librarian; acolyte (1st woman); verger; lay reader/lay chalicist (1st woman); Vestry member; Registrar for Vestry and Parish (parish archives); member or chairperson of various committees such as committees for parish interns or people feeling called to ordained ministry. For several years she has been involved with the Pastoral Care Committee and its varied activities.
Her experience at the diocesan level includes being Memorial’s delegate to the annual Diocesan Convention and, in 2007, becoming a member of the Commission on Ministry of the Diocese of Maryland.
Professionally, Louise spent years in the Baltimore County Public Schools, first as a teacher, later as a Library/Media Department Chairperson. Retiring from the school system, she became involved with Listening Hearts Ministries as a trained discerner, a trainer of trainers, and as Program Coordinator.
Trained at Shalem Institute, Louise offers spiritual direction to accompany people on their spiritual journeys.
Louise’s life experience is that God’s call comes when we least expect it and we often can’t imagine living it out, but we still must pay attention to it. After all, God is full of surprises!
After eight years of apprenticing to organbuilders, David Storey moved to Baltimore in 1983. He quickly took a position as organist at Church of the Holy Evangelists in East Baltimore where he played the oldest working organ in the city for twelve years. Raised in upstate New York as a Presbyterian, he subsequently joined the Episcopal Church and became junior warden at Holy Evangelists. When the diocese closed the church, he moved to the bench at Old Otterbein UM Church where he had just restored the historic 100 year old organ. David continued in that post for six years. Upon retiring from playing in church, David joined Memorial Church in 2001. He assisted the Memorial Set and Stage Masters in the construction of Memorial’s great stage. David is godfather to Diamond and Damone Johnson who frequently join him on Sunday mornings for Sunday school.
David has owned and operated his organ-building and service business in Baltimore for more than twenty years. He resides but a short minute’s walk from Memorial Church in Bolton Hill with his partner of 18 years, Marvin Mills, who he first met at an organ recital. David works throughout the mid-Atlantic region providing building, tuning, maintenance, and sudden emergency repair during late-night worship services for the King of Instruments.
Barbara Cates came to Memorial Church in 1981 after a seventh-month sojourn at the Taizé Community in France, and has been an active member ever since. She and her husband, storyteller Matthew-Daniel Stremba, were married at Memorial in 1986. In 1989 she joined the U.S. Foreign Service as an economics officer, and has been posted to Moscow, USSR; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Tashkent, Uzbekistan; and Yekaterinburg, Russia. Barbara recently completed a three-year assignment at the State Department as Deputy Director of the Office of International Religious Freedom. Currently she is assigned to the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science, coordinating environmental policy with the Middle East and South and Central Asia.
A trained Listening Hearts discerner, Barbara served on Memorial Church’s Vestry in the late 1990s and again from 2006-2009, and as junior warden this past year. Barbara worships primarily at the early service, which she loves for its creativity, shared reflection time, and supportive community. She also leads the singing at our weekly Taizé prayer service. Barbara and Matthew live with their friend Hadicha in Bolton Hill, a few blocks from church, and an eight-minute walk from the train station. Barbara also maintains an ecumenical connection with Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church across the street, where she is a deacon and sings in the choir.
He was baptized, confirmed and married to Lynne at Memorial. He was an acolyte every Sunday from the time he could carry a candle until he went to college. After college at Washington and Lee, he has been an usher. Andy has been the head of the Endowment Committee for the past two years. He is a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney, having been at Legg Mason for 25 years prior to being traded to Smith Barney. Lynne and Andy have two children Robbie and Katie at Gilman and RPCS. He was on the board at Gilman for 4 years where he was head of annual giving. I was elected to the vestry mid term August of 2009 and have assumed the role Co chair of the Finance committee with John Timson as the other co. A great blessing for Memorial!
Mary Goodwin began attending Memorial Episcopal services in the summer of 2005. She was baptized and confirmed into the Episcopal Church in the spring of 2008. Mary is currently a member of the Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee. She has also previously assisted with the set construction activities to support the performance by The Memorial Players of "Cats", "Mame” and “The Sound of Music.” In her professional life Mary serves as an Associate General Counsel for the business unit of Verizon Communications, a global telecommunications services company. Mary currently lives in Columbia with her partner of 11 years, Nora Adams. Two cats, Sangria and Riesling, round out the family. Mary and Nora find Memorial to be an uplifting spiritual home with a diverse community of supportive and gifted people. Mary is honored to have been nominated to serve on the Vestry.
Before coming to Memorial, Stacey was very involved in youth programs in the Diocese of Georgia and at the Episcopal Center at the University of Georgia. When she moved to Maryland, she took a two-year hiatus from church due to the hecticness of her life during graduate school. Stacey started church shopping after graduating from Univ. of Baltimore in 2006, and found Memorial sometime in 2007. She attended sporadically until August 2007, when she became a regular attendee. After quickly getting involved with the young adults, Stacey participated in the 2008 Inquirer's class and became a true member of Memorial by reaffirming her Baptismal vows in May 2008.
After that, Stacey became involved in many areas of worship and service at Memorial. She briefly taught Sunday School, has served as one of the leaders of the youth group since 2008, serves as a lector and lay chalicist, and currently holds the position of Missioner for Christian Formation for Children and Youth. She also made her Memorial Players debut as Annie Sullivan in the 2009 Gracious Virtues performances. Stacey has also worked with the Diocese to bring the international Episcopal youth retreat Happening to Maryland, which will be having its second weekend in 2010.
Outside of Memorial, Stacey works as a freelance graphic designer and substitute teacher. She is also back in school at Towson Univ. pursuing a second bachelors degree in English and a masters degree in Teaching. Ultimately, she wants to teach high school English, journalism, and yearbook. She is also the founding President of the current University of Georgia Alumni Association, Baltimore Chapter, and spends most of her fall Saturdays watching football.
Stacey is very excited to have been nominated to the Vestry, and looks forward to the experience of serving in this ministry.
